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Incident notifications: what social care providers need to tell us

Posted by: Jason Bradbury, Posted on: 29 March 2019 - Categories: children looked after, children's homes, fostering, social care professionals
children lying down in a circle looking happy

Jason Bradbury, Deputy Director for Data and Insight, discusses incident notifications from social care providers regulated by Ofsted.

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The changing picture in the children’s homes sector

Posted by: Jason Bradbury, Posted on: 22 August 2018 - Categories: children looked after, children's services, social care professionals, social work
children lying down in a circle looking happy

Jason Bradbury, Ofsted's Deputy Director, Data and Insight, on children's homes and the picture painted by the latest annual data.

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