Source: ADCS Response to HCLG Committee report on children’s services... Originally published: 1st May 2019 Rachel Dickinson, ADCS President: “The Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee, like countless others, has concluded that current funding for children’s services is insufficient ... Read full piece at source: Response to HCLG Committee report on children’s services... Download … Continue reading ADCS Responds to HCLG Committee report on children’s services …
ADCS has published a new position paper 'Building a workforce that works for all children'. To achieve a country that works for all children, we must have a strong and fully resourced workforce: The government continues to invest in new routes into social work and to progress a programme of social work reform. While efforts … Continue reading Building a workforce that works for all children | ADCS
Source: Dartington Service Design Lab Published: February 2019 Matching Children’s Needs and Services: A Case of Three Circles Are services meeting the needs of children? Dartington's new report: Matching Children’s Needs and Services: A Case of Three Circles draws on a decade of data from 38,000 children and families to answer two fundamental questions: How much … Continue reading Latest research released by Dartington Design Lab – Are services meeting the needs of children? #Dartington3Circles
#ADCS President comments on new analysis by national children's charities on funding for children's services: “While some local authorities have benefitted from small, time limited pots of ring fenced funding this is neither a sustainable nor an equitable way forward. It does nothing to meet the needs of the system as a whole. Government must … Continue reading ‘Correct me if I’m wrong but this doesn’t sound like a country that works for all children.’ – @stuartdcs
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee are examining funding for local authorities' children's services. They want to hear from professionals such as IROs and social workers who work for or with children's services. Scope of the inquiry The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has launched a new inquiry into funding of local authorities’ children’s … Continue reading Funding of local authorities’ children’s services inquiry
Children England charity response to the NAO report "Pressures on Children's Social Care" by Chloe Darlington, Children England, 23rd January 2019: We welcome the confirmation from the National Audit Office that, in the face of huge financial pressures, local authorities have been forced to close non-statutory services in order to protect statutory services. We are also … Continue reading Obsession with local variations is a distraction | Children England
Cuts by local authority funding are already impacting on children’s services, Ofsted has said. Ofsted’s national director for social care, Yvette Stanley, told Community Care that while most local areas are managing to make savings without compromising frontline services, “we are seeing resources reduced in terms of the whole continuum of early help and prevention … Continue reading Ofsted warns against ‘false economy’ of cuts to preventive services loading pressures onto social care | Community Care
How will the £84m funding announcement to expand Leeds, Hertfordshire and North Yorkshire's innovation projects make a difference to the sector as a whole? Read more at source: Zahawi announces plans to extend DfE innovation projects to more councils | Children & Young People Now
A council rated as "outstanding" by Ofsted is planning to make cuts totaling £3.7m to its children's services but has warned the move is likely to mean more children are taken into care. East Sussex County Council has delivered the warning as the council considers council-wide funding reductions, including cuts to programmes aimed at avoiding … Continue reading ‘Outstanding’ council issues blunt warning over impact of proposed cuts | Children & Young People Now
ADCS President Stuart Gallimore writes about the many pressures LAs face ahead of Safeguarding Pressures Phase 6 research due to be published next month. 'We simply can’t go on as we are, the findings from this research must be heard and acted upon before it’s too late'. Read at source: Evidencing safeguarding pressures
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