Variation in children’s social care: let’s learn from the best councils
Our response to the NAO's report exploring pressures on children’s social care
January 23, 2019
Olly Swann
Central government failure for SEND
Nobody would argue against the additional £250 million granted to councils this week to relieve budget pressures in High Needs funding….
December 19, 2018
Shining A Light volume 3: Are we valuing care?
Launching our children's services essay collection
November 7, 2018
Debating public services at Labour Party Conference
I spent yesterday at the Labour Party conference, to take part in an important panel discussion on local government. It…
September 25, 2018
Demystifying the right level of funding for vulnerable children
Another day, another news story depicting the breadth and depth of the challenge facing children’s services departments across the country. …
June 14, 2018
Valuing children’s care
Four out of ten children in care today might not be there if the system was better organised. That’s one…
January 26, 2018
Consulting Excellence: IMPOWER’s commitment
As a member of the Management Consultancies Association (MCA), early this year IMPOWER formally committed to Consulting Excellence – a…
December 23, 2016
Do alternative models work for child services?
This article was originally posted in The MJ. In recent months local government has been calling on Theresa May and…
November 9, 2016
Regional Adoption Agencies: What we’ve learnt so far
Only recently was the establishment of Regional Adoption Agencies formally ‘announced‘ (the latest in a line of numerous press releases and papers). For those in…
April 12, 2016
Union… there’s a clue in the name
So there we have it. The dust has settled on a General Election result few would have predicted. Regardless of…
May 13, 2015
Six Thoughts From NCAS Conference 2014
The annual ‘pilgrimage’ that all social care professionals generally make is the NCAS conference. In my opinion, it is one…
November 7, 2014
