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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children in care figures hits record high
By Dan Peters | 12 October 2017
Some 90 children a day entered care last year, meaning a record number of youngsters are now in t...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Narey: Foster carers should be paid better
By Dan Peters | 11 October 2017
Foster carers should be ‘treated as professionals and properly remunerated,’ the leader of a gove...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Sector's ethnicity under government scrutiny
By Mark Conrad | 10 October 2017
Councils have been warned they must ‘explain or change’ their record on ethnicity despite fresh d...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Knowing me, knowing NCAS
10 October 2017
At this time of year, Diary’s inbox is flooded with mostly dull press releases urging people to a...
FINANCE
A critical time for children's services
By Jenny Coles | 10 October 2017
Alison Michalska explains the urgent need for government action and national attention on the sta...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Kids' services costs are creating 'unsustainable overspends'
10 October 2017
London Councils has told the Government that rising children’s services pressures are forcing cou...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Whitehall and authorities clash over review on deprivation
By Dan Peters | 10 October 2017
The Government and the sector could be on a collision course over the approach the fair funding r...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Knowsley chief wins praise for turning around kids' services
By Dan Peters | 10 October 2017
The independent chair of Knowsley MBC’s children’s services improvement board has praised the cou...
FINANCE
We need intellectual bandwidth, capacity and resources to halt a children's crisis
By Adam Lent | 04 October 2017
A crisis is coming to children’s services and the Government has yet to acknowledge the problem, ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Early intervention: What good looks like
By Tom McBride | 04 October 2017
Evaluating service transformation to boost early intervention is complex. Tom McBride says the Ea...
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