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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Local government are the systems thinkers and the time to act is now
18 December 2019
Systems thinking - considering the whole, not just the parts, and how those parts interact - bri...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Signs of improvement in inadequate children's services
By Martin Ford | 18 December 2019
Two councils subjected to Government intervention due to poor children’s services have received p...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Fair redistribution must play a continuing part in council funding
By Sir Stephen Houghton | 18 December 2019
SIGOMA chair Sir Stephen Houghton trusts ministers will ‘recognise the key role that councils mus...
FINANCE
Northamptonshire heading for budget overspend
By Martin Ford | 16 December 2019
Officers have forecast a £1.9m budget gap at the end of the financial year due to a failure to re...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
We want to work with new Government 'to help deliver on our shared ambitions'
By James Jamieson | 16 December 2019
One of Boris Johnson's key priorities must be to publish the provisional Finance Settlement quick...
WHITEHALL
This will be a different Conservative Government
By Paul Dossett | 13 December 2019
Head of local government at Grant Thornton UK, Paul Dossett, says the fact that the Conservative ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
London borough rejects insourcing children's services
By Martin Ford | 11 December 2019
Kingston LBC had considered returning services from a wholly-owned company when their contract en...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
The importance of an early start
By Rachel Dickinson | 11 December 2019
With concerns of underfunding remaining in the childcare sector, the Association of Directors of ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Repairing a broken system
By Dan Peters | 11 December 2019
The voluntary scheme for sharing responsibility for the care of unaccompanied asylum-seeking chil...
CRIME
'Safe places' needed in Greater Manchester to divert youth from violent crime
By Ann McGauran | 05 December 2019
Communities in Greater Manchester feel there is an urgent need to create safe places and strong r...
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