Communicating children's services

• Children's Services | Management | Service configuration

Communicating the day-to-day work of children's services can...

How to recruit and retain social workers

• Management | Leadership | Social Care

Recruitment and retention challenges in children's services...

Care and capability

• Education | Management | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care

Looked-after young people are some of the most vulnerable in...

Local Spotlight: Birmingham City Council

• Management | Service configuration | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

How England's largest authority is using online and...

Commissioning for outcomes

• Management | Commissioning

All commissioning decisions should be judged by the impact...

Protecting yourself in the Digital Age

• Management

If you don't think children's and young people's charities...

What kind of family support can avert looming care system crisis?

• Management | Social Care | Preventing Care Proceedings

Record rise in number of care applications has prompted...

The policy context on Children's Mental Health

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Management | Mental Health

One in 10 five- to 16-year-olds have a diagnosable mental...

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the...

Key steps that will improve play services for disabled children

• Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Play

A charity has devised a blueprint for improved access to...

Future in mind: the story so far

• Health | Management | Service configuration | Mental Health

The Future in Mind strategy promises wide-ranging...

Raising ambitions for care leavers

• Education | Children's Services | Management | Service configuration | Social Care | Careers Guidance | Leaving Care

Care leavers are more likely to struggle to access...

States of play: how the UK nations approach children's play

• Children's Services | Management | Service configuration | Play

National Playday highlights the importance of play in...

Future of foster care: innovation in recruitment and retention

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Management | Service configuration | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Three out of four children in care are fostered, but the...

Managing your risks doesn't mean stopping your fun

• Management | Financial management

Interview: Nick Wilson, director of children's services, Surrey Council Council

• Education | Management | Social Care | Interview

Surrey's new director of children's services Nick Wilson...

Leadership: Understand your market to help deliver a better specialist service

• Early Years | Management | Leadership

Warren Park Children's Centre is a specialist provider of...

Careers: Youth centre manager

• Careers | Management | Youth Work | Youth clubs

The Myplace youth facilities programme is creating new...

Skills for the Job: Writing funding applications

• Careers | Management | Youth Work

What steps should you take to ensure that your funding...

Interview: Kevin Gallagher, business development director, Continuum Group

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Interview

"All challenges are opportunities because there is always a...

Local Spotlight: Doncaster

• Management | Service configuration

Transferring delivery of children's social care to an...

Ask the Experts: My boss is micro-managing me

• Safeguarding in education | Drugs and alcohol | Public Health | Management | Youth Work

Our expert panel offers advice on an overbearing boss,...

Ask the Experts: Worries about new employer

• Nurseries | Management | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection

Our expert panel offers advice on sharing expertise, an...

Woodland Nursery

• Early Years | Early years education | Nurseries | Education | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Outdoor Learning

London-based nursery inspired by the Forest School approach,...

Leadership: Three boroughs, one DCS and the potential for significant savings

• Management | Leadership

When the coalition government came to power in May 2010, it...

Leadership: Commissioning is key to improved services for young people

• Management | Leadership | Youth Work | Youth services

Youth services play a key role in young people's educational...

Leadership: How to ensure deaf children's needs are met in difficult financial times

• Health | Disabled children and young people | Management | Leadership

These are dark times for children's services, particularly...

Leadership: Corporate partnerships can motivate young people

• Management | Leadership | Youth Work

UK Youth has been around for 100 years. To have survived and...

Leadership: Let young people decide on the services that meet their needs

• Management | Leadership | Youth Work | Youth services

The services that support young people outside of school are...

Leadership: Society must make up for omissions in the Munro Review

• Management | Leadership | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection

All of us working with vulnerable children know their...

Leadership: How all our children's centres survived the cuts in Hertfordshire

• Early Years | Management | Leadership

In February 2011, Hertfordshire County Council leader Robert...

Leadership: Time spent reflecting on how you work is time well spent

• Management | Leadership

I started my career in the field of education, training and...

Leadership: Creative changes will end the status quo of inefficient children's services

• Management | Leadership | Service configuration

Back in 2005, we underwent a restructure in Stockport like...

Leadership: Improved joint working will save time and money in Harrow

• Management | Leadership

As the budget cuts start to bite, the services we provide...

Leadership: Cuts compel us more than ever to act smart and intervene early

• Management | Leadership

It does not much matter how we got here. The issue facing us...

A serene setting to address harmful sexual behaviour

• Children's Services | Management | Service configuration | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Glebe House is a residential home providing therapeutic care...

Survey of Schools' Work with Child and Adolescent Mental Health

• Education | Extra-curricular | Health | Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Service configuration | Mental Health

A research team led by University College London and the...