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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.

Rotherham DCS quits in wake of abuse scandal

    News
  • Friday, September 19, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Joyce Thacker, director of children's services (DCS) at Rotherham Council, has left the post in the wake of the child sexual exploitation (CSE) scandal to hit the town.

Doncaster's deliverer

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