Children-s-services - Page 18

By Helen Lincoln | 04 September 2023

Essex CC has achieved a second consecutive ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted rating for children’s social care...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Maximising early years' potential

By Andy Smith | 26 August 2023

Help with childcare should be targeted at the most socially and economically disadvantaged famili...

LEGAL

Rethinking deprivation of liberty

By Lisa Harker | 26 August 2023

Lisa Harker reviews applications issued by the national Deprivation of Liberty court, and says it...

LEGAL

Stepping up post-adoption support

By Baljinder Bath | 26 August 2023

Properly resourced and funded therapeutic services post-adoption need to be the norm and not simp...

WHITEHALL

Nine councils in section 114 warning

By Mark Conrad | 25 August 2023

Nine councils within the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities (Sigoma) have warned the...

ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDRENS SERVICES

EXCLUSIVE: Questions over child age assessments

By Martin Ford | 25 August 2023

Council directors have raised doubts over Government plans to take over age assessments of unacco...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Unlocking opportunities for young people in Blackburn with Darwen

By Jo Siddle | 22 August 2023

Blackburn with Darwen got the highest grant award of any English authority area from the Youth In...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Pioneering a new approach to children's social care in Somerset

By Chris Luck | 22 August 2023

A new partnership in Somerset is supporting the county’s most complex looked-after children and c...

FINANCE

Asylum 'perma-backlog' to impact councils

By Martin Ford | 22 August 2023

Reforms to the UK’s asylum system are likely to pile more pressure on councils struggling to supp...

EDUCATION

Children referred to social services twice as likely to fail GCSEs

By William Eichler | 22 August 2023

Children who have been referred to social care are twice as likely to fail an English or Maths GC...

Assistant Director for Safeguarding

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Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Director of Children’s Social Care and Early Help

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