by Dominic Luscombe | Mar 18, 2024 | Children's social care, Local government transformation
On Thursday 7 March I joined Bevan Brittan for a shared learning event focused on the government’s children’s social care reform strategy. In support of this myself and my colleague Kate Dexter (Assistant Director, Family Help and High Needs at Norfolk County Council)...
by Alex Fox | Mar 7, 2024 | Adult social care, Children's social care, Education and inclusion, Local government transformation
We often create services intended for everyone, but then find that they don’t work for everyone. They may exclude or poorly serve those with specific needs or barriers to accessing them. So we develop specialist services, for example, to support people with learning...
by Dominic Luscombe | Mar 6, 2024 | Children's social care, Local government transformation
50 children’s services leaders discussed the ways in which their organisations are using insight on children’s needs to transform practice and commissioning. IMPOWER and the County Councils Network (CCN) recently welcomed more than 50 children’s services leaders...
by Dominic Luscombe | Dec 19, 2023 | Children's social care, Local government transformation
For the first time, this data provides an in-depth picture and breakdown of the needs of England’s care population, the connection with cost, and the impact of care on children and young people over time. On Friday DfE published an update on its Children’s...
by Dominic Luscombe | Dec 8, 2023 | Being IMPOWER, Children's social care, Education and inclusion
Find out who I’ve nominated as my hero this year… Kate is an incredible public sector leader who has worked tirelessly to improve outcomes for children and young people in Norfolk and to achieve the recent ‘Good’ Ofsted rating. As part of this, she has...
by IMPOWER | Dec 7, 2023 | Children's social care, Local government transformation
Using data to improve children and young people’s lives
