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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Back on track for families
By Jeanette Richards | 18 August 2025
When Jeanette Richards took up her executive director of children’s services’ post at Bury Council, her department had just been rated inadequate. Ofsted has now said most children are getting the ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Reshaping the landscape for our children
By Andy Smith | 15 August 2025
As children’s services face a series of overlapping reforms – not least local government reorgani...
FAIR FUNDING
Fix the flawed children's funding formula
By Michael McVicker | 15 August 2025
Michael McVicker explains why the proposed children’s social care funding formula is unfit for pu...
REORGANISATION
Reorganisation plans to include social care partnerships
By Martin Ford | 04 August 2025
Councils will have to set out plans for partnership working in social care as part of reorganisat...
FINANCE
'Serious issues' over fair funding formula
By Martin Ford | 01 August 2025
A key part of the proposed Fair Funding formula must be removed due to ‘serious issues’, London C...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Putting children front and centre
By Cllr Hannah Dalton | 23 July 2025
The District Councils’ Network has joined with the Staff College to create a route map for counci...
DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK
DCN: 'Essential' role of districts in setting up new children's services
By Martin Ford | 23 July 2025
District councils will be ‘essential’ to establishing new children’s services through local gover...
ADCS
LGR could put service improvement at risk, says ADCS leader
By Ann McGauran | 16 July 2025
Local government reorganisation could put the delivery of better services for children and famili...
ADCS
ADCS Conference: £53m for new DoL placements
By Ann McGauran | 10 July 2025
The Government has allocated £53m to create 200 new council-run placements for children deprived ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Call for Government to fix 'broken' children's social care
By Ann McGauran | 10 July 2025
Urgent action is needed to fix a ‘broken’ children’s social care system and give all young people...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Changing childhood: Listening, understanding, responding
By Helen Lincoln | 08 July 2025
In the context of a new era of child-centred government and local government reform, the findings...
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