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CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Healthy Relationships Week: local progress in tackling parental conflict

By Virginia Ghiara | 19 October 2020

To mark the start of Healthy Relationships Week, Virginia Ghiara of the Early Intervention Founda...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Disabled people could be part of the answer to the fostering crisis

By Dr Peter Unwin | 08 October 2020

Thousands of disabled people could help relieve the long-standing recruitment crisis in fostering...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Pulling children out of poverty

By Jenny Coles | 06 October 2020

Poverty is not inevitable or ‘someone else’s problem’. President of the ADCS Jenny Coles looks at...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

A very blunt instrument

By Carolyne Willow | 06 October 2020

Carolyne Willow says it is to this Government’s shame that it found time to carry out a ‘massive ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

If Robin Hood ran our SEND services

By Colin Pettigrew | 06 October 2020

Nottinghamshire CC is one of the 11 local authorities on IMPOWER’s 2020 Index of the best perform...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Improving foster care recruitment using service design techniques

By Kat Thackray | 30 September 2020

Kat Thackray explains how local authorities can use service design techniques to improve the fost...

FINANCE

Government urged to increase children's services funding

By Martin Ford | 29 September 2020

The Spending Review marks a crucial moment for a system of children’s social care that is reachin...

WHITEHALL

Auditors poised to qualify accounts over SEND

By Dan Peters | 24 September 2020

Auditors are poised to qualify some value for money opinions as a result of spiralling special ed...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Children's trust chairman quits

By Martin Ford | 15 September 2020

The chairman of Northamptonshire Children’s Trust has resigned after the county council raised co...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Inspiring a new generation

By Nancy Scott | 14 September 2020

Future First works with state schools and colleges to link young people with alumni and employers...

frederica-diamanta

Corporate Director – Adults & Health

£176,061 – £196,002

Lead Change. Shape Lives. Be Part of Something New. Apply for this job

Newham London Borough Council

Assistant Director, People

£89,116 - £104,843 per annum

Experience the best of both worlds with our flexible hybrid working arrangements. Apply for this job

Essex County Council

Executive Director (Children’s Services)

up to £137,831

Are you an experienced and inspirational leader of Children’s Services? Apply for this job

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council

frederica-diamanta

Corporate Director – Adults & Health

£176,061 – £196,002

Lead Change. Shape Lives. Be Part of Something New. Apply for this job

Newham London Borough Council

Assistant Director, People

£89,116 - £104,843 per annum

Experience the best of both worlds with our flexible hybrid working arrangements. Apply for this job

Essex County Council

Executive Director (Children’s Services)

up to £137,831

Are you an experienced and inspirational leader of Children’s Services? Apply for this job

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council