This report looks at the action being taken by local authority children’s services to address performance issues on adoption and permanence, including increasing the number......
05 September, 2013This think piece,written by VSC associate Anna Wright, focuses on the way in which community development can be used to build resilience in communities so......
02 October, 2013The Children and Families Bill, introduced in the House of Commons on 4 February, is a major piece of legislation (“huge and important”, as one......
16 May, 2013This report deals with the very particular challenges that are faced by senior and middle leaders in local authorities that have been judged ‘inadequate’ by......
23 May, 2013This think piece is the product of ‘A Conversation about Improvement’, one of a series of applied leadership seminars provided by the Virtual Staff College......
03 June, 2014Leadership Academy 2: Safeguarding and Keeping Children Safe in Turbulent Times, 11th February 2016 This second thematic seminar of the 2016 programme explored the changing......
31 August, 2016A think piece, written by VSC associate Anna Wright, on the subject of child poverty, the think piece considers such questions as: What is child poverty,......
02 October, 2013The 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report places a special emphasis on human trafficking in the global marketplace. It highlights the hidden risks that workers may......
19 March, 2015“The Government will shortly be publishing radically revised statutory guidance for consultation… A new inspection framework also comes into operation in May. These fundamental changes......
23 May, 2013A report by the Department for Communities and Local Government around the Troubled Families Initiative Working with Troubled families...
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