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Children's services leaders call for wholesale changes to Ofsted inspection system

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

| CYP Now

The current Ofsted inspection system for children's services should be scrapped and replaced with a light-touch but better-targeted approach, children's services and local authority leaders say.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

Call for youth group collaboration to increase influence

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Friday, April 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth groups are being urged to form a lobbying alliance to get a better deal for the sector from the next government.

MPs elect Neil Carmichael as education committee chair

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

| CYP Now

Neil Carmichael has been elected as chair of the parliamentary education committee, seeing off competition from former children's minister Tim Loughton.

Administrators complete transfer of BAAF services

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Friday, September 25, 2015

| CYP Now

All remaining UK functions of the collapsed charity the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) have now been transferred to other organisations, according to its administrators.

Ofsted rates government-imposed children's services trust 'inadequate'

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Friday, November 27, 2015

| CYP Now

An independent children's services trust that was established on government orders has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

SEN inspection plans 'unsustainable', say children's services chiefs

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to assess an area's special educational needs (SEN) provision are "untimely and unsustainable", according to the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS).

Andrew Christie appointed Birmingham children's social care commissioner

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Tri-borough children's services director Andrew Christie has been appointed as the new independent commissioner for children's social care at Birmingham City Council. ??

Third London youth zone gets green light

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Plans to build a £6m state-of-the-art youth zone have been given the go-ahead by a London council.

DfE refuses to ditch independent trust drive

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Thursday, October 13, 2016

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has dismissed calls for it to stop taking responsibility for failing children's services out of local authorities' hands until there is evidence that it improves standards.

NCAS conference: ADCS president urges investment to reduce care numbers

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils must invest heavily in early intervention services in order to stem recent increases in the number of children being taken into care.

Ofsted strikes defiant note in furore over ‘one-word' social care judgments

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Friday, October 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted director of social care Debbie Jones has hit back at criticism that the new single inspections framework ignores the complexity of services and undermines confidence.

Youth services 'face oblivion' unless they pursue social investment

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Monday, February 27, 2017

| CYP Now

Youth services are in existential crisis and face oblivion unless they change the way they are funded and take advantage of social investment opportunities, a leading figure in the sector has warned.

Greenwich outsources all its children's centres

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The Royal Borough of Greenwich has selected a mixture of schools, charities and a leisure trust to run its 24 children's centres from April this year.

Ofsted inspection guidance gets overhaul

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Monday, May 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted has overhauled its inspection guidance for childcare providers following concerns that it was too confusing.

Government accused of allowing 'back door' privatisation of child protection

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Friday, June 27, 2014

| CYP Now

Private companies will be able to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans via the "back door" by setting up separate subsidiaries, it has been claimed.

Nicky Morgan appointed Education Secretary as Gove and Truss depart

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Nicky Morgan has been appointed Secretary of State for Education as part of a surprisingly sweeping Cabinet reshuffle that has seen a number of children's sector ministerial posts change hands.

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly 500 children in Manchester were potentially left at risk because social work assessments were not carried out quickly enough, a report that has rated the city's children's services as "inadequate", has found.

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.

NDNA urges early years expertise in new school inspection framework

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Friday, October 10, 2014

| CYP Now

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has warned that the move to a single inspection framework covering all education provision must not lead to further "schoolification" of the early years.

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Children's services leaders call for wholesale changes to Ofsted inspection system

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Call for youth group collaboration to increase influence

MPs elect Neil Carmichael as education committee chair

Administrators complete transfer of BAAF services

Ofsted rates government-imposed children's services trust 'inadequate'

SEN inspection plans 'unsustainable', say children's services chiefs

Andrew Christie appointed Birmingham children's social care commissioner

Third London youth zone gets green light

DfE refuses to ditch independent trust drive

NCAS conference: ADCS president urges investment to reduce care numbers

Ofsted strikes defiant note in furore over ‘one-word' social care judgments

Youth services 'face oblivion' unless they pursue social investment

Greenwich outsources all its children's centres

Ofsted inspection guidance gets overhaul

Government accused of allowing 'back door' privatisation of child protection

Nicky Morgan appointed Education Secretary as Gove and Truss depart

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

Slough children's services to become independent trust

NDNA urges early years expertise in new school inspection framework

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