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SAFEGUARDING
Protecting children from risks outside the home in Bucks
By Cllr Carl Jackson | 09 February 2026
A new pilot in Buckinghamshire taking practical steps to tackle the risks from exploitation faced by children outside the home is now part of a national evaluation, says Cllr Carl Jackson.
HR
From adult social care international recruitment crisis to collaboration
By Pete Fahy | 19 January 2026
Pete Fahy looks at how the West Midlands is rewriting the future of social care workforce plannin...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Review finds council failures ahead of Sara Sharif murder
By William Eichler | 14 November 2025
Children’s services in Surrey failed to identify abuse suffered by 10-year-old Sara Sharif before...
IMPROVEMENT
Safeguarding failure at Haringey
By William Eichler | 02 October 2025
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has exposed a major safeguarding failure at Haring...
SAFEGUARDING
Red flags and boiling frogs: a damning picture that the National Youth Strategy must fix
By Leigh Middleton | 22 September 2025
With the Government's National Youth Strategy due to be published, Leigh Middleton warns that wit...
SOCIAL CARE
Two-thirds of councils lack safeguarding policy for gender-questioning children
By William Eichler | 27 August 2025
Nearly two-thirds of councils with care responsibilities could not provide a policy on safeguardi...
SAFEGUARDING
Councils need to step up and get a grip on CSE
By Heather Jameson | 19 June 2025
There has been political inaction across the major parties on child sexual exploitation, spanning...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Councils warned to be 'open to scrutiny' in grooming gangs inquiry
By Martin Ford | 17 June 2025
There has been a ‘collective failure’ to address questions about the ethnicity of perpetrators wh...
CHILD ABUSE
Abuse audit delayed
By Martin Ford | 03 June 2025
A nationwide audit of child abuse has been delayed, safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has confi...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Closing up the support gap
By Jo Casebourne | 06 May 2025
Jo Casebourne examines why mentoring and befriending matters for young people - and what local le...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Councils could be forced into abuse inquiries
By Martin Ford | 29 April 2025
Councils could be forced to take part in local inquiries into child abuse.
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