Missed opportunities to protect missing children
Missed opportunities to protect missing children: Councils are missing opportunities to safeguard children when they go missing from care or home, research by The Children's Society has shown.
Local authorities are only carrying out return home interviews on average, in just 50 per cent of cases where children go missing from home or care, the research [...]
Children's services reach 'breaking point'
Growing evidence of the crisis facing the funding of children's services emerged this week as a committee of MPs stated that children's services are at 'breaking point'.
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has said that increased demand alongside financial pressures are pushing children's services into crisis.
Indeed, Children First recently reported on the pressures [...]
Fall in Director of Childrens Services new appointments
There were just 17 new appointments of director of childrens services in 2018-2019, a report by the Association of Directors of Childrens Services has found.
The 17 new DCS appointments was the second lowest number within a reporting year since ADCS was established in 2007. The fewest number of new DCS appointments was two years [...]
Ofsted Reports - April 2019
A summary of the Ofsted inspection reports of children's services published during April.
Barking and Dagenham requires improvement
Services for children in Barking and Dagenham require improvement, as was the case at the last inspection in 2014, Ofsted has said.
However, the recently appointed director of children’s services, together with her senior team, has appropriately prioritised services for [...]
Special Report: Protect vulnerable children online
Clare Jerrom looks at what the government proposes in its White Paper 'Online Harms' to protect vulnerable children.
Measures to tackle online abuse such as inciting violence, encouraging suicide, cyber bullying, terrorism, child sexual exploitation and abuse content and children accessing inappropriate material have been launched by the government.
INTERNET WATCH FOUNDATION detects record number of child abuse imagery
Improved technology at the Internet Watch Foundation has resulted in record numbers of child abuse imagery being detected, the organisation warns in its annual report.
'Once Upon a Year' includes the experiences of Olivia a child who was repeatedly raped and sexually tortured from the age of three until she was rescued from her abuser when [...]
