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Features 26 September

Special Report: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

The past year has been a challenging one for special education needs and disability services –...

Education

Features 26 September

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Key policy developments

Education

Features 26 September

The Big Debate: How can we make SEND support more efficient and effective?

Education

Features 26 September

Legal Update: Labour’s care policy priorities

Social Care

Ofsted said ‘innovative social work practice’ contributed to Telford and Wrekin’s second consecutive ‘outstanding’ rating

Features 26 September

Local Spotlight: Telford and Wrekin Council

Social Care

Adopteens gives young adoptees new opportunities and the confi dence to talk on subjects important to them

Features 26 September

Adopted teens collaborate to have their voices reshape the social care system

Children's Services

Harkin: 'I care that they will not relive the past, that they will understand that everyone deserves their place in a shared community.'

Features 26 September

How I Got Here: David Harkin, youth worker

Community sentencing and restorative justice

Features 25 September

Six steps to help improve adoption

Social Care

Features 25 September

Inspections Clinic: Ofsted’s Big Listen

Ofsted

Professor Samantha Baron is national director of the British Association of Social Workers Cymru

Features 25 September

Strengths-focused leadership

Children's Services

Sponsored Features 10 September

Teaching students who have mild vision or hearing difficulties

Opinion

John Pearce is director of children’s services at Durham County Council

Stable Homes, Built on Love?

John Pearce Social Care

June O'Sullivan is chief executive of LEYF

Could social enterprises fix the childcare system?

June O'sullivan Early Years

Sector leaders have criticised the government's response. Picture: Adobe Stock

What does positive change look like in the early years?

Michele Davison

Elvin: 'We need a service structure that is dedicated to children in all types of care'

A national care service delivered locally

Andy Elvin Your Shout

Research

Parental Risk Factors and Children Entering Care: Risk and Parent’s Sex

The analysis shows 37.8% of the looked-after children were in non-mainstream school settings at the age of 16. Picture: Gpointstudio/Adobe Stock

Research: Non-Mainstream Schools and Educational Outcomes of Children in Care

The NSPCC regularly surveys the public about abuse. Picture: NSPCC

Identifying better responses to child abuse

Virtual schools are local authority teams that support the learning of children in care. Picture: Highwaystarz/Adobe Stock

Improving the Effectiveness of Virtual Schools