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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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