Keeping children safe from violence outside the home
Children’s social care in England is undergoing once-in-a-generation reform.
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‘Integrated services support child development’ – LGA
New LGA-commissioned research has found that integrated local services are crucial to meeting the national ambition for 75 per cent of five-year-olds to reach a good level of development (GLD) by 2028.
Changes are better late than never
The Chancellor has finally decided to abolish the two-child benefit cap.
A journey to outstanding
In 2017, Ofsted judged Walsall’s children’s services as ‘requires improvement’.
Summer childcare costs up 4%
Summer holiday clubs to cover Britain’s six-week school break now cost parents an average of £1,076 per child, according to new figures from the children’s charity Coram.
Improving early years education
When I first became a cabinet member, I attended the LGA’s enhanced children’s services training at Warwick and learned just how important the early years are.
Warning on free childcare places
A quarter of councils are ‘not very confident’ that they will have enough spaces for this September’s rollout of free childcare, according to an LGA report.
215,000 children missing out on free school meals
Nearly a quarter of a million children are missing out on free school meals worth nearly £500 per child because of the lack of an automated sign-up system, according to the LGA.
Ensuring every child has a loving family
Over the past five decades, Coram has been dedicated to the task of putting children first and ensuring, where they need it, that they can grow up in safe, loving, adoptive families.
Listening to children in care
For almost a decade, our Bright Spots programme, in partnership with The Rees Centre at the University of Oxford, has worked with children and young people in care to explore what they feel makes life good.