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Opinion: Who carries the can when things go wrong in childsafeguarding?
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Opinion
- Monday, May 12, 2014
What did you think last month when you heard that the Prime Minister of South Korea had offered his resignation in the wake of the
ferry disaster? I don't suppose anybody thought that the PM had been at the helm of the ship that sunk, or that he could personally be held to blame for any lapses in the training of supervision of the ferry. But
the culture in South Korea expects that those in highest authority carry responsibility for anything that goes wrong.
Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.
Vetting agency must foster responsibility
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Opinion
- Monday, March 19, 2012
Keeping children safe from abuse is always a highly charged topic. It is naturally the first priority of most parents. It is vital for children's services departments, since a high-profile child abuse case causes untold damage not just to the child but to the whole service.
Workforce development must survive break-up
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Opinion
- Monday, March 19, 2012
The lights are about to go out on the Children's Workforce Development Council, with its functions hived off to a number of separate agencies.
Army of childminders can help bridge the gap
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Opinion
- Monday, February 20, 2012
Social mobility is thankfully all the rage these days, and the free childcare entitlement is a crucial policy to help all children get the best start in life regardless of background.
A very tall order with a short deadline
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Opinion
- Monday, February 20, 2012
Across the country, newly formed local teams are embarking on a colossal exercise. In every area, local authorities have until next month to quantify how many troubled families live in each area and set out how they are going to help them turn their lives around.
End service barriers to give families a boost
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Opinion
- Friday, August 19, 2011
There have been numerous government-sponsored reviews over the past few months: Graham Allen on early intervention, Frank Field on social mobility, Dame Clare Tickell on the early years and Eileen Munro on child protection.
Private finance can intervene now, but not for generations
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Opinion
- Monday, July 11, 2011
Early intervention is popular right now in theory, but in many areas is being decimated in practice.
Never mind the inspectorate, recruit the right inspectors
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Opinion
- Monday, April 18, 2011
On the face of it, the education select committee's call to split Ofsted into two separate inspectorates for education and children's care would represent a further step away from services centred on the needs of the whole child. It is a trend played out in several areas through the disappearance of children's trust arrangements and local authority children's services departments.
ECM might be dead in name but its substance endures
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Opinion
- Monday, March 21, 2011
The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda has been something of a taboo for the past 10 months.
Fighting for survival
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Opinion
- Monday, February 14, 2011
A manager at one voluntary organisation talks about what the cuts have meant for her project's work, the fight to keep it going and her fears for the future.
Progress in joint working must go on
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Opinion
- Monday, November 22, 2010
The decision last week to strip the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) of government funding will inevitably raise concerns that any genuine "development" of the workforce will stall. A plan for how the Department for Education intends to take forward the quango's work is yet to be articulated.
Sir Philip Green right to propose centralised approach
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Opinion
- Monday, October 25, 2010
Sir Philip Green has spotted that the government is inefficient. It buys laptops and paper for wildly different and inflated prices, and manages its property portfolio appallingly. He proposes centralisation, and who could argue against that? A central agency could distribute supplies much more cheaply than every business unit buying their own.
Baton passes to local councillors
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Opinion
- Monday, October 25, 2010
Its significance takes on epic proportions but the four-year comprehensive spending review was not, in the event, Armageddon.
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