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Blame games make the job of a DCS untenable

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 15, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Last Friday, the Reading Post published a story about how children's services in the town received only one application for each of the three senior social worker jobs it advertised. On the same day, the Coventry Telegraph reported that 30 demonstrators had gathered outside the city's town hall calling for more action to be taken against the agencies involved in the Daniel Pelka case.

Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation

    News
  • 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.

Doncaster's deliverer

    Other
  • Monday, October 13, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Neil Puffett speaks to Paul Moffat, chief executive, Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

ADCS past-president calls for Nice for children's services

    News
  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The inaugural president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has called for the creation of an institute for excellence in children's services to tackle long-standing problems with child protection practice.

DfE considers intervening at West Midlands council

    News
  • Wednesday, September 23, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The Department for Education is considering whether to intervene in the running of a council's children's services that has been subject to three damning Ofsted reports in the past two years.