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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...
ADCS
LGR could put service improvement at risk, says ADCS leader
By Ann McGauran | 16 July 2025
Local government reorganisation could put the delivery of better services for children and famili...
ADCS
ADCS Conference: £53m for new DoL placements
By Ann McGauran | 10 July 2025
The Government has allocated £53m to create 200 new council-run placements for children deprived ...
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- Chiefs take charge
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- Chiefs take charge
- Government's fiscal devolution roadmap sparks fears over Treasury control
- Unai Emery's brilliance provides a great blueprint for local government finance leaders
- Two-thirds of councils facing a live equal pay risk
- Councils question financial sustainability and timescales of SEND reforms
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