[PDF] Top 20 Children in care : report by the Comptroller and Auditor General

... of children in care and the demand for ...of children, as they will have unpredictable reactions to a new ...for care may often be urgent or immediate, precluding the level of needs assessment ... See full document

... for children at risk of or subject to child sexual exploitation were undertaken through spot ...place children in their own residential or foster care because they have already committed costs and so ... See full document

... help care leavers stay in foster homes longer, although it is too early to assess its ...where children in care are given longer to become independent like their peers, this improves their ...offers ... See full document

... on care leavers and makes data and research on good practice publicly ...that care leavers get comprehensive personal support to help them achieve their potential as they make their transition to ...on ... See full document

... 28. The Department told me that their approach to addressing the longstanding legacy arrears includes a number of wider positive impacts, which support the approach being taken. These include maintaining parity with GB ... See full document

... Having enough high-quality teachers in the right places is crucial to the success of the school system and to securing value for money for the £21 billion that schools spend on their teaching workforce. Performance ... See full document

... • Construction, a sector that has traditionally struggled with skills shortages, had a below-average achievement rate of 70% in 2014/15, down from 72% in 2011/12. 3.19 Apprentices can fail to achieve for reasons outside ... See full document

... The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, is an Officer of the House of ...to report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which departments and other bodies ... See full document

... supporting children and young people with SEND as effectively as they should ...the Care Quality Commission (the CQC) to inspect the effectiveness of support for pupils with SEND provided by education, ... See full document

... of children starting primary school is closely linked to the number of children born five years ...fewer children starting school each ...having children in their twenties in the 1990s having ... See full document

... health care and antenatal care), NHS England undertook an independent review of the specific ...antenatal care was found to be excellent. The review of psychiatric care found that it could and ... See full document

... accommodation that different local authorities use, reflecting their local housing markets. There were 77,240 households in temporary accommodation in March 2017, an increase of 60% since March 2011. These households ... See full document

... 1.6 Durand plans to educate pupils in years 9 to 11 in new boarding facilities outside South London. It has purchased a site for this, a vacant boarding school, in West Sussex, which it plans to develop and expand. The ... See full document

... 3 The periodic spending reviews managed by HM Treasury, which determine high-level allocations of funding to departments, have for some years formed a consistent feature of government’s approach, though with gradual ... See full document

... Health Care Plan 2007-2016 (SA’s Health Care Plan) in response to the 2004 Generational Health ...Health Care Plan addresses the key factors impacting the State’s health system, including South ... See full document

... 10 In 2014-15, authorities incurred £3.5 billion of capital spending on education. Arrangements for local authority capital spending on education have been radically restructured since 2010-11. The Department for ... See full document

... Our report on Customer service performance recognised the resources HMRC has committed and the progress it has made to recover customer service standards from a very low ... See full document

... 5.2 When reviewing departmental submissions, HM Treasury’s General Expenditure Policy team drew on the expertise of other teams internally, including on capital (paragraphs 2.9 and 4.5 to 4.7). The central team ... See full document

... Scotland Performs measures and reports on the Scottish Government’s progress on economic growth. Scotland Performs, established in 2007 and updated in 2011, provides accountability based on national priorities. The ... See full document

... 17 DfE is managing individual risks associated with delivery of components of the current change programme in an appropriate way. The Apprenticeships Directorate has embarked on a wide range of initiatives in support of ... See full document