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6 Sep 17
The Department for Education has appointed a commissioner for children's services at Croydon Council after a highly critical watchdog report.
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4 Sep 17
Only a tiny proportion of the extra £9.1bn allocated by the government for early years provision will reach the most disadvantaged children, a report for the Social Market Foundation has...
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21 Aug 17
Parents working full time on the national living wage (NLW) are significantly short of the income needed to give children an acceptable minimum living standard, the Child Poverty Action Group has...
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14 Aug 17
Cash-strapped local councils are not providing enough care for thousands of vulnerable children, a charity report has warned.
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9 Aug 17
Children’s services are at breaking point with 75% of councils overspending to keep vital protections in place, Local Government Association research has revealed.
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4 Aug 17
The poorest pupils have fallen further behind their non-disadvantaged peers since 2007, an Education Policy Institute report has found.
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3 Aug 17
The majority of complaints made against councils in 2016/17 relate to education and childrens’ services, an annual ombudsman report has stated.
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22 Jul 17
Councils have to house the equivalent of a new secondary school’s worth of homeless children every month, the Local Government Association has said.
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30 May 17
The Labour party has promised to extend 30 hours of free childcare per week to all two to four-year-olds, as part of their £5bn investment in childcare.
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18 Apr 17
Government plans to extend free childcare to 30 hours for three and four year olds should be scrapped in favour of a cheaper targeted approach to help poorer families, according to the Localis think-...
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11 Apr 17
Early years childcare services will receive an additional £50m in capital grants, the government has announced today.
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28 Mar 17
Around £3bn in child maintenance arrears are uncollectable, a National Audit Office investigation has found.
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22 Mar 17
Some schools in England could be facing a 7% funding cut after 2020 following the roll out of the revised national funding formula, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
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14 Mar 17
The National Citizen Service may no longer be justifiable because of high participant costs and a lack of transparency, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have said.
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9 Jan 17
Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to tackle the “hidden injustice” of mental illness, particularly among young people, by providing more training for teachers and companies in...
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20 Dec 16
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have accused the government of exaggerating savings generated by its initiative to ‘turn around’ the lives of 120,000 troubled families and concluded the...
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3 Nov 16
Central government funding to support the resettlement of unaccompanied migrant children by local councils is “wholly inadequate”, according to the president of the Association of Directors of...
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20 Oct 16
Local authorities’ “opaque and often ideological” resistance to outsourcing children’s services can be counter-productive to improving outcomes for young people, according to...
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18 Oct 16
An evaluation of the government’s Troubled Families programme has found the flagship scheme has failed to have any significant impact on key areas where it was meant to help, such as employment and...
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12 Oct 16
Actions taken by the Department for Education since 2010 to improve the quality of local child protection services have been “extremely disappointing”, the National Audit Office said...
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29 Sep 16
A Scottish Government report has accused the country’s councils of diverting millions of pounds of central government money away from supporting delivery of ministers’ free childcare pledge.
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21 Sep 16
Attempts to better join up public services remain on the periphery of the system due to organisational and psychological barriers to reform, a review has found.
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17 Aug 16
Senior local government figures have called for greater national co-ordination of support for unaccompanied children and young people who arrive in the UK ahead of a visit to the “Jungle...
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29 Jun 16
Weak leadership in England’s child services is letting down the most vulnerable children in society, according to an Ofsted report.
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20 Jun 16
Scotland’s auditor general has said she intends to keep a close eye on the Scottish government’s highly controversial plan to allocate every child in Scotland a public sector “named person” from...
6 Sep 17The Department for Education has appointed a commissioner for children's services at Croydon Council after a highly critical watchdog report.
4 Sep 17Only a tiny proportion of the extra £9.1bn allocated by the government for early years provision will reach the most disadvantaged children, a report for the Social Market Foundation has...
21 Aug 17Parents working full time on the national living wage (NLW) are significantly short of the income needed to give children an acceptable minimum living standard, the Child Poverty Action Group has...
14 Aug 17Cash-strapped local councils are not providing enough care for thousands of vulnerable children, a charity report has warned.
4 Aug 17The poorest pupils have fallen further behind their non-disadvantaged peers since 2007, an Education Policy Institute report has found.
3 Aug 17The majority of complaints made against councils in 2016/17 relate to education and childrens’ services, an annual ombudsman report has stated.
22 Jul 17Councils have to house the equivalent of a new secondary school’s worth of homeless children every month, the Local Government Association has said.
30 May 17The Labour party has promised to extend 30 hours of free childcare per week to all two to four-year-olds, as part of their £5bn investment in childcare.
28 Mar 17Around £3bn in child maintenance arrears are uncollectable, a National Audit Office investigation has found.
22 Mar 17Some schools in England could be facing a 7% funding cut after 2020 following the roll out of the revised national funding formula, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
14 Mar 17The National Citizen Service may no longer be justifiable because of high participant costs and a lack of transparency, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have said.
9 Jan 17Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to tackle the “hidden injustice” of mental illness, particularly among young people, by providing more training for teachers and companies in...
20 Dec 16MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have accused the government of exaggerating savings generated by its initiative to ‘turn around’ the lives of 120,000 troubled families and concluded the...
3 Nov 16Central government funding to support the resettlement of unaccompanied migrant children by local councils is “wholly inadequate”, according to the president of the Association of Directors of...
20 Oct 16Local authorities’ “opaque and often ideological” resistance to outsourcing children’s services can be counter-productive to improving outcomes for young people, according to...
17 Aug 16Senior local government figures have called for greater national co-ordination of support for unaccompanied children and young people who arrive in the UK ahead of a visit to the “Jungle...
20 Jun 16Scotland’s auditor general has said she intends to keep a close eye on the Scottish government’s highly controversial plan to allocate every child in Scotland a public sector “named person” from...
