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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Trusts no 'quick fix' for failures in kids' services
By Sam Clayden | 12 October 2016
Delivering children’s services through a trust is not a ‘quick fix’ solution to failure, an acade...
FINANCE
Social care facing 'fresh risks' over funding
By Thomas Bridge | 11 October 2016
Experts have warned social care services face ‘fresh risks’ under council funding reforms, as the...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Trust to run Sandwell MBC's children's services
By Sam Clayden | 07 October 2016
Sandwell MBC’s children’s service department is to be transferred to a trust despite inspectors h...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Kids' services in need of 'radical change'
05 October 2016
The chief executive of charity Barnardo’s, Javed Khan, has called for a ‘radical new approach to ...
FINANCE
Second-hand daylight
By Mark Rogers | 05 October 2016
Mark Rogers reflects on his busy three years as SOLACE president and passes on some crucial lesso...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
The real lesson from grammar schools
By Claire Fox | 05 October 2016
Claire Fox says opponents and champions of Theresa May’s grammar school strategy are overly fixat...
SOCIAL CARE
Crossing the boundaries
By Simon Brown | 27 September 2016
A ground-breaking idea that saw six councils forming a partnership to improve support for vulnera...
WHITEHALL
Council pension funds review opens
By Dan Peters | 27 September 2016
An expert has suggested the status quo could be the ‘least bad option’ as a review of academisati...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Chief to head Reading turnaround
By Sam Clayden | 26 September 2016
Achieving for Children chief executive Nick Whitfield has been assigned to turn around Reading Co...
WHITEHALL
Academisation could cost councils £320m
By Dan Peters | 23 September 2016
The cost to council taxpayers of converting all schools to academies could be as high as £320m, n...
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