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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Government could close academy loophole
By Jamie Hailstone | 04 April 2016
Legal experts have warned the Government could resist attempts by councils to create their own ac...
WHITEHALL
Academisation 'fails to address Northern Powerhouse needs'
By Sam Clayden | 31 March 2016
The chancellor’s forced academisation plans could hinder his own vision of a Northern Powerhouse,...
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...
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