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Care review launches with focus on ensuring love, stability and safety for children in families and in care

DfE failure to ban unregulated provision for under-18s will leave teenagers at risk, warn sector heads

Care review’s rejection of over 900 applicants for experts by experience group sparks ‘pain and anger’

Council no longer at risk of losing children’s services after turnaround since ‘inadequate’ Ofsted verdict

Children, Coronavirus, Workforce
Number of councils reporting high social worker absences due to Covid rises sharply

Care review offers chance for ‘completely new offer for children and families’, says chief social worker

Council failed to protect siblings who suffered ‘repeated unprovoked assaults’ by brother for three years

Minister gives council a year to show it can keep control of children’s services following improvements
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