Tag Archives | children’s social care funding

John Pearce, ADCS president, 2023-24

Children, Social work leaders

‘You can’t reform a children’s social care system based on quicksand’

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE provides 15% of funding urged by care review in response

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Social care funding rise ‘should deliver tangible service improvements’, says government

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Children, Social work leaders

‘No real recognition’ of children’s social care pressures in Hunt statement, warn leaders

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Gillian Keegan

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care gets fifth cabinet minister of 2022 while facing significant policy shake-up

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

‘There is no fat left to trim’: social care leaders warn Jeremy Hunt against further rounds of cuts

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Councils boost social care budgets by £700m but say they are ‘plugging gaps in an underfunded system’

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children's social worker

Children, Social work leaders

More than 60,000 children a year re-referred to social care after missing out on early help, research finds

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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Lower caseloads key to improving child protection following Arthur case, say social workers

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Rishi Sunak

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Funding boost for councils not enough to address ‘disastrous’ state of social care, warn sector bodies

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Blocks spelling out the word 'funding'

Children, Social work leaders

English councils need £2.7bn more for children’s social care by 2025, LGA warns government

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