The Care Council for Wales (CCW) have announced draft practice guidance for residential child care workers. The Residential Child Care Worker builds on the Code of Practice for Social Care
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The Social Services Improvement Agency (SSIA) for Wales has named an expert panel to conduct a detailed peer review of children’s services within Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. Initiated
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Manchester’s child protection services have been downgraded to ‘inadequate’ by government inspectors. A report from Ofsted found Manchester City Council took ‘insufficient action’ to address local problems, which saw 486
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The Scottish Journal for Residential Child Care will be publishing a special edition in Summer 2015 on issues related to management and leadership in residential child care. The editors are
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Services for children and young people in East Renfrewshire are performing well, providing excellent support to families, a new report has revealed. It follows a joint inspection led by the
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Northumberland Council has been asked to improve its Children’s Services complaints procedure following an investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO). The LGO has issued a report into the council
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The number of children in council care in England has risen by 12%, with overall costs calculated at £3.4 billion. There were 68,110 children in care on March 31 2013,
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Birmingham City Council has announced that it has appointed Bernadette McNally as Executive Director of Children’s Services. Ms McNally is currently executive director of social services at the Belfast Health
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Ofsted have found Buckinghamshire County Council’s children’s services to be ‘inadequate’ in a new inspection report published on Friday. The inspectors found performance unsatisfactory in leadership, management and the way
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How life has changed for the thousands of Scottish children in care will be examined by the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Culture Committee when it hears evidence from care leavers
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