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Government to clarify serious case review criteria

    News
  • Thursday, November 13, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Guidance on serious case reviews (SCRs) is to be clarified in a bid to address reluctance among local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) to initiate them, children's minister Edward Timpson has announced.

ADCS past-president calls for Nice for children's services

    News
  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The inaugural president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has called for the creation of an institute for excellence in children's services to tackle long-standing problems with child protection practice.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

    News
  • Friday, October 24, 2014
    • | CYP Now
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.

Doncaster's deliverer

    Other
  • Monday, October 13, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Neil Puffett speaks to Paul Moffat, chief executive, Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

    News
  • Wednesday, October 8, 2014
    • | CYP Now
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.

Steep rise in serious case reviews

    News
  • Thursday, September 25, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The number of serious case reviews (SCRs) carried out into cases of child deaths or severe abuse have risen by more than 50 per cent in the space of just a year.

Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation

    News
  • Friday, September 12, 2014
    • | CYP Now
A group of local authorities will face Ofsted inspections on the way they deal with child sexual exploitation (CSE) in a bid to ensure services are up to scratch in the wake of the Rotherham scandal, CYP Now can reveal.

Louise Casey to lead Rotherham Council probe

    News
  • Thursday, September 11, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The government's troubled families tsar Louise Casey will conduct an investigation into Rotherham Council in the wake of the child sexual exploitation scandal, it has been announced.

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