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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Government backs sector-led improvement for children's services
By Dan Peters | 12 October 2017
The Department for Education (DfE) has signalled a major policy shift with a £20m investment for ...
HEALTH
Sutcliffe: CQC 'got some things wrong' in local systems reviews
By Dan Peters | 12 October 2017
The chief inspector of social care has admitted mistakes were made in the Care Quality Commission...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
To the power of four
By Mark Rogers | 12 October 2017
As part of the second installment of children's services essays collated by iMPOWER, Mark Rogers ...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Gavin Jones: We must become learning organisations
By Martin Gavin | 04 October 2017
Kicking off a series of articles, Gavin Jones argues the increasingly complex world challenges th...
EDUCATION
Ministers hand councils new education role
By Mark Conrad | 02 October 2017
Scottish ministers have watered down plans to reduce council influence over schools.
IMPROVEMENT
Fresh audit warning for Brum
By Mark Conrad | 02 October 2017
Birmingham City Council’s auditors have delivered another major warning over the authority’s budget.
HEALTH
Care 'catastrophe'
By Hiba Mahamadi and Dan Peters | 27 September 2017
Friction rises as council leaders warn over Whitehall’s threats to withhold bed-blocking cash.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
'Systemic and persistent' failures in council's children's services
By Dan Peters | 20 September 2017
Worcestershire CC has said it has invested an extra £5.1m into improving children’s social care t...
IMPROVEMENT
Improvement panel to remain in Birmingham
By Heather Jameson | 19 September 2017
The team brought in to turn Birmingham City Council around has backtracked on its plans to withdr...
IMPROVEMENT
Union suspends industrial action in Birmingham bin dispute
By Dan Peters | 19 September 2017
Trade union Unite has suspended industrial action involving refuse workers after the High Court o...
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