Management

  Headline data often hides the truth about services

Recent events surrounding the Leeds General Infirmary paediatric heart unit conjure up feelings bordering disbelief.

  Birmingham chief vows to improve inadequate services within a year

The second city’s new children’s services chief Peter Duxbury has put staff stability and support networks at the heart of his strategy to turn around the council’s unenviable record on safeguarding children

  The awards that really matter

The Children & Young People Now Awards represent the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK. They recognise the most innovative and effective work in transforming young lives and building a better society. Too much of this work goes...

  Working Together to Safeguard Children: key revisions explained

It has been two years in the making, but the revised Working Together guidance has finally been published. The new, streamlined version contains crucial information for all those with a role in safeguarding children

  Behind the Inspection Rating: Out-of-school club earns its stripes

Badgers Out of School Sett, Chester | Out-of-school club inspection | March 2013

  Centre thrives on clarity of purpose

Newport Children’s Centre, Waltham Forest, London; Children’s centre inspection; March 2013

  Troubled Cornwall on the mend

  Behind the Inspection Rating: ‘Little Renoirs’ get their needs met

Wentworth Nursery School and Children’s Centre | Nursery school inspection | January 2013