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562 years to close the gap…
As chair of the ADCS Educational Achievement Committee I was asked last week to sign off our press statement on the recently published Education...
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Measuring our success
As I write this, the political merry go round is in full swing and the former Children’s Minister, Nadhim Zahawhi, has taken up a new role as...
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The knock on the door no parent...
In East Sussex, this year’s Young People’s Big Vote placed ‘a fear of knife crime’ as their number one concern. Despite the thankfully...
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Making our voices heard
The North East is a unique and wonderful place to live and work with so many positives ranging from the fantastic environment to the cost of...
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Grow your own
As I sit down to write this blog the ADCS Annual Conference 2019 has just finished. If you didn’t get a chance to catch Rachel Dickinson’s...
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Our plea to the next Prime Minister
At the end of July, we will know who the next Prime Minister is, and we should have a good idea about what some of their priorities will be for...
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Local authority children’s...
Local authority children’s services does something good for local family... Seems like an unlikely news story doesn’t it? It's hard to think...
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Far less than they deserve
On 22 May I joined many other people in watching a Panorama programme exposing the cruel and callous treatment of staff towards people with...
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From and to our friends in the...
It’s nearly a year since I started in Blackburn with Darwen as the Director of Children’s Services and Education. I had the opportunity of...
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The precarious state of local...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ (IFS) recent analysis of local government funding highlighted the extent of government cuts to date. It found...
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