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John Pearce comments on Wave 5 of the DfE’s longitudinal study of social workers...
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Poor mental health and wellbeing can have a lasting impact on children and young people’s life chances...
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Chris Munday, Chair of the ADCS Resources & Strategy Policy Committee said:
In General Funding
At the end of this month, I will be moving from my familiar surroundings of the West Midlands to the...
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ADCS comment on the Illegal Migration Bill
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ADCS response to Improving support for children missing education - call for evidence...
In Education & Schools
I recently listened to a podcast (Children locked away: Britain’s modern Bedlam) about some of our...
In General Care
I’m writing this blog just a few days after returning from the ADCS Annual Conference in...
In Leadership
ADCS annual conference 2023 round-up
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ADCS President’s speech to ADCS Annual Conference
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John Pearce’s speech to the 2023 Annual conference.
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Chris Munday comments on LGA research
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There has been a lot of chatter in our ADCS groups about retirement in the last few months and I...
In Leadership
As we come to the end of another academic year, I thought it was timely to focus on one of my...
In Education
The Secure Welfare Coordination Unit (SWCU) is a small unit grant funded by the Department for...
In Residential Care
ADCS position paper on pre-requisites for success of RCCs
In General Care
The varying number of national and regional initiatives, pathfinders and pilots emerging out of the...
In Care
Commenting on new research by Foundations on Family Group Conferencing, Helen Lincoln, Chair of the...
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I write this travelling home from London, having spent the day at the National Panel Reimagining...
In General
Long before I became a Director of Children’s Services, in the annals of history, I studied for a...