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Spinning a golden SEND thread
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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As part of the council’s leadership team, you will lead specialist technical services Apply for this job

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