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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.

DfE study to inform Spending Review 'not completed in time'

    News
  • Friday, December 4, 2015
  • | CYP Now
A study ordered by the Department for Education (DfE) in order to inform decisions made at last month's Spending Review about how children's services will be funded over the next five years is yet to be completed, CYP Now can reveal.

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.

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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