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29 Aug 13
Rob Whiteman likes to pump up the volume, whether it’s belting out operatic arias or singing the praises of accountants. CIPFA’s new chief executive tells PF he intends to be a vocal presence in the...
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29 Aug 13
As the new term starts, Michael Gove’s education revolution continues apace. But where’s the evidence that academies and free schools will benefit the majority of pupils?
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8 Aug 13
More than 12,000 additional graduates are needed for work in nurseries and childcare, a think tank has said.
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6 Aug 13
Working families with a child under 12 could save up to £1,200 per year under the tax-free childcare scheme, Chancellor George Osborne has said.
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1 Aug 13
Around 340 carers will have their allowances backdated after an investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman discovered Liverpool City Council had been underpaying them for years.
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24 Jun 13
The government’s Troubled Families Programme is to be expanded to provide targeted help to an extra 400,000 households at risk of suffering from a number of social problems, the Treasury has...
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14 Jun 13
The number of children living in relative poverty has fallen by around a quarter since the financial crisis in 2007/08, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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11 Jun 13
Councils have warned that the government’s threat to remove local authorities from the process of recruiting and assessing potential child adopters could jeopardise recent improvements to the system.
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10 Jun 13
MPs have slammed two councils for being ‘inexcusably slow’ to realise local children were falling prey to widespread and organised sexual abuse rings.
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6 Jun 13
Government cuts might leave some councils unable to meet their statutory duties, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
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5 Jun 13
High levels of child poverty in the UK are costing the country at least £29bn every year, or more than £1,000 per household, research shows.
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13 May 13
Councils have begun to help more than a quarter of the 120,000 troubled families that Prime Minister David Cameron wants to ‘turn round’ by 2015, the government announced today.
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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.
29 Aug 13Rob Whiteman likes to pump up the volume, whether it’s belting out operatic arias or singing the praises of accountants. CIPFA’s new chief executive tells PF he intends to be a vocal presence in the...
29 Aug 13As the new term starts, Michael Gove’s education revolution continues apace. But where’s the evidence that academies and free schools will benefit the majority of pupils?
8 Aug 13More than 12,000 additional graduates are needed for work in nurseries and childcare, a think tank has said.
24 Jun 13The government’s Troubled Families Programme is to be expanded to provide targeted help to an extra 400,000 households at risk of suffering from a number of social problems, the Treasury has...
6 Jun 13Government cuts might leave some councils unable to meet their statutory duties, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
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.
