About Luke Stevenson

Luke Stevenson is Community Care’s children’s social care journalist

Author Archive | Luke Stevenson

Children

Integrated inspections for children’s services ‘lack credibility’, warns directors

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Children

£300m cost of failed returns for children in care revealed by NSPCC

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Workforce

A simple guide to protecting your social media privacy on Facebook

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Children, Child safeguarding

Government inspection of Rotherham Council launched following abuse scandal cover up

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Workforce

Coventry Council applauded for “brave” Do It For Daniel campaign

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Workforce

HCPC sanctions social worker over Facebook posts

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Children

English councils placing care leavers in ‘squalid’ bed and breakfasts

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Children

One in three children split from siblings in foster care, finds Action for Children

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Children

One in five child deaths in England are preventable, study finds

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Children

Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf to lead inquiry into historical child abuse

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Children, Child safeguarding

David Cameron ‘misses the point’ by not giving Rotherham a standalone inquiry

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Children

Manchester children’s services ‘inadequate’, Ofsted finds

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Children, Child safeguarding

Social care chiefs should face sack after Rotherham abuse, warns prime minister

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Children

Children with disabilities have more control over their care following SEN reforms

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Children, Mental Health

Better ‘ordinary care’ will improve mental health of looked-after children, finds NSPCC

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Children

70% of family courts not meeting 26-week target for care cases

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