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November can be an odd month. We are not yet at the end of the year but are planning for it. I don’t know about you, but I am being...

From our Commissioning Network Sponsor: The heading above maybe a little misleading. It is true that I am the DCS sponsor for our...

From Herefordshire’s DCS: Hello, I’m Darryl and I’m the DCS for Herefordshire Council. Where the past couple of Regional Updates have...

From our Safe Centre Board Chair: Over recent months you will have read about some of the changes that are happening across the DCS...

As August arrives, holiday season and allegedly some warmer weather, our colleagues at Ofsted tend not to be focused on inspections...

From Walsall’s DCS: Last month, in her introduction, Jo wrote about the need to preserve “regional memory” due to people moving on from...

At the end of this month, I will be moving from my familiar surroundings of the West Midlands to the North West where I am taking on my...

From our Co-vice Chair: Having been DCS in Telford & Wrekin for a little over three years, it recently dawned on me that others have...

From Stoke-on Trent City Council’s Director of Children and Families: They say time flies when you are having fun, and so it is that...