Children’s Services: Target Demand Redesign

We help councils to design more effective early intervention and prevention models within children's services, managing demand and building family resilience.

IMPOWER INDEX

Children’s Services Module

Evaluates the outcomes and productivity of local authority Departments of Children’s Services

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What was missing from the LGA’s ‘Making Sense’ report on children’s services

What was missing from the LGA’s ‘Making Sense’ report…

The Local Government Association (LGA) recently published a research report on children’s services. While the report – ‘Making Sense: Understanding…

by Ebony Hughes - June 27, 2018

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Demystifying the right level of funding for vulnerable children

Demystifying the right level of funding for vulnerable…

Another day, another news story depicting the breadth and depth of the challenge facing children’s services departments across the country. …

by Olly Swann - June 14, 2018

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Pinball kids: time to say game over

The Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield OBE, recently published the 2018 Stability Index, an annual measure of the stability…

by Ebony Hughes - June 11, 2018

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Girls, gangs and their abusive relationships

In September, I will be taking a sabbatical from IMPOWER to embark on research in the US under the…

by Samantha Jury-Dada - May 4, 2018

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Children’s placements: switching from lottery to logic

I am pleased that the debate on funding for children’s services is getting more traction at a national level,…

by Alastair Thompson - April 25, 2018

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Accountability in children’s care placements is only part of the equation

Accountability in children’s care placements is only part…

A recent media story (‘Councils not held to account for commissioning social care, claims MP’) reported the debate in Parliament’s…

by Ebony Hughes - March 9, 2018

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Redefining Prevention

They say that “prevention is better than cure”, and indeed we often see prevention as a binary choice: we didn’t…

by Jason Walton - March 6, 2018

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Let’s change the conversation on children in care

As the recent Guardian article illustrates (‘Greedy Financiers profiting from the Pain of Children’), the debate about the market for…

by Alastair Thompson - January 31, 2018

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REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS

Shining a Light (Volume 2)

We are delighted to launch the second volume of our ‘Shining a Light’ essay collection, highlighting some of the key challenges facing children’s services.

by Olly Swann - October 12, 2017

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