CHILDREN'S SERVICES
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 of their liberty, a minister announced today.
FOSTERING
Call for Government to fix 'broken' children's social care
By Ann McGauran | 10 July 2025
Urgent action is needed to fix a ‘broken’ children’s social care system and give all young people...
PREVENTION
Changing childhood: Listening, understanding, responding
By Helen Lincoln | 08 July 2025
In the context of a new era of child-centred government and local government reform, the findings...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Preventing abuse from happening must be our ultimate goal
By Rachael Wardell | 04 July 2025
As leaders of children’s services prepare to gather for their annual conference next week, Rachae...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Tameside rejects shortlisted candidates to replace Stewart
By Emily Twinch | 24 June 2025
Crisis-hit Tameside MBC has decided not to proceed with any of the applicants it had shortlisted ...
SAFEGUARDING
Councils need to step up and get a grip on CSE
By Heather Jameson | 19 June 2025
There has been political inaction across the major parties on child sexual exploitation, spanning...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Councils warned to be 'open to scrutiny' in grooming gangs inquiry
By Martin Ford | 17 June 2025
There has been a ‘collective failure’ to address questions about the ethnicity of perpetrators wh...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Councillors press minister on SEND costs
By Martin Ford | 06 June 2025
A minister was pressed on financial challenges posed by children’s services when she appeared bef...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
'More to do' on diversity in DCS roles
By Joe Lepper | 22 May 2025
Diversity among children’s services chiefs has improved over the last year, but ‘there is still m...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Enter the matrix
By Colin Foster | 22 May 2025
As councils embark on local government reform, Colin Foster presents a matrix to support better o...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Auditors call for action on delays to children's care cases
By William Eichler | 21 May 2025
The proportion of children who are subject to care proceedings who have had to wait over a year t...
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