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Journalist and content editor with 20+ years specialising in public policy. Still learning.

Ryedale DC will not explore the option of legally challenging the Government’s decision to replac...

Young people are still being put at risk by an ineffective child safeguarding process, experts ha...

Children were ‘pawns in a toxic power game’, according to the report of the Independent inquiry i...

Kingston RLBC learned lessons from its COVID response that will change both the jobs staff do in ...

Local government needs a ‘funding floor’ at an agreed percentage of national income, a report on ...

It is ‘absolutely critically important’ that children’s services are at the table in discussions ...

Children’s minister Vicky Ford has praised the ‘moral leadership’ of Norfolk CC in taking on sign...

The independent review of children's social care ‘must go further and be part of a coherent and s...

In April, Slough’s independent children’s services trust became wholly owned by the council. Josi...

Death rates from COVID-19 in Greater Manchester are 25% higher than in England as a whole, says a...