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Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Friday, June 20, 2014

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Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

CYP Now Children in Care Supplement 2013

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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Providing a chance to thrive: How to secure the best outcomes for looked-after children against the backdrop of reduced budgets and rising demand.

Daily roundup: Missing babies, nurture groups, and play

Monday, June 9, 2014

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Nearly 20 babies reported missing from council care; research backs value of nurture groups; and £1.9m boost for play in Scotland, all in the news today.

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Thursday, March 21, 2013

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An independent panel of experts will be created to vet the decisions of local safeguarding children board chairs under revised safeguarding guidance published today.

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

Thursday, October 1, 2015

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The number of children being made subject to special guardianship orders (SGOs) is continuing to rise, government figures have shown.

Children to be removed from families as part of ‘randomised adoption trial'

Friday, April 1, 2016

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Scores of children will be removed from their birth parents under controversial government plans to prove the value of adoption, it has emerged.

Daily roundup: Outstanding schools, Teather quits, and foster carers

Monday, September 9, 2013

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Three out of four schools now judged as good or outstanding; former children's minister to step down as MP; and foster care myths exposed, all in the news today.

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

Ofsted awards first ‘outstanding' ratings for children's services

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

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Two local authorities have become the first to be awarded "outstanding" judgments under Ofsted's controversial inspection framework for children's services.

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

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A greater emphasis must be placed on relationships for children in care rather than the type of placement option, an inquiry by eight charities has found.

Labour 'to boost kinship care support'

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

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Labour wants to see more children at risk of being taken into care instead be given the chance to live with extended family members.

Ofsted rates government-imposed children's services trust 'inadequate'

Friday, November 27, 2015

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An independent children's services trust that was established on government orders has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

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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.

Courts deliver blow to government adoption drive

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

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The government's push on adoptions is facing a setback after it was claimed rises in the number of children being adopted will stall due to courts granting fewer adoption orders.

Concern as Ofsted ceases regulation of outsourced social work

Friday, May 29, 2015

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The children's sector has criticised the government's continuing drive to outsource children's social care after Ofsted this week ceased regulation of third-party providers.

BASW to take on College of Social Work functions

Thursday, August 20, 2015

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The British Association of Social Work (BASW) is to take on the majority of functions performed by The College of Social Work (TCSW) from next month, it has been announced.

Timpson strips Slough of responsibility for children's services

Thursday, April 24, 2014

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Children's services are to be delivered outside of council control in Slough as part of government efforts to improve performance.

Ofsted criticises Knowsley's 'inadequate' child protection services

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

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Children in Knowsley are being left at risk of harm due to serious failures in child protection services, a damning Ofsted report which labelled the authority "inadequate" has found.

Alison O'Sullivan to be ADCS president in 2015

Thursday, January 2, 2014

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The head of children's services for Kirklees has been announced as the vice president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services for 2014/15.

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

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A council's children's services department has been rated as "requires improvement" by Ofsted after inspectors found a number of areas that need to be addressed.

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

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In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the scale of child neglect, its long-term effect on children's wellbeing and how interventions can prevent and repair the damage caused to children's ability to form strong attachments with parents and carers.

Children's social workers face knowledge test

Thursday, July 31, 2014

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New children's social workers will have to pass a test of their knowledge in order to become an approved practitioner as part of government attempts to improve the quality of the profession, it has been announced.

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.

Warrington DCS to lead Ofsted's social care improvement work

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

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The head of children's services in Warrington has been appointed by Ofsted to spearhead attempts to improve social care across England.

Legal Update: Special guardianship orders

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

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Serious case review highlights need for rigorous assessments when placing a child with a special guardian, writes Kamena Dorling, head of policy & programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

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