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Senior Tories call for cabinet-level families post
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- Wednesday, September 6, 2017
More than 50 Tory MPs and peers are calling on the government to create a cabinet-level families minister post to better co-ordinate family policy across departments.
Ofsted rates third council ‘inadequate' in space of week
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- Monday, May 18, 2015
West Berkshire Council has become the third local authority in the space of a week to have its children's services department rated "inadequate" after Ofsted inspectors found serious failures in services.
Social work set free to innovate
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- Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire are among the authorities chosen to take part in the Partners in Practice programme to transform children's social care. Eileen Fursland finds out about their plans.
Birmingham sees huge fall in identification of vulnerable children
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- Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Birmingham Council is taking action to improve the way child protection tip-offs are acted on following a worrying drop in the numbers of children subject to protection plans.
Hilary Emery quits as NCB chief executive
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- Tuesday, February 18, 2014
The chief executive of the National Children's Bureau is to step down after three years in charge, it has been announced.
Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims
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- Thursday, February 13, 2014
Wilshaw reveals he called for Ofsted chair to remain; leaving foster care age for young people in Wales raised; and £500,000 fund set up to help male victims of rape, all in the news today.
Children's charities criticise focus of government spending plans
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- Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Children's charities have criticised the government for failing to prioritise the needs of children in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.
Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation
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- Friday, September 12, 2014
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.
Children's social care spending rises five per cent
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- Thursday, August 28, 2014
Local authority spending on children's social care has increased by more than five per cent in a single year, government figures show.
Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection
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- Tuesday, June 23, 2015
More local authority children's services departments will be taken out of council control in order to tackle failure, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
Cameron extends Troubled Families programme to 500,000
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- Monday, August 18, 2014
The number of troubled families receiving intensive government support to turn their lives around is to be increased from 120,000 to 500,000.
Integrated care service vital to help support troubled families
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- Monday, August 4, 2014
Integrated care is an idea with legs. It is gaining currency among the major political parties, as they realise that the segregation of health and social care, for example, leads to waste, duplication and gaps through which service users easily fall.
Serious case reviews need reform, say academics
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- Monday, July 21, 2014
Inquiries into child deaths must be reformed so frontline practice can be improved to prevent further tragedies, a major study has concluded.
The future of children's services: proactive, predictive and digital
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- Tuesday, March 15, 2016
If children's services are to deliver improved outcomes with declining resources, the sector must embrace technology, joint working and volunteers, says Pillars and Foundations, a radical paper from the ADCS.
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