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19 Apr 13
Almost a quarter of a million children are in nurseries that need to improve, Ofsted said today as it announced tougher inspections.
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12 Apr 13
Ofsted has ditched plans for separate inspections of child protection and looked-after children services following discussions with councils.
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3 Apr 13
Local authority bosses have put forward plans to speed up adoptions and keep councils involved in the recruitment of adoptive parents.
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19 Mar 13
The government is to ‘massively extend’ the tax-free childcare support available to working parents with young children, Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced...
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15 Mar 13
More than a quarter of a million extra school places will be needed in England next year, but it is not clear if the Department for Education has provided enough funding to meet demand, auditors...
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6 Mar 13
Local authorities should be legally required to provide continuing support to adoptive parents, peers said today.
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6 Mar 13
There are still big gaps in childcare provision in the UK despite councils’ obligations to ensure adequate services, according to a survey published today.
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4 Mar 13
Councils in England have helped to improve the lives of more than 1,600 problem families in just nine months, according to figures published today.
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20 Feb 13
Child poverty campaigners are pressing councils to prioritise the needs of low-income families as figures published today showed wide disparities in wealth across the UK.
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8 Feb 13
More than 2 million deprived children in the UK are not counted in the government’s child poverty measures, the Policy Exchange think-tank said today.
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29 Jan 13
Councils are to lose their power to inspect and assess local child care services, ministers have announced.
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24 Jan 13
A £150m funding cut to local authority children’s services is to be returned as part of reforms to the adoption system, the government has announced.
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23 Jan 13
Early results from the cross-government Troubled Families Programme indicate that effective intervention can save councils substantial sums, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said today.
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22 Jan 13
The government’s decision to transfer the statutory careers guidance duty for young people from councils to schools is ‘regrettable’, MPs have said.
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15 Jan 13
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service should be subject to a single annual inspection from September, Ofsted has proposed.
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15 Jan 13
Councils are calling on the government to explain why it has made new and unexpected cuts of almost £50m to funds intended to support disadvantaged children and families.
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14 Jan 13
Councils have urged the government to speed up reforms to the adoption system, warning that ‘ridiculous’ bureaucracy is hampering attempts to recruit more parents.
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7 Jan 13
Government plans to limit benefits increases to 1% in each of the next three years will push more families into poverty, campaigners warned today.
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4 Jan 13
Imminent changes to eligibility for Child Benefit will create ‘incoherence’ in the welfare system, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
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18 Dec 12
Health providers should be legally compelled to provide Special Educational Needs services and assessments, according to MPs.
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17 Dec 12
Almost 25,000 extra nursery places will be required in London next year to meet a pledge by the deputy prime minister to provide free part-time early-years education for the poorest 20% of two-year-...
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30 Nov 12
Councils have criticised the latest publication of adoption scorecards by the government, warning that the data could lead to ‘misleading’ comparisons between authorities.
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19 Nov 12
Education Secretary Michael Gove has urged local authorities to take more at-risk children into care, saying an increase in young people being looked after by councils was not a cause for concern.
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15 Nov 12
Ministers are consulting on a new measure of child poverty, saying the current focus on relative income excludes other vital factors.
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6 Nov 12
Reductions in local government funding could lead to some abused children falling through the social services net, MPs warned today.
19 Apr 13Almost a quarter of a million children are in nurseries that need to improve, Ofsted said today as it announced tougher inspections.
3 Apr 13Local authority bosses have put forward plans to speed up adoptions and keep councils involved in the recruitment of adoptive parents.
15 Mar 13More than a quarter of a million extra school places will be needed in England next year, but it is not clear if the Department for Education has provided enough funding to meet demand, auditors...
23 Jan 13Early results from the cross-government Troubled Families Programme indicate that effective intervention can save councils substantial sums, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said today.
22 Jan 13The government’s decision to transfer the statutory careers guidance duty for young people from councils to schools is ‘regrettable’, MPs have said.
4 Jan 13Imminent changes to eligibility for Child Benefit will create ‘incoherence’ in the welfare system, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
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