Child safeguarding

Children

Can you spot the signs of child sexual exploitation?

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Children, Stand Up For Social Work, Workforce

Book about realities of child protection work wins award

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Children

Social workers should get specialist training after 19 children killed during contact visits

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Children, Child safeguarding

Rotherham children’s services to remain in commissioner control

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Children

Joint inspections of child protection practice to begin this year

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Children

Record number of care applications in December, figures show

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Children, Workforce

Social workers often ‘poorly trained and not ready for frontline practice’, says DfE

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Children, Child safeguarding

Rotherham council receives £5 million boost to improve services and recruit social workers

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Children

Family group conferences should be made statutory, says former education secretary

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Council that failed to risk assess convicted sex offender heavily criticised by judge

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Children

Future of children’s services a ‘step into the unknown’, MPs told

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Children

‘Incident-led social work’ factor in authority’s ‘inadequate’ rating, Ofsted finds

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Children

More money for adoption support as government sets out children’s services plans

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Children, Workforce

Parents who record child protection meetings: what social workers need to know

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Workforce, Children

What does David Cameron’s improvement agenda mean for children’s social care?

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Children, Workforce

Doncaster failing homeless young people, says Ombudsman

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