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WALES
Welsh councils facing £559m budget pressure
By Paul Marinko | 11 October 2024
Welsh councils face budget pressures of around £559m next year, the sector’s umbrella organisatio...
PEOPLE
Chief executive's resignation 'welcomed' by MPs
By Martin Ford | 10 October 2024
Chief executive of Tameside MBC, Sandra Stewart, has announced she is to stand down following a w...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children's services need cash injection amid rising cases, says LGA
By Emily Twinch | 09 October 2024
Children’s services in England need an ‘emergency cash injection’ in the Budget to deal with ‘rec...
SOCIAL CARE
Outsourcing social care provision has 'failed to deliver' expected benefits
By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024
English councils have increasingly outsourced social care provision but private firms have fallen...
BUSINESS
Contract agreed for Lincolnshire children's home build
By Dan Peters | 02 October 2024
Willmott Dixon has signed a multi-million-pound contract to build a 28-bed secure children’s home...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Charity warns council not to charge parents for taking children into care
By Emily Twinch | 23 September 2024
A charity has called on a council not to charge for children taken into care because it could det...
HOUSING
Supporting children and families by commissioning for outcomes
By Javeed Khan | 19 September 2024
Grosvenor Hart Homes is pairing affordable housing and outcome-led support to transform children’...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
The gender gap – an 'unmerited reality'
By Rose Durban | 19 September 2024
Rose Durban says the gender gap is a reality and we owe it to children that their learning, oppor...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Child poverty policy needs to be joined up
By Andy Smith | 18 September 2024
Local government needs to seize the chance to have a renewed, more rounded conversation about chi...
FINANCE
Waiting continues for multi-year settlement despite 'collapse' warnings
By Dan Peters | 12 September 2024
Local government expects another one-year finance settlement despite warnings that failing to add...
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