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.
Plans to cut £150m from council funding for children’s services could ‘severely hamper’ town halls’ early intervention programmes and put Sure Start children’s centres at risk, the Local Government...
Procedures for delivering children’s care services are loaded in favour of local authority provision and are failing vulnerable Scottish youngsters, an alliance of third and private sector providers...
The government will cut another £10bn from the welfare budget within four years, targeting housing benefits for young people and payments for children, George Osborne told the Conservative Party...
The £1.25bn of funding being channelled through the pupil premium is not necessarily going to be well spent, both the Sutton Trust education charity and Ofsted have warned.
There is ‘not a snowball’s chance in hell’ that the government will reach the statutory target to eradicate child poverty by 2020, former Labour minister Alan Milburn said today.
Working families with children have been dealt a ‘triple financial blow’ in the recession through cuts to tax credits and rising costs of childcare and transport, according to the Joseph Rowntree...
Every eligible local authority in England has agreed to take part in the government's plan to turn round the lives of 120,000 problem families by 2015, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced...
Plans to cut the costs of the child maintenance system in the UK are ‘high risk’ and could end up increasing child poverty, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
The Scottish Care Inspectorate is to spearhead a strategic assessment of care services for children over the coming year, under plans published today in the latest local government inspection...
The government has been ‘inundated’ with more than 2,000 applications from schools to run summer schools funded by £50m of the pupil premium programme, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
The government’s assessments of individual adoption services, published today, lack credibility and could deter prospective adopters, councils have said.
Parents who persistently allow their children to miss school should have their Child Benefit docked, the government’s ‘behaviour czar’ has recommended.
The ten councils with the largest number of troubled families in England have agreed to join a government scheme that will pay them up to £4,000 for each problem household they help.
Every young person out of work for more than a year should be given a publicly funded ‘Youth Job Promise’, according to the independent experts examining last summer’s riots.
