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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
LGA waits to hear about cash for sector-led improvment
By Dan Peters | 03 February 2016
The Local Government Association (LGA) was this week waiting to find out how much money Whitehall...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Education 'notable for its absence' in devo deals
By Dan Peters | 27 January 2016
The Department for Education (DfE) is trailing behind other parts of Whitehall in its willingness...
WHITEHALL
Councils' role in school improvement under threat
By Dan Peters | 19 January 2016
MPs have called for a ‘fundamental reassessment of accountability and oversight’ for all schools ...
FINANCE
Leading councils 'risk being dragged down'
By Sam Clayden | 15 January 2016
Councils brought in to save failing children’s services face falling into the same patterns as th...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Councils face new inspections regime from February
By Thomas Bridge | 14 January 2016
New inspections of council services for vulnerable children launching in February have been descr...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Chief executive praised despite inadequate rating
By Dan Peters | 05 January 2016
Children’s services at Torbay Council have been graded inadequate by Ofsted in a report published...
WHITEHALL
Norfolk CC chief welcomes takeover - but hits out at lack of communication
By Sam Clayden | 16 December 2015
The Norfolk CC chief executive has welcomed the Government’s intervention in its failing children...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Reforms will centralise child protection services
By Sam Clayden | 16 December 2015
New reforms allowing the Government to remove children’s services from the hands of councils open...
FINANCE
Failing councils could have children's services taken away
By Sam Clayden | 14 December 2015
Struggling councils could be stripped of their powers to safeguard children, the prime minister h...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Ofsted slams 'inadequate' children's services
By Jamie Hailstone | 03 December 2015
Children’s services in Lancashire and Doncaster have come back under the spotlight after the publ...
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