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Slough children's services to become independent trust

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  • Wednesday, October 8, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

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  • Friday, October 24, 2014
  • | CYP Now
A lack of authority-wide support for change and an "arcane" IT system were key reasons for slow progress in improving children's services in Somerset, the council's former director of children's services (DCS) has claimed.

Labour calls for investigation into children's care charges

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  • Thursday, August 15, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Shadow children's minister Lisa Nandy is calling for an investigation into how many councils are planning to levy charges for taking children into care after Wakefield Council became the latest local authority to confirm it is considering such a move.

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