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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.

Daily roundup: Childcare training, education outcomes and Ofsted inspections

Monday, June 30, 2014

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Early years bursary scheme funds a handful of applicants; gifted poor children less likely than affluent peers to attend top universities; and Bournemouth children's services requires improvement says Ofsted, all in the news today.

Cameron extends Troubled Families programme to 500,000

Monday, August 18, 2014

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The number of troubled families receiving intensive government support to turn their lives around is to be increased from 120,000 to 500,000.

Councils look to unite to deliver children's social care, survey finds

Monday, August 7, 2017

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A growing number of councils plan to join forces to run children's social care services, a government survey of children's services leaders has found.

Making adoption work

Monday, August 20, 2012

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Many adopted children suffer emotional difficulties that stem from their early childhood. As the government bids to boost adoption rates, Charlotte Goddard investigates post-adoption support for families and children

The future of foster care

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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Children's minister Edward Timpson has pledged to try to improve the lives of foster carers and the children they care for in six key areas. Joe Lepper asks what specific action is required

Independent fostering providers plead for greater autonomy

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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Plans to allow councils to delegate provision of children's social services to staff-led mutuals should be extended to cover independent fostering providers, the government has been told.

Benchmark all children's services to improve standards, report urges

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

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Data on all children's services provision currently on offer across England should be collected and made available to commissioners so they can make decisions based on what works best for vulnerable young people.

Independent children's services trust failing to protect children, Ofsted finds

Friday, July 27, 2018

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Ofsted has criticised failures to protect vulnerable young people and the slow pace of improvement at an "inadequate" children's services department that was taken over by an independent trust last year.

ADCS launches inquiry into the care system

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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Directors of children's services have launched an inquiry into the purpose of the care system, as part of plans to radically improve provision for looked-after children across the country.

Exclusive: Adoption breakdowns on the rise

Monday, January 29, 2018

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The number of adoptions that break down, resulting in a child being removed from a placement, have risen in recent years, despite government attempts to tackle the issue, an investigation by CYP Now has found.

Fostering stocktake proposals 'place vulnerable children at risk'

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

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Proposals put forward as part of a government-commissioned review of the fostering system would place vulnerable children at risk, a professional association has warned.

Competition authority set to authorise £400m fostering merger

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

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A major merger of fostering providers is set to be given the green light after regulators indicated they are happy with plans to sell on some elements of the business to other firms to avoid a monopoly.

Children and Social Work Act 2017: Care and adoption

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

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Three councils receive 'good' ratings for children's services

Friday, March 31, 2017

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Children's services at three councils have been rated as "good" following inspections by Ofsted.

Think-tank criticises councils over care support 'failings'

Monday, January 19, 2015

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Local authorities need to "step up" the support they offer to looked-after children and care leavers, according to a report from social policy think-tank, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).

Children's services in Leicester judged 'inadequate'

Monday, March 23, 2015

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Children's services in Leicester are "inadequate" and in urgent need of improvement, according to a damning inspection report by Ofsted.

Ofsted rates third council ‘inadequate' in space of week

Monday, May 18, 2015

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West Berkshire Council has become the third local authority in the space of a week to have its children's services department rated "inadequate" after Ofsted inspectors found serious failures in services.

Tory council boss hits out at government over Ofsted grading

Thursday, May 21, 2015

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The leader of a council where children's services were graded "inadequate" by Ofsted has blamed central government for falling standards.

Councils to receive £30m to speed up adoptions

Monday, July 6, 2015

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The government is to give councils £30m to encourage them to place children with adoptive parents outside their area.

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