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Where every person can belong
By Rachael Wardell | 10 December 2025
Rachael Wardell says ending the two-child benefit cap is a welcome step. Mental health must now become a national priority.
SOCIAL CARE
The cost of improvement in children's social care
By William Burns | 02 December 2025
William Burns says that improvement to children’s social care is both complex, costly and long te...
NCASC
NCASC: Children's minister pledges to 'reinvent' fostering
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
The children’s minister has pledged to expand and ‘reinvent’ fostering to reverse the ‘expensive...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Ofsted to drop headline 'one word' judgement for children's services inspections
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
Ofsted has confirmed plans to change inspections of local authorities’ children’s services (ILACS...
NCASC
Profit cap on children's placement providers 'won't be worth the paper it's written on'
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
Any profit cap on providers of children’s placements in England ‘won’t be worth the paper it’s wr...
NCASC
Counting care costs
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
Councils continue to face steep rises in the cost of care in both children and adult services. As...
NCASC
Fixing the family support gap
By Mary-Alice Doyle | 27 November 2025
Camden LBC is launching a powerful, data-driven model designed to pinpoint low-income families mo...
NCASC
NCASC: Hike in working age adults needing support is due to dysfunctional system
By Ann McGauran | 26 November 2025
A forty per cent hike in the number of working age people needing support by 2030 is the ‘predict...
NCASC
NCASC: Risk of spreading children's resources 'too thinly'
By Ann McGauran | 26 November 2025
The lack of a national strategy for children means there is a risk of resources being ‘spread too...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Review finds council failures ahead of Sara Sharif murder
By William Eichler | 14 November 2025
Children’s services in Surrey failed to identify abuse suffered by 10-year-old Sara Sharif before...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Using system-wide reform to put Bucks families first
By Errol Albert | 13 November 2025
Buckinghamshire Council is delivering system-wide reform through locality teams, Family Hubs and ...
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