Oxfordshire County Council’s children’s services has been rated ‘good’ by Ofsted. The inspection covered services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers. More
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An Ofsted inspection of Knowsley Council’s children’s service has found widespread failures rating them “inadequate”. Inspectors said the council had a high turnover of social workers in assessment and safeguarding
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The inspectorate for education and children’s services began consultation on proposals for the integrated inspection of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after, and care
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From April 2015, the way the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspect multi-agency arrangements that help, protect and care for vulnerable children and young people is changing. A new, integrated approach
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Cuts to mental health services for children have led to a national “crisis” in services across England, a charity has warned. Children and young people’s mental health charity YoungMinds said
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A joint inspection of services for children and young people in Clackmannanshire has highlighted areas of good performance and also made recommendations where further improvement can be made. The report
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Children’s services at one of the country’s biggest councils have been rated inadequate again, extending more than 10 years failure to protect the most vulnerable youngsters from serious risk of
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Child protection services are far too important to be exposed to the “fickleness and failings” of private sector organisations, according to a group of academics. Almost 40 senior social services
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The Government’s Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme seeks to support the development, testing and sharing of more effective ways of supporting children who need help from children’s social care services.
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Researchers at York University are launching a project to examine what works best for abused or neglected children – going into care or staying at home with support. The study
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