ASYLUM
Home Office cuts UASC incentive payments
By Paul Marinko | 10 April 2025
The Government has reinstated an incentive scheme for councils accepting the transfer of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) but cut the rates on offer.
LEGISLATION
Schools Bill criticised by commissioner
By Emily Twinch | 27 January 2025
The children’s commissioner has criticised Labour’s schools Bill, arguing it does not include det...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Jay distances herself from fresh inquiry calls
By Dan Peters | 06 January 2025
The former head of a national inquiry into child sexual abuse has warned against ‘politicising’ t...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Investment in school nurseries is welcome, but is no panacea
By By Rachael Shimmin | 01 November 2024
The Government must ensure opportunities arising from investment in early years reach children an...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Money is tight, but ambition is greater
By Matthew Gordon | 24 October 2024
The challenge facing public finances is severe, but it should not get in the way of ambitions for...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
How's the income pilot going in Wales?
By David Westlake | 24 October 2024
David Westlake and Zoe Bezeczky reflect on the early findings from the Basic Income for Care Leav...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
The next steps
By Cllr Lisa Evans | 20 August 2024
Cllr Lisa Evans explains how care-experienced young people are already seeing the benefits of Sto...
ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDRENS SERVICES
Call for 'cross-government plan for childhood'
By Martin Ford | 12 July 2024
The new Government’s approach to child poverty ‘doesn’t go far enough’, the president of the Asso...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
All change please
By Thomas Bridge | 20 July 2016
HS2 is not the only change hitting Birmingham in the coming years. Mark Rogers and Cllr John Clan...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Morgan's education review 'business as usual'
By Sam Clayden | 13 July 2016
A new government consultation into the role of councils in education and child safeguarding has b...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
MPs tear apart social work reforms
By Sam Clayden | 13 July 2016
MPs have torn apart the Government’s social work reform plans and called for greater coordination...
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