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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Specialist staff training aims to safeguard vulnerable youngsters

28 January 2009

Local authorities this week began specialist training for those staff who will be co-ordinating W...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

'At risk' skillset in doubt at Ofsted 7

21 January 2009

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Social workers face intense retraining following Baby P

14 January 2009

Children’s secretary, Ed Balls, has launched a Whitehall-based plan to improve children’s service...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Our social responsibility to social workers after Baby P

14 January 2009

If we want to attract and keep people to work as social workers, we need to give them respect for...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Child deaths lead to top-level probe

14 January 2009

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Ofsted future hit by Baby P

17 December 2008

Whitehall and local government officials have warned Ofsted must raise its game after the problem...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

SOLACE hits out at inspection regime

11 December 2008

Local government chiefs have hit out at the inspection regime – and the Laming report – in the a...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Ofsted asks councils to check child data

10 December 2008

Ofsted has vowed to go ahead with its annual league tables for children’s services, despite calli...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

What next for inspection?

10 December 2008

As the Government and inspectorates struggle to ensure the Baby P tragedy will not be repeated, P...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Inspectorates face flak in Baby P fallout row

08 December 2008

The fallout from the case of Baby P at Haringey LBC has spread to the inspection system and the w...