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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Auditors bid to explain real cause of difference in councils' spend on kids
By Chris Mahony | 23 January 2019
A nine-fold variation in spending on children’s social care could largely be down to ‘differences...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Warnings of 'bun fights' and help offered to Hancock at conference
By Martin Ford | 14 November 2018
Funding woes dominated the opening speeches of the National Children and Adults Services conferen...
WHITEHALL
Troubled Families funding could be extended beyond 2020
By Martin Ford | 14 November 2018
Funding for the Troubled Families programme could continue beyond 2020 after it was found three-q...
FINANCE
Kid's care on a cliff edge
By Martin Ford | 13 November 2018
Following a report by ADCS that initial contacts made to children’s social care have increased by...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Three quarters of English councils to cut early help for children
By Martin Ford | 07 November 2018
Early help services for children will be cut or reduced by almost three quarters of English counc...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
SENDing a message to government
By Ann McGauran | 05 November 2018
With two councils awaiting the outcomes of judicial reviews into their plans to cut back spendin...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Fostering opinion
By Rachel Dickinson | 08 August 2018
Rachel Dickinson reacts to recent Government activity reviewing fostering activity across the cou...
FINANCE
Funding call to end 'postcode lottery'
By Martin Ford | 11 July 2018
MPs today called for more funds to help end a so-called postcode lottery for children’s services.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Ofsted to evaluate inspection framework, ADCS conference told
By Martin Ford | 06 July 2018
The way children’s services are inspected is itself to come under scrutiny, senior officers have ...
FINANCE
Education secretary appears at ADCS conference for first time in a decade
By Martin Ford | 06 July 2018
Provision for care leavers and children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) do...
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