Supporting evidence-based policymaking
Andrew Carter explains how new guidance will help councils decide what services should be prioritised in the wake of swinging cuts.
Council adopts fingerprint-based drug testing
15/10/2019 Peterborough City Council has brought in fingerprint-based drug testing as part of its family safeguarding social care initiative. |
Spending on youth services cut 73% in decade
08/10/2019 A new analysis from the Labour Party has revealed that public spending on youth services in England has been reduced by £1bn – or 73% – since 2010. |
Young offenders ‘set up to fail’, report warns
08/10/2019 Children and young people released from young offender institutions are getting too little support in the community and are being ‘set up to fail’, a new report shows. |
Children’s voices missing from care records, study warns
03/10/2019 The voices of children and young people are missing from their social care records causing significant distress and upset, research has warned today. |
Safeguarding shake-up
24/09/2019 With local safeguarding children boards being abolished, Neil Merrick finds out what new arrangements councils are setting up in their local areas. |
Kinship carers blast lack of support from children's services
24/09/2019 Local authorities should have a legal responsibility to support people looking after the children of family and friends, campaigners have argued. |
Named person scheme dropped
20/09/2019 A mandatory named person scheme for every child in Scotland – underpinned by law – will not now happen, deputy first minister John Swinney has announced. |
Repairing children’s services is an investment worth making
12/09/2019 Spending more on services to stop the rising costs of taking children into care must be worth the investment, says Heather Jameson. |
Think tank calls for radical reform of children’s services
10/09/2019 A radical new approach to children’s services is needed to avert the growing crisis, a think tank has warned today. |
Quarter of a million children ‘unhappy’, charity says
28/08/2019 Council chiefs have called for more funds for children’s services after a charity found quarter of a million teenagers in the UK are unhappy. |
Government announces over £3m to support children with mental health issues
20/08/2019 Children and young people are to benefit from a £3.3m injection of cash into local community projects, the Government has announced. |
Council considers job cuts to fund children’s services
13/08/2019 Stoke-on-Trent City Council is considering cutting 248 jobs in order to help fund a £5.5m cash boost for children’s services. |
This issue of Local Government News explores how councils can tackle modern slavery and trafficking in their supply chains, finds out more about Cambridge's first cohousing scheme and the launch of a new project to build a shared service pattern library for local government.
This issue also contains a special focus on children's services and how councils are protecting children following local safeguarding children boards being abolished.
