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...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

New ADCS chief calls for cross-government children's plan

18 April 2023

The new president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has reiterated hi...

BUSINESS

'Significant concerns' over regional care cooperatives

By Martin Ford | 23 March 2023

Regional care cooperatives (RCCs) will not resolve the issues around child care placements, counc...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Solving the SEND puzzle

By Steve Crocker | 07 March 2023

We must press Government to not lose sight of the key principles in the Schools White Paper if we...

WHITEHALL

Children's social worker numbers drop for first time since 2017

By Paul Marinko | 27 February 2023

The Government has been urged to act after official figures showed the number of children’s socia...

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