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<img alt="ADCS conference: Zahawi announces plans to launch Care Leaver Covenant in October" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/9fe53306-153e-4d00-a48c-b17057742ef5/5/NadhimZahawi-320x198.jpg" />
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Plans to create a Care Leaver Covenant were first announced in May 2016 as a way to encourage organisations to offer more support to care leavers in England. It was due to launch in October 2016 but has...
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Published: 5 July 2018
<img alt="ADCS conference: 'No fat left to trim' from children's services, Gallimore warns" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/a83d82cc-dcf1-4333-9818-4fa15c79e0bf/3/StuartGallimoreADCS-320x198.jpg" />
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Speaking at the ADCS annual conference in Manchester, in front of an audience that included Education Secretary Damian Hinds and children's minister Nadhim Zahawi, Gallimore criticised the "intellectually...
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Published: 5 July 2018
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Currently councils can apply through the courts for a school attendance order (SAO) for the child to return to school if they believe the education on offer at home is unsuitable, in terms of educational...
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Published: 5 July 2018
<img alt="Daily roundup 5 July: School improvement, Universal Credit and Welsh childcare" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/9764b484-f79b-4f52-a586-50c0e318a939/1/4a3f8d67fc9ea43dc1ca141a8f4663fdjpg-320x198.jpg" />
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Councils are better at boosting the inspection grades of inadequate schools than academy chains, analysis of official figures suggests. Research by Angel Solutions found that 75 per cent of "inadequate"...
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Published: 5 July 2018
<img alt="Older children suffering neglect 'slipping through the cracks'" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/d0dc6386-380f-409e-99ea-3e16bff8608a/1/gangshutterstock-320x198.jpg" />
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A report based on a series of joint targeted area inspections conducted by Ofsted, which carried out the deep dive alongside inspectors from the Care Quality Commission, HM Probation, and HM Constabulary...
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Published: 5 July 2018
<img alt="Alan Wood to chair £20m social care evidence centre" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/80c5674f-9913-4f55-9839-404fa13fa7a6/1/alanwood-320x198.jpg" />
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Wood, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) in 2014/15, will be instrumental in the creation of the What Works Centre, which aims to improve the use of evidence-based...
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Published: 5 July 2018
<img alt="Early years assessment plans 'fundamentally flawed', study finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/4c4d4678-6f6e-4e10-835d-c0f695f083b1/2/ruthfryreceptionteacherpreprepreceptionclass-320x198.jpg" />
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Their study concludes the plans will produce inaccurate and unfair comparisons across children's primary school life, because a few months' difference in age can produce pronounced developmental differences...
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Published: 4 July 2018
<img alt="Government tells councils to replace LSCBs by September 2019" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/7a118b64-1dde-45c1-b60b-55bc634ca7f0/1/scrcreditphiladams-320x198.jpg" />
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Guidance published today reveals that the 15-month transition period began last Friday (29 June).
Councils and their safeguarding partners will have up to 12 months to agree the new arrangements, and...
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Published: 4 July 2018
<img alt="Daily roundup 4 July: Funding warning, advertising ban, and murder probe" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/2ff8ed27-6d83-4b32-8b56-f56de055bc9e/3/ScreenShot20180704at112256-320x198.png" />
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Local authorities have reached the point where relentless financial cutbacks are putting the wellbeing of vulnerable adults and children at risk, the Conservative leader of the Local Government Association...
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Published: 4 July 2018