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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Learning from tragedy
By Debbie Jones | 26 March 2024
Debbie Jones looks at the lessons emerging from an independent review focused on the children fou...
ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDRENS SERVICES
Sticking plasters for a wound
By John Pearce | 20 March 2024
Short-term funding and decision-making does not solve the underlying issues surrounding children’...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Meeting the needs of London's care leavers
By Matt Raleigh | 20 March 2024
The Pan London Care Leavers’ Compact is only the start of the journey to better support care-expe...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Mission impassable
By Ann McGauran | 20 March 2024
After the DfE’s about-turn over its own consultation for councils to end the use of agency social...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
A first step in tackling abuse
By Mark Conrad | 20 March 2024
As the Government finally moves to introduce mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse, councils ...
WHITEHALL
Government 'may have underestimated' mandatory reporting impact
By Mark Conrad | 19 March 2024
The Home Office may have underestimated the additional number of child sexual abuse (CSA) cases w...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Tackling poverty in the North of Tyne: A combined approach
By Adrian Dougherty | 15 March 2024
Patience has been key to a North of Tyne Combined Authority programme addressing child poverty, i...
HEALTH
Judgment day
By Mark Conrad | 13 March 2024
Kent and Home Office face growing pressure over asylum-seeking children.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
New funding: A helping hand for care leavers
By Cllr Richard Kemp | 12 March 2024
The Care Leavers’ Programme provides a backbone of support for young adults and the benefits will...
SOCIAL CARE
Children's services commissioner appointed at Tameside
By Martin Ford | 12 March 2024
A commissioner for children’s services has been appointed at Tameside MBC in the wake of a watchd...
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Executive Director of Place and Customer
up to £179,404 per annum
Shape the Future of Essex. Drive climate action. Deliver for our communities. Apply for this job
Director of Social Work and Social Care
£100,731 to £104,625
You will join a values-driven senior leadership team, providing visible and responsive leadership. Apply for this job
Housing Ombudsman
£130,095 per annum, negotiable based on experience.
The Housing Ombudsman Service allows colleagues to choose if they wish to work in the London office, from home or a hybrid of the two Apply for this job
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