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SEND
SEND reforms fail to account for transport costs, say MPs
By Lee Peart | 06 March 2026
Government special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms fail to take account of burgeoning home-to-school transport costs for local authorities, a committee of MPs has warned.
ADCS
Why we must respond to online risks
By Rachael Wardell | 05 March 2026
Adults, practitioners, parents and policy-makers must engage actively with the challenges and ris...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Call for new funding model for kinship care
By Ann McGauran | 05 March 2026
A sector expert has called for kinship care to have its own policy, legal framework and funding m...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Three wishes to transform children's care needs
By John Pearce | 05 March 2026
There are challenges endemic across children’s care nearly four years on from the MacAlister revi...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Reorganisation is an opportunity to switch to a more preventative system
By Caroline Green | 03 March 2026
Caroline Green says reorganisation must be more than ensuring safe and legal transition or one co...
CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY
CIPFA warning over profit capping reforms
By Dan Peters | 23 February 2026
Financial oversight and profit capping reforms to the children’s residential care market may fail...
DATA & DIGITAL
Reaping the benefits of collaboration on technology and innovation piece by piece
By Eddie Copeland | 11 February 2026
There is a powerful logic to making intelligent use of data, technology and a wide range of trans...
ADCS
Children's placements: The case for national leadership and local delivery
By Rachael Wardell | 10 February 2026
Rachael Wardell says investment in not-for-profit, locally-led provision – with a clear framework...
FINANCE
Balancing optimism and realism in Wokingham
By Susan Parsonage | 10 February 2026
Susan Parsonage looks at how the revised financial settlement will impact local authorities such ...
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
Total Place requires total trust
By Lisa McNally | 09 February 2026
Councils can expand the Total Place ethos by joining up often fragmented policies and programmes,...
SAFEGUARDING
Protecting children from risks outside the home in Bucks
By Cllr Carl Jackson | 09 February 2026
A new pilot in Buckinghamshire taking practical steps to tackle the risks from exploitation faced...
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