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Gill Steward will join Cumbria CC as chief executive in August once the move is approved by full council. Ms Steward is the current chair of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies thinktank. She was chief executive for Bexley LBC from 2016 to 2018 and interim chief executive of West Sussex CC between 2014 and 2016.
Gillian Beasley, chief executive of Cambridgeshire CC and Peterborough City Council, is retiring. Ms Beasley has been at the helm of Peterborough for 19 years and, in addition, was six years ago appointed to run Cambridgeshire in a unique county council/unitary arrangement. In 2008 she was awarded an OBE for her work in local government.
Vulnerable children ‘falling through net’ as services restricted to statutory minimum
Vulnerable groups are suffering a “significant and dangerous loss of visibility” because their needs do not meet the increasingly tight criteria of councils’ statutory functions, a parliamentary heard has heard.
The House of Lords public services committee was yesterday told how referrals to a council safeguarding board about girls who had been sexually exploited were not picked up because the council could no longer afford to commission those services.
The committee’s chair Baroness Hilary Armstrong, who has been working with the organisation that made the referrals, said the unnamed council – “which is a good local authority” – does not commission in this area “because they can t afford to, because they re busy using their statutory money on all their things where they have no option but to be involved”.
Plymouth-born Operation Encompass rolled out in all 43 police forces across the country
Operation Encompass - created by a former Plymouth police officer and a Torpoint headteacher a decade ago - has now been embedded in all 43 police forces in England and Wales
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A scheme launched in seven Plymouth schools ten years ago by a Torpoint headteacher and a Devonport police sergeant which helps safeguard and support children suffering from domestic violence is now embedded in all 43 police forces across the country.
The landmark was reached on April 12 this year when Bedfordshire Police launched Operation Encompass in their Luton area. The last few months has seen Bedfordshire, along with Dorset and Avon and Somerset forces, sign up to the scheme which over the last decade has become an award-winning nationwide project praised by Government ministers, child psychologists, Chief Constables, education bosses and recognised as far af
ADCS presidency to be focused on recovery Derren Hayes Tuesday, April 27, 2021
New ADCS president for 2021/22 Charlotte Ramsden sets out her key priorities and how she will apply a collaborative style of leadership.
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