Dealing with a family’s request for a new social worker A practitioner with more than 20 years’ experience reflects on what went wrong when a mother requested a new social worker, how she unpac...
Half of foster carers report children losing free school meal entitlement While free school meal entitlement is being extended, many fostered children are losing out from the removal of transitional protections ...
Union calls for halt to graded Ofsted inspections over health concerns England’s biggest school leaders’ union has called for a halt to graded Ofsted inspections, saying they could pose a “r...
Campaigners call for temporary halt to school exclusions Campaigners have called for a temporary halt to school exclusions in England after schools issued 913,000 suspensions and 9,900 permanent...
Why language matters: talking about ‘non-recent’ instead of ‘historic’ abuse When we think of something as historic or historical, we think of it as being consigned to the past, as not being a present concern. In u...
DfE selects councils to help others improve children’s social care and deliver on reforms Fourteen councils and trust that runs three services selected as children’s social care improvement teams (CITs), with a remit to p...
