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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Number of children waiting for secure accommodation doubles
25 July 2022
The numbers waiting for secure children’s home placements has doubled in a year, showing the need...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Starve a kid to save a quid?
By Deborah McMillan | 19 July 2022
Deborah McMillan argues that governments have for too long tuned out to the issue of child povert...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Reset and renew
By Steve Crocker | 19 July 2022
Steve Crocker outlines the major challenges facing children’s services – getting the right staff ...
ENVIRONMENT
Asking for the earth
By Dame Rachel de Souza | 19 July 2022
We need to be more ambitious for our children, for their future and the future of the planet, say...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Leeds denies cover-up over social care grievance
By Dan Peters | 18 July 2022
A senior Leeds City Council member has denied a ‘cover-up’ amid suggestions concerned frontline s...
BUSINESS
Early intervention cuts trigger crisis interventions
By Chris Mahony | 18 July 2022
Councils, young people and families are trapped in a ‘vicious cycle’ due to the halving of invest...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Council apologises for child sexual exploitation
By Dan Peters | 13 July 2022
Telford & Wrekin Council has apologised ‘wholeheartedly’ after an inquiry concluded more than 1,0...
WHITEHALL
Ombudsman raises role change fears
By Dan Peters | 12 July 2022
Questions remain about the future of the Local Government Ombudsman’s long-standing role in the r...
REORGANISATION
Structural change not a cure-all for children's services
By Martin Ford | 11 July 2022
Structural change alone is not enough to turn around children’s services, a new report has found.
SOCIAL CARE
ADCS conference: Whitehall examining private sector 'profiteering'
By Martin Ford | 08 July 2022
Civil servants are looking at ways of tackling exploitation of the social care sector by private ...
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