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Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

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  • 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.

Coalition fails to improve care placements

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  • Thursday, November 27, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The coalition government has failed to make any progress in getting children into the right placement when they first enter care and ensuring it is close to their home, a damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

Children's social workers face knowledge test

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  • Thursday, July 31, 2014
    • | CYP Now
New children's social workers will have to pass a test of their knowledge in order to become an approved practitioner as part of government attempts to improve the quality of the profession, it has been announced.

Labour calls for investigation into children's care charges

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  • Thursday, August 15, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Shadow children's minister Lisa Nandy is calling for an investigation into how many councils are planning to levy charges for taking children into care after Wakefield Council became the latest local authority to confirm it is considering such a move.

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