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03/02/2012 Govt announces funding for Youth United
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has announced £10 million funding for thousands of new volunteer leaders for youth groups like the Scouts, Guiding and Police Cadets. Mr Pickles has confirmed that the money will be handed to Youth United, a coalition of the major youth volunteering organisations. It will, he said, help the various organisations to recruit 2,700 new adult volunteers over th...
03/02/2012 Ofsted: Adoption inspections have been too lenient
Children's services regulator Ofsted has conceded that inspections of adoption services have been too lenient in the past. Indeed, John Goldup, the deputy chief inspector of Ofsted, acknowledged that adoption service inspections have not always centred on the right judgements. "As far as inspection is concerned, I'm not sure we have been looking at the right things, at the things that make t...