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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Exceptional’ direct work helps council improve to ‘outstanding’ despite staffing challenges

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Inadequate’ councils bore brunt of sharp rise in social workers quitting posts last year, analysis shows

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Children, Social work leaders

Inspectors downgrade council after finding ‘significant variation’ in quality of social work

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Children, Social work leaders

Council’s efforts to prevent children entering care help consolidate ‘good’ Ofsted grading

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Children, Workforce

Improvements at ‘inadequate’ council mean no children left at risk of harm as full reinspection looms

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Council’s ‘unacceptable’ caseloads damaging quality of social work with families, Ofsted warns

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social work recruitment difficulties undermining practice at struggling council

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE intervenes in council following ‘inadequate’ children’s services verdict

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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

Higher early help spend and less poverty strongly linked to positive Ofsted ratings, research finds

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Insufficient social workers to meet need’ in town where Arthur Labinjo-Hughes died, probe finds

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Acute’ social work staffing issues and ‘relentless’ workloads slow progress at new unitary authority

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Children, Social work leaders

Ofsted censures children’s services leaders for placements ‘against young people’s best interests’

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social workers felt uninvolved in ‘inadequate’ council’s attempts to improve, says commissioner

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Children, Social work leaders

Needs of children ‘secondary’ to parents’ in some cases, Ofsted finds during council visit

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