Powers to protect children and tackle illegal schools

Powers to protect children and tackle illegal schools

The Local Government Association is calling on the government to give councils the power to enter homes and other premises to see children and check the suitability of education being delivered; and to compel parents to register home educated children.

Source: Local Government Association  Date: 16 September 2016

Birmingham children’s services

Birmingham children’s services

Community Care reports on proposals to hand ownership of Birmingham’s children’s services to social workers as part of an employee owned mutual, run as a ‘worker’s co-operative’. The other model being proposed to elected representatives would see the council own the trust.

SourceCommunity Care  Date: September 16 2016

Early intervention support

An article in Guardian Social Care makes the case for enacting in law protection for early intervention projects and additional children’s services to support parents in breaking the cycle of having successive babies taken into care.

Source: Guardian  Date: 21 September