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NCASC
NCASC: Only '6-10%' of children's home registration applications meet criteria
By Ann McGauran | 13 November 2026
Only a small proportion of providers’ applications for children’s home registration meet prioritisation criteria, the chief inspector of Ofsted has said.
PEOPLE
London chief exec brings forward retirement
By Martin Ford | 13 November 2026
Haringey LBC chief executive Andy Donald has brought forward his retirement.
NCASC
NCASC: Councils should commission homecare visits around smaller 'footprints'
By Ann McGauran | 13 November 2026
Councils should move away from purchasing individual homecare visits across large areas and commi...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Havering leader calls for exceptional financial support debt to be written off
By Dan Peters | 13 November 2026
Reform UK-led Havering LBC has called on the Government to cancel the council’s outstanding emerg...
NCASC
NCASC: Neighbourhood health put too much focus on 'metrics'
By Ann McGauran | 12 November 2026
Neighbourhood Health has put too much focus on ‘metrics’ instead of making clear how councils and...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Exclusive: LGA shelves statutory climate duty
By Dan Peters | 12 November 2026
The Local Government Association (LGA) has shelved work on a statutory climate change duty for co...
SEND
Fears of SEND reform pace slackening
By Martin Ford | 12 November 2026
Fears have been raised over the pace of reform of services for children with special educational ...
NCASC
NCASC: Inaction on profiteering could risk early intervention cash
By Ann McGauran | 11 November 2026
The financial case for rebuilding early intervention could be undermined by lack of national acti...
REORGANISATION
Rayner admits LGR was 'always going to be litigated'
By Martin Ford | 11 November 2026
Local government reorganisation (LGR) was ‘always going to be litigated’, Angela Rayner has said ...
NCASC
NCASC: State of adult social care 'disorientating'
By Ann McGauran | 11 November 2026
The leader of England’s adult social care chiefs has compared the current state of services as ‘d...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
EXCLUSIVE: Too few adult social care directors for new unitaries, ADASS warns
By Neil Merrick | 11 November 2026
There may not be enough directors of adult social services to lead all the unitary councils being...
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