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Boarding home closures prompt council response
By Mark Conrad | 30 March 2021
Councils have been called on to help accommodate children with special educational needs after tw...
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Intervention at Blackpool to end
By Martin Ford | 15 March 2021
A commissioner has recommended intervention in children’s services at Blackpool Council should co...
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Intervention ends at Reading
By Martin Ford | 09 February 2021
Government intervention in Reading Council’s children’s services has come to an end after five ye...
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Medway's children's services commissioner is stood down
By Ann McGauran | 01 February 2021
Medway Council will continue to run its own children’s services after the independent commissione...
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Warwickshire bid to bring its children back into the fold
By Cllr Jeff Morgan | 20 January 2021
A Warwickshire CC-operated children’s residential care home is in the pipeline. It will bring tho...
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West Sussex to keep control of children's services for at least a year
By Laura Sharman | 11 December 2020
West Sussex CC will keep control of its children’s services for at least another year following i...
SOCIAL CARE
Ofsted warns of unseen child abuse
By Martin Ford | 26 November 2020
Opportunities to protect children at risk of harm are being missed due to the pandemic, Ofsted ha...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Helping councils defuse the early years ticking time bomb
By Tom Symons | 16 November 2020
Nesta has launched a new programme of Early Years Innovation Partnership, and is seeking councils...
OFSTED
Ofsted warns of COVID impact on SEND support
By Martin Ford | 09 November 2020
The pandemic has ‘seriously affected’ support for special educational needs an disabilities (SEND...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Spike in child abuse
By Martin Ford | 06 November 2020
Ofsted’s chief inspector has warned of an increase in the number of child injuries and deaths unc...
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- London borough chief to retire
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- MHCLG praises council capability on housing
- MHCLG's questions about structural change orders threaten relationships in Gloucestershire
- Exclusive: Rural and urban council funding 'more or less' the same
Executive Director of Children’s Services (DCS)
£149,000 – £175,000
This is a defi ning leadership opportunity in a borough with real momentum Apply for this job
Registered Manager - Children's Home - WMF2945e
£51,356 - £52,413 (plus an additional market factor supplement of £7,842)
Are you looking for a role that offers more than just career progression? Apply for this job
Director of Quality and Safeguarding
£100,731 - £104,625
Trafford is a borough with ambition at its heart. Apply for this job
- London borough chief to retire
- Exclusive: Reorganisation 'heaps further pressure' on children's leadership
- MHCLG praises council capability on housing
- MHCLG's questions about structural change orders threaten relationships in Gloucestershire
- Exclusive: Rural and urban council funding 'more or less' the same
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