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The search for better value has seen more children placed in homes miles away from their local communities. Picture: Tomsickova/Adobe Stock

Other 30 May 2023

Commissioning Children’s Social Care: Key policy developments

Gloucestershire created services to accommodate young people’s complex needs. Picture: Zamrznuti tonovi/Adobe Stock

Best Practice 30 May 2023

Trauma-informed commissioning delivers savings

Profiles created with each child captures their wishes for a personal care pathway. Picture: yavdat/Adobe Stock

Best Practice 30 May 2023

Step-down service improves placement stability

A legal definition could give clarity to kinship carers. Picture: Svitlana/Adobe Stock

Features 30 May 2023

Legal Update: Kinship care arrangements

Ofsted’s latest inspection found Hull’s comprehensive improvement plan delivered better services and outcomes for children. Picture: Andy/Adobe Stock

Best Practice 30 May 2023

Local Spotlight: Hull City Council

Mary Jackson is chief executive of Frontline

News 30 May 2023

Frontline awarded £61m government contract to train child protection social workers

Dame Rachel de Souza: 'No child should be able to access or watch pornography'. Picture: Office of the children's commissioner for England

News 25 May 2023

Children’s commissioner threatens legal action over government’s asylum plans

Baroness Morris of Yardley: 'Unless the proposals go further and faster, the strategy will leave many children behind.' Picture: UK Parliament

News 25 May 2023

Peers brand government’s Care Review response a ‘wasted opportunity’

More than a thousand looked-after children are missing from education, report warns. Picture: fotoduets/Adobe Stock

News 25 May 2023

Hundreds of children in care missing from school, de Souza warns

Mark Russell is chief executive of The Children's Society

Opinion 25 May 2023

Asylum reforms are a gamble with young lives

John Pearce is the current ADCS president. Picture: ADCS

News 24 May 2023

Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse could overwhelm councils, say DCSs

Andy Couldrick has been named as the Trust's new chair. Picture: Birmingham Children's Trust

News 24 May 2023

Birmingham Children’s Trust chair to be replaced by chief executive

Local authorities should calculate maximum caseloads for social workers, a Senedd committee states. Picture: RH2010/Adobe Stock

News 24 May 2023

Cap on social worker caseloads among recommendations for Welsh children’s services reforms

More than half of adopted teenagers tried to access mental health services last year. Picture: Rawpixel/Adobe Stock

News 23 May 2023

Call to improve wellbeing support for adopted teens

The IICSA put forward 20 recommendations to government. Picture: IICSA

News 23 May 2023

Home Office response to child sexual abuse inquiry ‘will not protect children’, review chair warns