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SOCIAL CARE
Academics highlight recruitment and retention problems
By Mark Conrad | 05 February 2018
Councils require greater clarity over how their social care market-shaping and commissioning duti...
SOCIAL CARE
Government migration funding formula 'unfair'
By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 February 2018
The council accommodating the second-highest number of asylum-seeking children in the UK has crit...
FINANCE
May could be defeated on council finance
By Dan Peters | 01 February 2018
Tory MPs have warned the Government they are willing to mount a rebellion over the finance settle...
SOCIAL CARE
Social workers mad at a TV drama need to relax
By Claire Fox | 30 January 2018
Channel 4’s social work-centred drama Kiri has been swept up in a Twitterstorm, with social worke...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Croydon to act on missing children
By Mark Conrad | 29 January 2018
Police officers will be placed inside Croydon LBC as part of an initiative designed to tackle the...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Further deterioration of Sandwell's children's services
By Mark Conrad | 29 January 2018
Sandwell MBC has failed to improve its Ofsted rating for children’s social care and is still mana...
SOCIAL CARE
Judge's warnings over care proceedings
By Mark Conrad | 22 January 2018
Councils should ‘think long and hard’ before embarking on care proceedings against ‘otherwise uni...
WHITEHALL
Inspector arrives amid reorganisation pressure
By Mark Conrad | 16 January 2018
An independent inspector today began investigating Northamptonshire CC’s precarious finances amid...
HEALTH
Welsh councils welcome health and social care review
By William Eichler | 16 January 2018
Welsh local authority leaders have welcomed the publication of a report into the sustainability o...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Child referred to social care every 49 seconds, figures reveal
By Laura Sharman | 12 January 2018
Referrals to council children's services reached 646,120 last year, according to new figures from...
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