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SEN checks must focus on local progress, not just crude ratings

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  • Tuesday, February 3, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The disability and special educational needs reforms, with joined-up education, health and care plans at their heart, are finally starting to bite. They make complete sense to me, with a far greater focus on children's strengths rather than their weaknesses, and a requirement that professionals will work together as a team to wrap support around the family.

Future ADCS president warns of challenge to save DCS role

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  • 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.

Give councils more powers to help underperforming schools

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for local school commissioners to be introduced to co-ordinate the creation of new school places, support and challenge academies, and broker school improvement services.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

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  • 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

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  • 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.

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

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  • Wednesday, September 3, 2014
  • | CYP Now
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.