Insights • children's services

In mulling over the quandaries facing our clients on regional adoption agencies (RAAs) I was considering how to clarify some…

by Alastair Thompson - March 3, 2017

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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…

by Olly Swann - November 9, 2016

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NCAS Conference – live blog, day one

Like last year, at NCAS Conference IMPOWER will be live blogging, capturing snap shots of the most interesting things heard and seen….

by IMPOWER - November 2, 2016

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Back to work: Returning to consulting and children’s services

Back to work: Returning to consulting and children’s…

This week a date arrived that I had for a long time felt far off on the horizon: My return…

by Ebony Hughes - October 5, 2016

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Do we need a ‘National Child Protection Service’?

Do we need a ‘National Child Protection…

Image credit: @aboutwithneilmp It was standing room only at a packed Localis fringe event to debate whether the UK needs…

by Jenna Collins - October 4, 2016

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How not to tackle a ‘national emergency’

Last week the great and good of public health gathered for the Public Health England (PHE) conference. It was a…

by Thomas Spencer - September 20, 2016

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DfE’s fostering ‘stocktake’

This month Children and Families Minister Edward Timpson committed to a “national stocktake of fostering”. In response to the national…

by Alastair Thompson - August 17, 2016

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Widening the debate on the future of children’s services

In December 2014 Children’s minister Edward Timpson unveiled a plan to tackle poor standards across “failing” children’s services departments. Within…

by Dominic Luscombe - June 27, 2016

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Beyond tokenistic co-production in children’s services

With a background of working in service transformation for children and young people, I have seen the words “co-production” or “engagement” frequently used….

by Emma Ockelford - April 25, 2016

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