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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
'Responsibility without power' after academisation
By Sam Clayden | 29 March 2016
Local authorities will be accountable for ensuring there are enough school places after academisa...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
A spoonful of sugar?
By Cllr Izzi Seccombe | 24 March 2016
After Osborne's announcement of a controversial sugar tax, Cllr Izzi Seccombe explains what counc...
WHITEHALL
Social care reform could 'destabilise' children's services
By Sam Clayden | 23 March 2016
The rush to reform social care could destabilise and fragment children’s services, a prominent ac...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Inspectors demand councils are 'held to account' for missing children 'failures'
By Thomas Bridge | 23 March 2016
Councils must be ‘held to account’ for widespread failures in support for missing looked after ch...
WHITEHALL
Osborne's schools pledge 'misleading'
By Sam Clayden | 22 March 2016
Council chief executives and experts have hit back at chancellor George Osborne’s drive to free s...
WHITEHALL
Labour: £500m academies black hole
By William Eichler | 18 March 2016
The chancellor’s plan to transform every school into an academy faces a £560m funding shortage, a...
FINANCE
Reforms will not make council tax proportionate
By Dan Peters | 16 March 2016
The Scottish Government’s proposals for council tax reform ‘fall short’ of making it a proportion...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Budget 2016: Academy plan will 'not improve standards'
By Sam Clayden | 16 March 2016
Fixating on giving schools independence will not generate improvement in education standards, cou...
SOCIAL CARE
Why it's time to dare to care
By Terry Collins | 15 March 2016
Terry Collins explains why care leavers and adoption are his top priorities as Durham CC’s new ch...
FINANCE
New appointments at unitary
15 March 2016
Former assistant chief executive of Thurrock BC Steve Cox has taken up the post of director of en...
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