Torbay takes too long to address weaknesses
Torbay children's services is taking too long to address critical weaknesses, Ofsted has warned.
Previous monitoring visits have revealed that the quality of help and protection for vulnerable children continues to be very concerning at Torbay. The local authority has made some progress to implement the necessary improvements, but the pace of change for children [...]
£19m package of measures for care leavers
The government has announced new cross-government support available to young care leavers backed with £19 million of investment into programmes that directly benefit those leaving care.
The investment is to support care leavers accessing better housing, healthcare and employment opportunities. The new funding includes £10 million to create stable homes for care leavers as they [...]
Pace of change at Dorset improves
Changes in the senior leadership team at Dorset and local government re-organisation have significantly impacted on the pace of improvement in children’s services, Ofsted has said.
Many areas of improvement identified in the single inspection in 2016 had not improved at the point of the JTAI in 2018. But children are now benefiting from much [...]
Special report: Reparation for victims of child sexual abuse
Victims of child sexual abuse find the legal processes for seeking reparations as hostile, baffling, frustrating and futile, according to a report.
The accountability and reparations investigation by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) heard victims describe the variety of bafflement and distress they endured in attempting to attain their remedies at law.
Half of victims of abuse first suffered aged 8
Almost half of victims of child sexual abuse who have come forward to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse were under eight years old when their abuse began, it has been reported.
Almost 80 per cent of victims and survivors of child sexual abuse who have come forward to the Inquiry's Truth [...]
Duty on councils to provide safe accommodation for victims of domestic abuse
Local authorities will have a new legal duty on them from next year to provide safe accommodation to survivors of domestic abuse, the government has confirmed.
Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed that survivors of domestic abuse will be provided with essential, life-saving support in safe accommodation thanks to new legal requirement upon every council [...]
