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Professor Eileen Munro: urgent cultural change in the child protection system now underway.
Press notice 22 May 2012
The care system is facing major challenges as the number of looked after children rises and retiring foster carers are not replaced fast enough, Children’s Minister Tim Loughton will warn tonight.
Press notice 22 May 2012
Announcement about new support to help families, including parenting classes and relationship support.
Press notice 18 May 2012
Education Secretary Michael Gove has today submitted evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) – the independent body which makes recommendations on teachers’ pay reforms.
Press notice 16 May 2012
New advice to schools will make clear that they will no longer be able to use pupils’ biometric data without parental consent. The advice, launched today for consultation, comes into effect from September 2013.
Press notice 15 May 2012
The Government's Employer Ownership pilot received 269 bids for a share of a £250m fund allocated to routing public investment directly to employers for investment in skills and training required to grow their businesses.
Press notice 15 May 2012
Parents will have a new right to buy in specialist special educational needs (SEN) and disabled care for children from 2014, the biggest change to SEN for 30 years.
Press notice 15 May 2012
Hundreds of children are forced to wait an average of 20 months from entering care to moving in with their adoptive parents – six months slower than the timetable set out in national guidance, according to official figures published today.
Press notice 11 May 2012
The Government has today laid the draft Legislative Reform (Annual Review of Local Authorities) Order before Parliament. This will remove the requirement on Ofsted to conduct annual assessments of local authority children’s services.
Press notice 10 May 2012
The Government has today set out new measures protect children from the creeping tide of commercialisation and sexualisation in society.
Press notice 09 May 2012