Jane Moore is director of children and family services at Leicestershire County Council. Picture: Jane Moore/LinkedIn

The importance of permanency and belonging

The ADCS Blog
The government will cover half of costs incurred by the NTP for the next academic year. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

Ministers to double planned funding for tutoring scheme

Education
Dame Rachel de Souza: 'No child should be able to access or watch pornography'. Picture: Office of the children's commissioner for England

Children’s commissioner threatens legal action over government’s asylum plans

Social Care
Baroness Morris of Yardley: 'Unless the proposals go further and faster, the strategy will leave many children behind.' Picture: UK Parliament

Peers brand government’s Care Review response a ‘wasted opportunity’

Social Care
Charities have called for increased funding for early years settings. Picture: Adobe Stock

Childcare reforms will not benefit disadvantaged families, charities warn

Early Years
More than a thousand looked-after children are missing from education, report warns. Picture: fotoduets/Adobe Stock

Hundreds of children in care missing from school, de Souza warns

Social Care
'We don't know the true scope of childhood bereavement,' Lemon says. Picture: Mark Lemon

Campaigner calls for childhood bereavement register to improve support

Health
Mark Owers: 'These approaches will help to get everyone on the same page, speaking the same language about needs'

Better assessments key to the right support

Your Shout
Derren Hayes: 'The rationale behind RCCs feeds the ‘them and us’ narrative that has developed between public sector commissioners and private companies that provide care'

Non-profit provision the key to solving sufficiency

Management
Jo Davidson is an associate at The Staff College

Reform Ofsted to focus on improving outcomes

Ofsted
Mark Russell is chief executive of The Children's Society

Asylum reforms are a gamble with young lives

Social Care
John Pearce is the current ADCS president. Picture: ADCS

Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse could overwhelm councils, say DCSs

Social Care