The Sport and Recreation Alliance have published a useful and timely report Physical Activity and Health: Working together to get the nation moving which sets out how the sport, recreation and physical activity sector can work alongside health to get more people active, more often.
The DfE has published an independent report into children’s residential, that is provision commissioned mainly by local authorities for children in care outside the children’s home or foster care.A large number of recommendations covering obtaining better value for money and improved care from the commissioning process, relationship to fostering, closeness to home, the size of…
As part of the DfE’s vision for improving adoption, the DfE has published an independent review of the what is known about the strategies and therapies, and their effectiveness, which support adoptive parents and their adopted children. While the review does not find any one intervention better than another, it does point to the need…
Two recent reports shed light on the youth justice system. The Ministry of Justice’s commissioned review of the whole system has produced an interim report, and Lord Laming has reviewed how to improve keeping young children in care out of the criminal justice system. This CSN briefing looks at both reports.
Ofsted has surveyed local authorities and early years providers including schools and independent childcare settings about tackling the issues facing disadvantaged families and their young children. Key findings for LAs include the need to do more to increase take up of the offer of funded early education by disadvantaged two-year-olds (and the number of places…
The Government is embarking on a major overhaul of the regulation of social workers including their regulation, entry standards, and standards of continuing development. This briefing looks at the DfE/DH policy paper on future regulation of social workers and the parliamentary debate.
The health, public health and social care round-up summarises new policy, research and publications that are relevant to elected members and officers interested in health and social care. It is intended to be a digested read and provides links to the source documentation of major reports for further consideration.
The Government's Policy Statement on the future of children's social care, Putting Children First, sets out to achieve a care system staffed and led by the best trained professionals, who are dynamic and free to innovate in the interests of children. Provision will be delivered through a more diverse range of social care organisations with…
In order to assess the effectiveness of Children's Centres, the Government initiated in 2010 a six-year study of their effectiveness. The last report on value for money has just been published along with an overview report on the twelve published reports. This CSN Policy Briefing looks at the reports and their conclusions especially the complex…
The National Data Guardian has produced a report for the government with proposals for new data security standards and an opt-out model for data sharing across the NHS and with social care. The government is consulting on the proposals.
