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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Cumbria faces budget overspend due to children's services
By Martin Ford | 10 January 2019
Rising demand and costs in looked after children threaten to leave Cumbria CC with a budget gap.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Nine out of ten councils blow the budget on children's care
By Heather Jameson | 09 January 2019
Nearly ninety percent of councils overspent on children’s social care last year, according to fig...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
FoI and the hidden side of safeguarding
By Ann McGauran | 08 January 2019
FOI responses show more than half of the councils approached had reported incidents in the last t...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Ofsted boost for Calderdale children
By Heather Jameson | 19 December 2018
Calderdale Council’s children’s services has been rated as good with outstanding features in its ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Wakefield avoids intervention over children's services
By Martin Ford | 13 December 2018
Wakefield Council should retain control of its children’s services, a commissioner has recommended.
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Future Forum North: 'Get a grip on mysterious DCS role'
By Dan Peters | 07 December 2018
Local authority bosses should get a grip on the ‘mysterious’ director of children’s services [DCS...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
'We can't go on as we are'
By Stuart Gallimore | 05 December 2018
Investing in strategies that reduce childhood poverty is an efficient economic policy as well as ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Co-production – the way forward for our youth
By Kate Pieroudis | 05 December 2018
Kate Pieroudis outlines how the Social Care Institute for Excellence is developing a plan to make...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Councils 'need to do better' on SEND provision
By Martin Ford | 04 December 2018
Ofsted has criticised councils over their provision for children with Special Educational Needs a...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Union's FoI reveals scale of youth centre cuts
By Chris Mahony | 03 December 2018
At least 160 youth centres have closed since 2016, a report based on Freedom of Information Act r...
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