Tag Archives | children’s trusts

Word blocks spelling out 'outsourcing' being changed to 'insourcing'

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s services return to council control as trust is wound up

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE seeking ‘more cost-effective’ alternative to children’s trusts for struggling services

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Community Care, Workforce Insights

‘I spent the first three months listening’: how supportive leadership can transform children’s services

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Word blocks spelling out 'outsourcing' being changed to 'insourcing'

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s trust to be disbanded as council takes services back in-house

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Children, Social work leaders

Council facing removal of services improving care leaver provision, finds Ofsted

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Children, Social work leaders

Structural change in children’s services ‘no panacea’ for councils’ problems, research finds

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Children, Social work leaders

Borough’s ‘inadequate’ decade ends on back of strong children’s trust leadership

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Children, Social work leaders

Council to keep children’s services for now as commissioner rules trust transfer risks ‘further deterioration’

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Children, Social work leaders

Council takes children’s services back from country’s first trust

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Children, Social work leaders

Plans to remove council’s children’s services scrapped after positive report

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Children, Social work leaders

Government needs ‘compelling reasons’ not to remove children’s services from council

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Children, Social work leaders

Council cedes control of children’s services

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Children, Social work leaders

Government ends interventions at improved councils

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Image of Doncaster, home of England's first children's services trust (credit: Harleyamber / Wikimedia Commons)

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s trusts: lessons from outsourcing ‘failing’ council services

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Workforce, Children

Are independent children’s trusts really the answer to struggling services?

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