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Government to clarify serious case review criteria

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  • 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 calls for Ofsted workforce shake-up

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  • Friday, October 31, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Ofsted must recruit existing children's services professionals to inspect local authority social care arrangements if it is to boost confidence in its judgments, the head of the Association of Directors of children's Services (ADCS) has said.

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.

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.

Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation

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  • 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.