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Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

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  • Monday, September 28, 2015
    • | CYP Now
There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).

How charities can demonstrate social value to commissioners

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  • Tuesday, March 17, 2015
    • | CYP Now
The way public services are commissioned is undergoing considerable change, but charities pitched into competition for funding with private companies have a possible advantage - as long as they can demonstrate the additional social values they provide above and beyond the primary aims of a project.

Give councils more powers to help underperforming schools

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for local school commissioners to be introduced to co-ordinate the creation of new school places, support and challenge academies, and broker school improvement services.

Our children's services need an institute for excellence

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
    • | CYP Now
I've attended dozens of meetings and presentations about how children's services could and should be improved. Almost none of this has had any lasting impact. I've come to the view that we need something like the National Institute for National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) in the NHS, a National Institute for Children's Services Excellence that would promote best practice, with professional authority and based on the evidence. This conclusion is driven by the recognition that nothing else has worked.

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