Health visitors in the county have already taken 32 days of industrial action and are balloting for further strikes.
They are concerned they have lost more than £2,000 a year since they were transferred...
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White working class areas are being particularly ignored by the initiative, which was launched by the coalition government in 2011 to offer more state-funded school places, says the Education Policy Institute...
The inspectorate explored reasons behind high-needs pupils leaving mainstream schools in seven local authority areas in the East Midlands, published in Exploring Moving to Home Education in Secondary Schools....
Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster councils had formed a tri-borough arrangement involving joint provision of children's services, adult social care and public health in 2011....
The Department for Education had previously committed to invest until July 2020, and yesterday said the fund would be guaranteed until March 2021.
The news has led to calls for a long-term commitment,...
The Challenge has brought the legal action after its contract to deliver the government-backed programme for 16- and 17-year olds in London, the South East and the West Midlands was not renewed earlier...
It follows the latest publication of HM Inspectorate of Probation's annual report of youth offending services which revealed a "significant variation" in the way young people were treated by police and...
When someone turns 18 they legally become an adult. Most young people will manage this move to adulthood well, receiving support from their family, friends and communities. However, this transition is a process, not an event, and not all young people have support readily available.
Some 83 per cent of schools will be worse off in 2020/21 than they were in 2015, with schools, particularly in deprived areas, "struggling to paper over the cracks" caused by wider austerity measures,...
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