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WHITEHALL
Ministers to limit council exemptions clause
By Jamie Hailstone | 09 December 2016
The Government is to backtrack on a controversial clause in the Children and Social Work Bill whi...
WHITEHALL
A different school of thought
By Ben Cahill | 06 December 2016
Compulsory academisation has been dropped – but challenges remain for local authorities and small...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
State of independence
By Jonathan Lima-Matthews | 06 December 2016
Research by Scope has shown councils could be doing more to help young disabled people live indep...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children's services approaching 'tipping point'
By Sam Clayden | 06 December 2016
The country’s most senior children’s services director has warned that the sector is facing a ‘ti...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Focusing on fostering pressures
By Cllr Richard Watts | 29 November 2016
Rising numbers of children entering care means the foster system is under severe pressure. Cllr R...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Responding to the needs of child asylum seekers
By Dave Hill | 29 November 2016
Local authorities are working hard to support unaccompanied asylum seeking children but swift act...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
The road to recovery
By Mark Rogers | 29 November 2016
The recent Ofsted report into Birmingham City Council’s children’s services may have highlighted ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Council slammed over 'widespread children's failures'
By Sam Clayden | 29 November 2016
Children’s services at Kirklees MBC have been slammed as inadequate due to ‘serious and widesprea...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Autumn Statement: Where is the social infrastructure
By Katie Johnston | 28 November 2016
Devolution isn’t just about roads and railways, so where is the chancellor's measures to meet car...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Birmingham trust will 'accelerate' improvement of failing children's services
By Sam Clayden | 25 November 2016
The new chair of Birmingham City Council’s children’s trust has insisted that the new model will ...
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