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Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Friday, June 20, 2014

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Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

Daily roundup: Childcare training, education outcomes and Ofsted inspections

Monday, June 30, 2014

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Early years bursary scheme funds a handful of applicants; gifted poor children less likely than affluent peers to attend top universities; and Bournemouth children's services requires improvement says Ofsted, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Homelessness, safeguarding, and looked-after children.

Friday, June 27, 2014

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Increasing number of young people reported sleeping rough; new chair of safeguarding board appointed in Sandwell; and NICE publishes best practice briefing on looked-after children, all in the news today.

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Thursday, March 21, 2013

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An independent panel of experts will be created to vet the decisions of local safeguarding children board chairs under revised safeguarding guidance published today.

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

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Nearly six months since professor Alexis Jay's report revealed the extent of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, the government's troubled families tsar Louise Casey's has pulled no punches in her assessment of how the authority has fared since.

Lack of support to blame for care leaver housing problems, report finds

Monday, September 21, 2015

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Children's services departments are not doing enough to secure good quality housing support for care leavers and other vulnerable teenagers, The Children's Society has said.

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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Children's services chiefs are being called upon to share information about how their departments can deliver effective services while managing challenging budgets.

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

Call for council collaboration over care leaver housing

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

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Local authorities should set up agreements to allow looked-after children placed in their areas from other parts of the country to access local housing support when they leave care, a charity says.

Ofsted awards first ‘outstanding' ratings for children's services

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

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Two local authorities have become the first to be awarded "outstanding" judgments under Ofsted's controversial inspection framework for children's services.

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

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Children's services in Blackpool are improving but problems remain with support for care leavers and planning for looked-after children, inspectors have found.

Corbyn names Lucy Powell shadow education secretary

Monday, September 14, 2015

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New Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn has appointed Lucy Powell shadow education secretary.

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

Friday, November 27, 2015

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

Government climbdown on plan to scrap council crisis fund

Thursday, September 18, 2014

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The government is to reconsider plans to scrap a fund that helps support young people in crisis after legal action was launched to challenge the decision.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

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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.

BASW to take on College of Social Work functions

Thursday, August 20, 2015

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The British Association of Social Work (BASW) is to take on the majority of functions performed by The College of Social Work (TCSW) from next month, it has been announced.

Peer landlords: Helping others to feel at home

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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The Peer Landlord scheme sees young people supporting others to live independently. Emily Rogers visited the south London housing initiative to find out how it works.

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

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A council's children's services department has been rated as "requires improvement" by Ofsted after inspectors found a number of areas that need to be addressed.

Care leavers will be hit by reduction in housing services

Friday, March 25, 2011

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Housing professionals have warned that budget cuts will result in a loss of support for vulnerable young people.

Children's social workers face knowledge test

Thursday, July 31, 2014

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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.

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