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Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

Unregistered children’s homes: Legal Update

Thursday, January 2, 2020

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As the number of children being taken into care continues to rise, Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at concerns regarding unregulated and unregistered children’s homes.

Shared Services: Special Report

Thursday, January 2, 2020

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Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local authorities to find a wider range of care options for vulnerable children and introduce a greater array of good practice approaches to improve outcomes.

Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died

Friday, November 27, 2015

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A children's services department that was providing support for three vulnerable children who died in the space of a month has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

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.

Police reformer: Olivia Pinkney, national lead for children and young people's policing

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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Derren Hayes meets Olivia Pinkney, the National Police Chiefs Council's lead officer for children and young people.

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

Monday, September 28, 2015

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The Prime Minister highlighted children's social care as ripe for reform in a speech this month, with failing services handed to trusts or other providers to run. Children's services experts give their views on what this means for the years ahead

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.

Government to consider intervention in Somerset children's services

Monday, March 30, 2015

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The Department for Education will consider intervening in the running of children's services in Somerset after the department was labelled "inadequate" by Ofsted for the second time in less than two years.

Ofsted tells two further authorities to improve children's services

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

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Two more English authorities have been told by Ofsted that their children's services are not up to scratch.

Future ADCS president warns of challenge to save DCS role

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

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Directors of children's services (DCSs) face a fight to protect their role, with more than half now responsible for other directorates or services, the vice president-elect of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has warned.

Ofsted calls for improvements at Bristol and Rochdale children's services

Friday, December 5, 2014

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Bristol and Rochdale have been told to improve the quality of services for children and young people following inspections by Ofsted.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

Friday, October 24, 2014

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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.

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

Monday, October 20, 2014

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Somerset County Council has announced it has terminated the contract of the interim director of children's services (DCS) for failing to deliver improvements at the struggling authority quickly enough.

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.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

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County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

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Children's services in Blackpool are improving but problems remain with support for care leavers and planning for looked-after children, inspectors have found.

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

Thursday, September 4, 2014

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Nearly 500 children in Manchester were potentially left at risk because social work assessments were not carried out quickly enough, a report that has rated the city's children's services as "inadequate", has found.

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

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It is now one week since an independent report by Professor Alexis Jay estimated that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. CYP Now looks at what has happened since publication last Tuesday.

Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

Thursday, August 21, 2014

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The cost of supporting children in care has reached £3.4bn, according to an Audit Commission report that exposes widespread variation of spending across councils.

Daily roundup: Haringey Ofsted, early intervention guidebook, and term-time holidays

Monday, July 21, 2014

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Haringey told to improve children's social care, major early intervention guide launched, and Nicky Morgan pledges to continue tough stance on term-time holidays, all in the news today.

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

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The government's consultation over allowing councils to delegate children's social care services to third parties was insufficient and needs further debate, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on child protection has said.

Government accused of allowing 'back door' privatisation of child protection

Friday, June 27, 2014

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Private companies will be able to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans via the "back door" by setting up separate subsidiaries, it has been claimed.

One in six authorities to face multi-agency inspections

Monday, June 23, 2014

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Up to 25 local authorities will be judged on their multi-agency child protection arrangements under new inspections being introduced in April 2015, it has been announced.

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.

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