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CHILDREN'S SERVICES

The influence of dual perspectives in children's social care

By Craig White | 11 September 2025

Craig White looks at how dual perspectives can change thinking in children's social care

SEND

Overdiagnosis straining SEND system, think tank says

By William Eichler | 28 August 2025

A new report has warned that England’s special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system i...

SOCIAL CARE

Two-thirds of councils lack safeguarding policy for gender-questioning children

By William Eichler | 27 August 2025

Nearly two-thirds of councils with care responsibilities could not provide a policy on safeguardi...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Back on track for families

By Jeanette Richards | 18 August 2025

When Jeanette Richards took up her executive director of children’s services’ post at Bury Counci...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Reshaping the landscape for our children

By Andy Smith | 15 August 2025

As children’s services face a series of overlapping reforms – not least local government reorgani...

FAIR FUNDING

Fix the flawed children's funding formula

By Michael McVicker | 15 August 2025

Michael McVicker explains why the proposed children’s social care funding formula is unfit for pu...

REORGANISATION

Reorganisation plans to include social care partnerships

By Martin Ford | 04 August 2025

Councils will have to set out plans for partnership working in social care as part of reorganisat...

FINANCE

'Serious issues' over fair funding formula

By Martin Ford | 01 August 2025

A key part of the proposed Fair Funding formula must be removed due to ‘serious issues’, London C...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Putting children front and centre

By Cllr Hannah Dalton | 23 July 2025

The District Councils’ Network has joined with the Staff College to create a route map for counci...

DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK

DCN: 'Essential' role of districts in setting up new children's services

By Martin Ford | 23 July 2025

District councils will be ‘essential’ to establishing new children’s services through local gover...

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Ashfield District Council

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