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High-performing councils could register children's homes, suggests Labour peer
CHILDREN'S SERVICES

High-performing councils could register children's homes, suggests Labour peer

By Ann McGauran | 03 November 2026

Allowing local authorities that perform well under the Ofsted inspection framework to register children’s homes would speed up the process, a former Downing Street chief adviser under Prime Ministe...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Children's social care inquiry reveals system strain and reform

By Martin Ford | 16 October 2026

A picture of a system under strain emerged as a wide-ranging inquiry into children’s social care ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Transforming children's services through devo

By Emmet Regan | 13 October 2026

Emmet Regan explores whether Rewiring the State can deliver meaningful change for those who depen...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Council changes approach to providers after contract collapse

By Joe Lepper | 13 October 2026

Croydon LBC has pledged to be ‘clearer’ with children’s services providers ‘about what we want se...

POLICY AND POLITICS

'A denial of democracy'

By Heather Jameson | 08 October 2026

Commissioner-led intervention is ‘problematic’ and a ‘denial of local democracy’, the chief execu...

IMPROVEMENT

Liverpool's recovery: how a council moved beyond intervention

By Heather Jameson | 08 October 2026

Liverpool City Council has shed its final improvement notice and emerged from intervention five y...

IMPROVEMENT

Windsor and Maidenhead Council: Back from the brink

By Stephen Evans | 08 October 2026

Windsor and Maidenhead Council has changed from a council on the edge to one that is balancing bu...

CARE LEAVERS

Care leavers need to avoid a support 'cliff edge'

By Ann Graham | 08 October 2026

The imperative of children’s services leaders must be to create the conditions for all care leave...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Cracking down on profiteering

By Paul Marinko | 06 October 2026

Following our focus on sector concerns at national efforts to curb the use of unregistered childr...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Downgrading councils who use illegal children's homes holds sector to 'unattainable standard'

By Ann McGauran | 29 September 2026

Ofsted proposals to downgrade councils that use unregistered placements would hold local authorit...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Coroner rejects county's anonymity request ahead of 10-year-old's murder inquest

By Paul Marinko | 21 September 2026

The coroner conducting the inquest into the death of 10-year-old Sara Sharif has rejected a reque...

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