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Mission to unify social work: Ruth Allen, BASW chief executive
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Adam Offord talks to Ruth Allen, chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers.
Research Report: National Survey of Injury Prevention Activities of Children's Centres
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2016
There is a lot of research into the role children's centres play in improving outcomes for disadvantaged families. However, researchers from the University of Nottingham were keen to investigate centres' role in preventing injuries to under-fives, an area not previously analysed. Previous research has found injuries disproportionately affect children from low-income families.
Big-picture inspection: guide to the new JTAI
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2016
New Joint Targeted Area Inspections to assess how different agencies are working together to support vulnerable children have just been launched. Joe Lepper explores how they work.
Leadership: Staff motivation and retention
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2016
All children's services teams face the challenge of keeping staff turnover low against a landscape of tight budgets, so it is essential employers master the skills to retain, motivate and reward employees.
Lessons from serious case reviews: Deaf and disabled children
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The NSPCC has analysed findings from hundreds of serious case reviews to assess key lessons for safeguarding practice. Here is a summary of the learnings for practice when working with deaf and disabled children.
Foundations to spur youth services
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Camden is latest to create a charitable foundation in a bid to increase capacity in voluntary youth provision.
Innovation and collaboration lands tri-borough ‘outstanding' ratings
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2016
A new social work practice model, low caseloads and joined-up services have helped two of the three councils in a merged children's services department become the first to be judged "outstanding" by Ofsted's inspection system.
Forced academisation plans risk our schools' impetus to improve
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2016
One of the more effective school improvement strategies of the last five years has been the threat of forced academisation.
Special Report: Attachment and Neglect
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2016
The importance of strong attachments from early childhood - and of tackling the damage caused by neglect where these attachments are lacking - is seeing greater recognition in both policy and practice.
Schools need proper scrutiny to guard against malpractice
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2016
One of the problems of democracy is that leaders have views on many issues, and citizens don't always agree with all of the policies of "their" party or their government. So, I find myself supporting the principle of the new national funding formula for schools while deeply opposing the academisation programme.
Learnings on school readiness
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Pilot scheme improved young children's transition to formal education through collaboration and involving families.
Government sets out blueprint to reverse decline in adoption
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Plans to reverse a fall in the number of children being adopted include changes to prioritise adoption over other forms of care, increased post-adoption support and speeding up the process of finding prospective adopters.
Innovation funding should help ‘inadequate' councils
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2016
In early 2014, the tri-borough councils in London became one of the first areas to benefit from the Department for Education's £100m, two-year Children's Social Care Innovation Fund.
Ask the Experts: Post-retirement work options
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- Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Our panel offers advice on working with children after retiring, joint commissioning, internet safety and the role of key workers.
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