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Twenty three projects supporting young people with mental health problems are to benefit from £3.3 million of funding, the government has announced. Mental health support including counselling, mentoring and arts…
Practitioners have broadly welcomed a new project devolving budgets to social workers, according to the What Works for Children’s Social Care centre. Three pilots running in Darlington, Hillingdon and Wigan…
There were 92,000 children living in sofa-surfing families in 2016-17, according to a report by the children’s commissioner for England. Official statistics show 124,000 children in England living in temporary…
Social workers in a local authority with a ‘requires improvement’ Ofsted rating are more likely to experience stress, high workloads and fulfill too many roles, a study has found. The…
Child criminal exploitation is not comprehensively understood by practitioners in all agencies across the safeguarding partnership in Northumberland, a joint targeted area inspection has found. Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission,…
Leaders at Warrington ensure that children and their families receive good quality services that help to protect children and improve their day-to-day experiences of family life, Ofsted has said. The…
Services for children in Lewisham continue to require improvement overall, according to Ofsted. The inspection of children’s services at Lewisham found services for children in care have deteriorated since the…
The determined and well-focused leadership of the director of children’s services at Swindon has delivered significant improvement in children’s services, Ofsted has said. The DCS and his leadership team have…
There has been a deterioration in the quality of services for children in need of help and protection at York since the last inspection of children’s services in 2016, Ofsted…
Placing social workers in schools may have positive effects on inter-agency working between social workers and school staff, and on building relationships with children, young people and families, a report…
