Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children has announced a new training package for the Heads of Children’s Services throughout the UK. The Guardian reports that this is to plug the gap of skills as since the creation of the Children’s Services departments in local authorities, which merged Education and (children’s) Social Services. House of [...]

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