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Daniel Pelka SCR: Practitioners must be bolder in acting on concerns, says sector

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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Professional bodies and child protection campaigners have said all practitioners working with children must be more prepared to intervene if they are concerned that a child is being abused or neglected.

Daniel Pelka SCR: Children's minister questions methods used in review

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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Children and families minister Edward Timpson has questioned the investigation methods used by Coventry Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) in its serious case review (SCR) into the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka.

Consultancy boss voices concerns on government's Doncaster blueprint

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

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Government plans to strip Doncaster Council of responsibility for children's services risk affecting the quality of services, the head of a private consulting company has said.

Handling a child protection crisis

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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College of Social Work chief Annie Hudson urges agencies and professionals to engage with the media.

Children's services need clarity of accountability

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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The government's proposals to transfer responsibility for children's social services in Doncaster from the local council to an independent trust have come under attack from Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones in her detailed response to the plans.

Daily roundup: Adoption figures, Doncaster and anti-gay school rules

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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Adoptions increase at fastest rate for 15 years, Hackney DCS to lead Doncaster changes, and DfE to probe policies banning 'promotion' of homosexuality, all in the news today.

Ask the Expert: Single assessments

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

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Doncaster experiment is sure to yield lessons

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

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Education Secretary Michael Gove's decision to remove Doncaster Council's powers to provide children's social care is a landmark move.

Daily roundup: Play strategy, DCS to retire early, and genital mutilation

Monday, June 24, 2013

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Scotland gets its first national play strategy, Norfolk's children's services boss retires early, and the NSPCC opens a female genital mutilation helpline, all in the news today.

Doncaster brings in Impower to overhaul children's services

Thursday, June 20, 2013

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Doncaster Council has appointed consultants Impower and Penna to help it turn around its failing children's services department.

Daily roundup: Childcare in schools, perinatal mental health and domestic abuse

Monday, June 17, 2013

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Minister moots late opening schools plan; report warns of postcode lottery for perinatal mental health, and serious case review identifies missed opportunities, all in the news today.

Effective Working with Neglected Children and their Families: Linking Interventions to Long-term Outcomes

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

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Authors Elaine Farmer and Eleanor Lutman; Jessica Kingsley Publishers; ISBN 978-1-84905-288-7; £25; 240pp

Child safeguarding: leaders' debate

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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Children's services leaders from councils across England discussed the current challenges of safeguarding children at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with 4Children. Ravi Chandiramani reports

Birmingham chief vows to improve inadequate services within a year

Monday, April 29, 2013

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The second city's new children's services chief Peter Duxbury has put staff stability and support networks at the heart of his strategy to turn around the council's unenviable record on safeguarding children

Working Together to Safeguard Children: key revisions explained

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

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It has been two years in the making, but the revised Working Together guidance has finally been published. The new, streamlined version contains crucial information for all those with a role in safeguarding children

Daily roundup: School sports, tooth decay and academies

Monday, March 18, 2013

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£150m for primary school sport, 41 per cent of children in Wales suffer tooth decay by five, and concerns over cost of academies in Birmingham, all in the news today.

Parents to foot bill for putting children in care

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

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Worcestershire parents who put their children into care could be made to pay the cost under council plans.

'Pioneering' children's services partnership given green light

Friday, November 9, 2012

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A private firm has been signed up to improve children's services at Sandwell Council over the next two-and-a-half years, in what is though to be the first initiative of its kind.

Daily round up: Blackburn DCS drafted into Rochdale, Ofsted complaints, and profit-making schools

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

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Rochdale appoints an interim head of children's social services, Ofsted is criticised over its new complaints framework, and a call for profit-making firms to take charge of the worst schools, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Protecting social workers online, school places and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

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Social workers call for protection from online abuse, Stephen Twigg advocates for local authority oversight of school place planning, and Channel 4 adverts banned for negative depictions of children, all in the news today.

Daily round up: College of Social Work row, competitive sports and the link between weight gain and psychosis

Monday, October 1, 2012

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The row over the future of social work representation re-ignites, a report calls for less emphasis on competitive sports, and tackling obesity among young people with mental illness, all in the news today.

Ask the Expert: Raising funds for niche charities

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

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Private sector provider sought to revamp children's services in Sandwell

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

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Sandwell Council has outlined plans to draft in private sector support to help run its children's services department for two and a half years.

'Terrifying' welfare reforms will drive up care referrals, warns Munro

Friday, July 6, 2012

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The architect of the government's child protection reforms has warned that changes to welfare policy could inadvertently increase the number of children being referred to social care services.

Government announces overhaul of child protection procedures

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

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National timescales for assessing children in need will be scrapped and guidance governing work with children drastically reduced, under the government's plans to overhaul procedures that it claims stifle the judgment of children's professionals.

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