by Chris Rogers | 7 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The charity Impetus-PEF has proposed that the pupil premium should be allocated to schools on a payment-by-results basis. It says that schools should only receive payments if they can demonstrate improvements in exam results and that pupils go on to get a job,...
by Chris Rogers | 2 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The Government have launched new online maps to help match some of the 6,000 children in need of a home. Children and Families Minister Edward Timpson said there had been “promising progress” to improve adoption rates, but significantly more needed to be...
by Chris Rogers | 10 Sep 2013 | Education & Children's Services
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) says careers advice for young people in England must be radically improved, arguing that employers believe there are “serious inadequacies” in how young people are advised about work, says the...
by Chris Rogers | 9 Sep 2013 | Education & Children's Services, Third Sector
It has been claimed by a charity that existing myths about foster care are likely to result in a crisis in the service in the UK. It was found by a survey for Action for Children that some 10% of adults did not know that fostering meant providing temporary care. Many...
