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Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Joint targeted area inspections began in 2016 with the aim of bringing a range of inspectorates together to assess how health and care services for children are delivered. Jo Stephenson assesses the learning so far.

Shared Services: Special Report

    Features
  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
  • | CYP Now
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.

Future ADCS president warns of challenge to save DCS role

    News
  • Wednesday, January 14, 2015
  • | CYP Now
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.

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

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  • 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.

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