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John Cooper
John Cooper is a fostering recruitment specialist at CAN Digital – an advertising agency delivering digital campaigns with the public sector for the past decade – and previously worked in foster carer recruitment for two local authorities and a children's trustArticles by John Cooper
Awakening of a sleeping giant
By John Cooper | 10 January 2024
Ambition, opportunities and green technologies. South Derbyshire DC has huge potential and is wor...
National children's placement strategy required to remove 'profiteering'
By John Cooper | 13 December 2023
The president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services has called for a national pl...
The more things change
By John Cooper | 11 December 2023
Funding and asylum policy are just two of the themes that have bookended an eventful year in loca...
AI's tipping point
By John Cooper | 04 December 2023
How will artificial intelligence change local government and the lives of residents – and can the...
No quick fix as challenges grow
By John Cooper | 04 December 2023
Ann McGauran reflects on last week’s NCAS conference, where the general mood was of determination...
NCASC: 'Watch this space' on spiralling cost of children's placements
By John Cooper | 30 November 2023
The sector should ‘watch this space’ for an announcement from the Government on the spiralling co...
NCASC: Social care 'doing a good job' getting investment
By John Cooper | 30 November 2023
Those working in adult social care are ‘already doing a very good job at getting investment and c...
Labour must 'grasp the nettle' early on social care costs
By John Cooper | 30 November 2023
Labour will ‘have to grasp the nettle fairly early on’ if it wins the General Election about the ...
NCASC: Sector 'slow in making strong case to Treasury for social care cash'
By John Cooper | 29 November 2023
The sector has been slow in making a robust case for social care funding from the Treasury, says...
NCASC: Government must make 'some difficult decisions' on children's services
By John Cooper | 29 November 2023
The Government must make ‘some difficult decisions’ if it is ‘not able or willing’ to provide fun...
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