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SOCIAL CARE

Southport Inquiry: Councils face challenge to prevent future attacks

By Martin Ford | 23 April 2026

Councils face a challenge to prevent future attacks such as those in Southport that claimed the lives of three schoolgirls, children’s services directors have warned.

INEQUALITY

London is a city becoming increasingly unequal for those raising children

By Indi Miller | 09 April 2026

London’s ‘child-free’ centre is creating an increasingly unequal experience of growing up in the ...

SERVICE DELIVERY

Designing public services that work

By Ravi Gurumurthy | 16 December 2025

Increasing take-up and participation is not always easy, but progress can often be made quickly, ...

NCASC

Fixing the family support gap

By Mary-Alice Doyle | 27 November 2025

Camden LBC is launching a powerful, data-driven model designed to pinpoint low-income families mo...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Creating a haven home for children

By Stephen Evans | 27 November 2025

Windsor & Maidenhead has invested £1.8m in its first home for young people, dramatically cutting ...

BUDGET 2025

Budget: Two-child benefit cap lifted

By Martin Ford | 26 November 2025

Abolition of the two-child benefit cap in today’s Budget has been welcomed as a ‘first step’ in t...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Start as you mean to go on

By Dawn Plimmer | 15 September 2025

Best Start in Life Plans could be a once in generation opportunity, argues Dawn Plimmer of Collab...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

The influence of dual perspectives in children's social care

By Craig White | 11 September 2025

Craig White looks at how dual perspectives can change thinking in children's social care

SEND

LGA calls for EHCP scale back amid potential backlash

By Emily Twinch | 10 July 2025

Local authorities have called for the scaling back of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) de...

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...

SEND

Spending Review: Silence on SEND reform

By Martin Ford | 11 June 2025

Councils will have to wait until the autumn for details of reforms to services for children with ...