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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Keeping a close eye on early years services
By Nick Bell | 27 January 2016
Redesigning of early years services needs to be bold and forward-thinking. Nick Bell questions wh...
BUSINESS
Kier sells 50% stake of PFI project for £4.1m
By Jamie Hailstone | 27 January 2016
The Kier Pension Group Scheme has sold its 50% stake in the Sheffield Schools PFI project to a jo...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Education 'notable for its absence' in devo deals
By Dan Peters | 27 January 2016
The Department for Education (DfE) is trailing behind other parts of Whitehall in its willingness...
FINANCE
Clark accused of 'cover-up' on council cut-backs
By Thomas Bridge | 21 January 2016
Communities secretary Greg Clark has been accused of attempting to ‘cover up’ cuts to local gover...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Demand to halt payments for school conversions
By Mark Whitehead | 19 January 2016
Councils should no longer be forced to pay for the cost of schools converting into academies, loc...
FINANCE
No contract for Highland Council
By Jamie Hailstone | 19 January 2016
The Scottish Government has refused to let Highland Council buy out a series of school constructi...
WHITEHALL
Councils' role in school improvement under threat
By Dan Peters | 19 January 2016
MPs have called for a ‘fundamental reassessment of accountability and oversight’ for all schools ...
FINANCE
Cameron's Tory council leader tables worst-case scenario cuts
By Dan Peters | 19 January 2016
The Conservative leader of prime minister David Cameron’s council has risked reigniting the row o...
FINANCE
Leading councils 'risk being dragged down'
By Sam Clayden | 15 January 2016
Councils brought in to save failing children’s services face falling into the same patterns as th...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Government backs children's services at 'combined level'
By Thomas Bridge | 15 January 2016
Government plans to overhaul children’s services have indicated support for delivery of social ca...
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