CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children's social care reform must be more than money
By Heather Jameson | 20 November 2024
Heather Jameson says the education secretary has called for financial transparency and power to intervene on contractors' profiteering in children's social care. 'Good ideas, and handy for headline...
SEND
MPs sound alarm on SEND deficits
By Martin Ford | 19 November 2024
Deficits in SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) budgets are among the top concerns ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children's social care faces 'biggest overhaul in a generation'
By Martin Ford | 18 November 2024
The Government has announced a slew of children’s social care reforms, including new responsibili...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Room to thrive
By Martin Purbrick | 14 November 2024
Martin Purbrick explains how an imaginative solution to a growing problem will enable the council...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
A 'no magic bullet' plan for improving young people's lives
By Jonathan Rallings | 12 November 2024
Last year councils overspent more on children’s services than on any other area. Dominic Luscombe...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Young people 'biggest losers' from current children's services system, say councils
By Dan Peters | 12 November 2024
Thousands of youngsters were placed in council care more than 20 miles away from their home last ...
PREVENTION
Public services must welcome partnership and prevention
By Emmet Regan | 06 November 2024
Social care is pointing the way towards the use of working in partnership to deliver public servi...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Unprecedented interest in council's fostering offer
By Julie Kelly | 28 October 2024
Hillingdon LBC’s new payment and benefits package for foster carers, the most competitive of its ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
NAO: Councils face bankruptcy due to SEND deficits
By William Eichler | 24 October 2024
Two-fifths of local authorities will face the threat of bankruptcy if more is not done to tackle ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Sure Start Centres reduced criminal offending, says IFS
By Emily Twinch | 23 October 2024
Young people who had lived near a Sure Start centre between the age of 0 to 4-years-old were 20% ...
POLITICS
Labour intervenes at Tameside
By Martin Ford | 11 October 2024
The leader of Tameside MBC has resigned after Labour took steps to directly intervene over ‘unacc...
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