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Blame games make the job of a DCS untenable

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 15, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Last Friday, the Reading Post published a story about how children's services in the town received only one application for each of the three senior social worker jobs it advertised. On the same day, the Coventry Telegraph reported that 30 demonstrators had gathered outside the city's town hall calling for more action to be taken against the agencies involved in the Daniel Pelka case.

Children's services need clarity of accountability

    Other
  • Tuesday, August 20, 2013
  • | CYP Now
The government's proposals to transfer responsibility for children's social services in Doncaster from the local council to an independent trust have come under attack from Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones in her detailed response to the plans.

One small step for care, one giant leap required

    Other
  • Monday, April 29, 2013
  • | CYP Now
The high-profile cases of children in residential care going missing and being sexually exploited in the past year have sent shockwaves through our society. Last week, the government responded by announcing some important reforms.

Children's home system is in urgent need of care

    Other
  • Monday, July 9, 2012
  • | CYP Now
The government's welcome resolve to tackle child sexual exploitation in the wake of the notorious Rochdale child-grooming ring has, inevitably, opened a can of worms over the treatment of children in residential care.

Child sexual exploitation victims must be heard

    Other
  • Monday, May 14, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Child sexual exploitation is often described as one of the great "hidden" scourges in society. But it was propelled into the spotlight in all its sickening brutality last week after nine men from Rochdale and Oldham were sentenced to jail, having plied vulnerable girls with drugs and alcohol and passed ?them around for sex.

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