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WHITEHALL
Call for national mental health support team rollout
By Ann McGauran | 18 September 2023
A top children’s services director has called for the ‘very highly regarded’ mental health suppor...
ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDRENS SERVICES
EXCLUSIVE: Questions over child age assessments
By Martin Ford | 25 August 2023
Council directors have raised doubts over Government plans to take over age assessments of unacco...
WHITEHALL
Pearce renews prevention call amid CAMHS spiral
By Ann McGauran | 14 August 2023
England’s top director of children’s services has called for a greater focus on prevention amid s...
WHITEHALL
Home Office hotel use for lone child asylum seekers 'unlawful'
By Dan Peters | 28 July 2023
The High Court has found the Home Office’s use of hotels to house lone child asylum seekers to be...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Exploitation warning after Illegal Migration Bill becomes law
By Dan Peters | 20 July 2023
Unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) could be in danger of being exploited after the Ille...
ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDRENS SERVICES
'Not acceptable' to treat age disputed young people as spontaneous arrivals
06 July 2023
It is ‘simply not acceptable’ that age disputed young people from asylum hotels are treated as sp...
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INTEGRATION
ADCS head calls for local funding model for children's mental health
By Ann McGauran | 05 July 2023
The head of England’s children’s services chiefs has called for a new place-based funding model f...
SOCIAL CARE
We need creative solutions for all our children
By Ann McGauran | 04 July 2023
Ann McGauran sets the scene ahead of this week’s Association of Directors of Children’s Services ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
We need a national placements strategy
By John Pearce | 19 June 2023
Councils are using non-secure provisions supported by a deprivation of liberty order as necessary...
SCRUTINY
Standing up for the vulnerable
By Ann McGauran | 25 April 2023
The Association of Directors of Children’s Services’ new president John Pearce speaks to Ann McGa...
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