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Children should have 'opportunities for unsupervised play', MPS say. Picture: Wavebreak3/Adobe Stock
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MPs to investigate urban planning's role in boosting children’s wellbeing

Children's Services
'Insight days' giving young people the opportunity to shadow staff is among a series of calls to employers. Picture: Adobe Stock
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Call for employers to involve disadvantaged young people in recruitment

Education
More nurseries are expected to turn children with SEND away next week. Picture: Adobe Stock
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Early years settings 'turning away one in five parents of children with SEND'

Early Years
Children as young as 10 report being impacted by the cost of living. Picture: Adobe Stock
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Children as young as 10 have low wellbeing over living costs, charity warns

Social Care
Plymouth Council has been ordered to improve services for children with SEND. Picture: Mickblakey/Adobe Stock
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DfE issues council with improvement notice amid SEND concerns

Education
McAllister: 'Cambridgeshire youth justice service is performing well'. Picture: Sue McAllister
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Inspectors praise ‘highly regarded’ youth justice team

Youth Justice
Foster carers and staff should be properly rewarded for the intense and difficult work they do, say experts. Picture: Adobe Stock
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Trauma experts call for end to profit making in foster care

Social Care
An action plan in place that will be discussed by the council’s Cabinet in December. Picture posed by models: Adobe Stock
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Ombudsman criticises council for respite care failures

Social Care
Councils warn that 'an acute rise in the costs of placing children in care mean in-year spending on children’s services is spiralling out of control'. Picture: Adobe Stock
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Children’s services spending ‘spiralling out of control’, councils warn

Social Care
The initiative is aimed at supporting young people who are unlikely to report crimes against them. Picture: C Fizkes/Adobe Stock
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Youth workers to be trained to support young victims of unreported crime

Youth Work
NCS's Gifford: 'We know schools would like to up their enrichment offer'. Picture: NCS Trust
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National Citizen Service partners with DoE for school activities pilot

Youth Work
Too many care-experienced young people in Devon live in unsuitable accommodation, according to Ofsted
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Ofsted calls for action over council's care leaver accommodation crisis

Social Care