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ADCS
Spinning a golden SEND thread
By Ann McGauran | 18 December 2025
ADCS president Rachael Wardell talks to Ann McGauran about the need for government to listen to the perspectives of England’s children’s services directors on the future of SEND policy.
ADCS
Where every person can belong
By Rachael Wardell | 10 December 2025
Rachael Wardell says ending the two-child benefit cap is a welcome step. Mental health must now b...
NCASC
NCASC: Children's minister pledges to 'reinvent' fostering
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
The children’s minister has pledged to expand and ‘reinvent’ fostering to reverse the ‘expensive...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Ofsted to drop headline 'one word' judgement for children's services inspections
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
Ofsted has confirmed plans to change inspections of local authorities’ children’s services (ILACS...
NCASC
Health minister warns of 'forces of division and darkness'
By Lee Peart | 27 November 2025
Health minister Stephen Kinnock has warned there are ‘forces of division and darkness waiting at ...
NCASC
Profit cap on children's placement providers 'won't be worth the paper it's written on'
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
Any profit cap on providers of children’s placements in England ‘won’t be worth the paper it’s wr...
NCASC
Counting care costs
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
Councils continue to face steep rises in the cost of care in both children and adult services. As...
NCASC
Fixing the family support gap
By Mary-Alice Doyle | 27 November 2025
Camden LBC is launching a powerful, data-driven model designed to pinpoint low-income families mo...
NCASC
In search of social care leaders
By Frazer Thouard | 27 November 2025
Jayne McCabe and Frazer Thouard dissect the shifting recruitment landscape for directors of adult...
NCASC
NCASC: Hike in working age adults needing support is due to dysfunctional system
By Ann McGauran | 26 November 2025
A forty per cent hike in the number of working age people needing support by 2030 is the ‘predict...
NCASC
NCASC: Councils must be 'equal partner' in neighbourhood working, leader says
By Lee Peart | 26 November 2025
Cllr Dr Wendy Taylor, chair of the Local Government Association (LGA) Health and Wellbeing Commit...
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