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LOCAL AUTHORITIES: DfES plans flexible council structures

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  • Tuesday, February 3, 2004
  • | CYP Now
The Department for Education and Skills is drawing up models for the integration of local authority education and children's social services departments. It follows concerns from councils about the enforced merger of departments.

NEWS IN BRIEF: Luton children's services praised in review

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  • Tuesday, February 10, 2004
  • | CYP Now
Luton Borough Council's children's services have been praised in a joint review. The report said the council had developed a good range of family support services, high-quality assessments were undertaken, and sound systems of care management and support for looked-after children had been developed. However, there was room for improvement in the "timelines" of case conferences and reviews. Visit www.audit-commission.gov.uk.

NEWS IN BRIEF: New charity Working Families launched

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  • Tuesday, February 10, 2004
  • | CYP Now
More than three-fifths of people would like to spend an extra hour a day with their families, according to a new charity. Sarah Jackson, the chief executive of Working Families, called for "more opportunities for people to work flexibly" at the charity's launch last Saturday. Visit www.workingfamilies.org.uk.

RESOURCES: Review - Less a boy's Sugar than son of Loaded

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  • Tuesday, February 10, 2004
  • | CYP Now
Publishers of girls' magazines such as Sugar and J-17 like to boast about how many boys read them. They don't buy them, they just nick their sisters' copies. Sorted, a new magazine aimed at 11- to 16-year-old boys, wants to take advantage of that and create a new category on the newsstand, at least according to the extensive pre-publicity it has received.

RESOURCES: Know How - How to deal with consultants

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  • Tuesday, February 10, 2004
  • | CYP Now
External consultants can unlock your organisation's problems with an injection of dynamism. Or they may be a couple of semi-retired mates paid a fortune to recommend what the chief exec wanted to do all along. PJ White helps you choose.

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