Children’s services at the council which was heavily criticised for failings over the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka have been criticised for not improving quickly enough after being branded inadequate
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Children will get more access to nursery provision, free school meals and increased care support as part of a wide-ranging legislation approved by MSPs last night. The Children and Young
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An academic from Queen’s University Belfast has called for a more rigorous evaluation of how money is spent on improving children’s lives. Dr Liam O’Hare said that despite Northern Ireland’s
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Slough Borough Safeguarding Children Board are to challenge the ‘inadequate’ ofsted rating given to the local council’s children’s services. In the report published this week, Slough Borough Council’s children’s service
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Plans to appoint a named guardian for every child are almost certain to be subjected to legal challenge if they are approved at Holyrood, the Tories have claimed. The controversial
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SNP plans to appoint a so-called guardian for every child have met opposition from another religious body. The Evangelical Alliance Scotland wants to discuss the proposal, outlined in the Scottish
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Slough Borough Council has been told there are ‘widespread and serious’ failures in its looked-after children services. Ofsted has ranked the authority inadequate, saying its social care services have not
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The Chair of Doncaster’s new Children’s Services Trust has been named as Colin Hilton CBE. The Trust will take responsibility for delivery of Doncaster’s children’s social care services this year,
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