The Government has been accused of failing to take action to help the nation’s most vulnerable youngsters. There has been an “alarming reluctance” by the Department for Education (DfE) to
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Many local councils are struggling to offer a good standard of care and protection for their most vulnerable youngsters, inspectors have warned. Children’s social services are still under “intense pressure”
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The pressures on the complaints system for children’s care services are being highlighted in a new report by the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) published today. In a number of case
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A joint inspection of services for children and young people in Aberdeen has highlighted areas of good performance and also made recommendations where further improvement can be made. The report,
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A joint inspection of services in South Lanarkshire has recommended that improvements are made to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and young people. The inspection, carried out in June and
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A social worker allocated to a boy in the years before he killed his foster carer has told an inquiry he was fond of the child. Scott McCabe described the
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Seven local authorities have been announced by Education Secretary Angela Constance as the first recipients of funding from the £100 million Attainment Scotland Fund. Glasgow, Dundee, Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire, North
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The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) have published a report today on Children’s Services in Monmouthshire County Council. The inspection, which took place in November 2014, looked closely
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A man whose wife was killed by their 13-year-old foster child has called for a close investigation into social work services. Bryan McKenzie, 40, outlined a series of concerns about
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Senior managers at a local authority have been criticised by the most senior family court judge in England and Wales over the way they handled a case involving a toddler
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