Supporting families affected by online sexual offending

• Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

When a parent is found to have viewed child sexual abuse...

Legal Update: Care – A protected characteristic?

• Social Care | Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal | Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Ellen Broome, managing director of CoramBAAF, explains how...

Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training 2023/24

• Careers | Courses and training | Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Management | Ofsted | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work

With many parts of the sector facing recruitment challenges,...

Interview: Lord Jim Knight, chair of an independent review of Ofsted

• Children's Services | Management | Ofsted

Derren Hayes speaks to the former MP and chair of an...

Legal: Illegal Migration Act – an update

• Children's rights | Children's Services | Legal

Stewart MacLachlan, legal and policy manager at Coram...

Legal Update: The Carer’s Leave Act 2023

• Children's Services | Children's rights | Social Care | Legal | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Foster Care

Augusta Itua, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, assesses the...

Interview: Peter O’Hara, health and social care technology entrepreneur

• Children's Services | Service configuration | Management

Derren Hayes speaks to the health and social care technology...

Legal Update: Keeping children in care safe

• Children's Services | Children's rights | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

CoramBAAF head of policy, research and development James...

Legal Update: Family group conferences

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Children's rights | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal | Preventing Care Proceedings

Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford,...

Inspections Clinic: Prisoners with restricted status

• Children's Services | Children's rights | Youth Justice | Youth custody | Youth Offending

Young prisoners who have committed the most serious crimes...

Interview: Lisa Harker, director, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory

• Health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Mental Health | Interview

Derren Hayes speaks to the director of the Nuffield Family...

Legal Update: Kinship care arrangements

• Social Care | Kinship care | Legal | Children's Services | Children's rights

Clare Seth, kinship consultant at CoramBAAF, analyses the...

Interview: ADCS president John Pearce

• Children's Services | Interview

Fiona Simpson speaks to new ADCS president John Pearce about...

Legal Update: Illegal Migration Bill

• Social Care | Asylum | Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal

Marianne Lagrue, policy and programmes manager in the...

Legal Update: Review of Ukraine schemes

• Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal | Social Care | Asylum

With Homes for Ukraine and other schemes to support...

Can parenting support help families better navigate future challenges?

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Three parenting experts on the impact of the cost-of-living...

Award winners show what sets them apart

• Children's Services | Youth Work | Education

Since their launch in 2005, the Children & Young People Now...

Parenting Programmes: Special Report

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Renewed recognition of the value of parenting support has...

Legal Update: Legal aid changes

• Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal

Richard Oldershaw, senior legal consultant at Coram...

How charities are doing more for less

• Financial management | Management | Children's Services

The cost-of-living crisis means charities working with...

Interview: Jon Sparkes, Unicef UK chief executive

• Children's Services

The chief executive of Unicef UK tells Derren Hayes why we...

Challenges for the sector in 2023

• Children's Services

CYP Now looks ahead and examines what issues are expected to...

Legal Update: Mental health detention

• Legal | Mental health | Health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Mental Health

Lauren Morling and Sihana Bina of Coram International set...

Interview: Anne Longfield on how commission sets out action to tackle youth violence

• Social Care | Children's Services | Youth Justice

Derren Hayes speaks to Anne Longfield, former children’s...

Legal Update: Relationships with the court

• Children's rights | Children's Services | Legal | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF,...

Inspections Clinic: Children’s services inspections

• Children's Services | Ofsted

Jo Stephenson summarises trends in inspection outcomes for...

Making towns child friendly

• Youth Work | Participation | Children's Services | Children's rights

The way spaces are designed can have a huge impact on the...

The Road to Serenity: Founder of social care provider publishes memoir

• Children's Services | Social Care | Careers | Youth Work

Emily Aklan, founder of children’s social care provider...

Legal Update: The Online Safety Bill

• Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

With the delay of the Online Safety Bill, the UK should not...

Interview: Tina Haux, director of NatCen’s Centre for Children and Families

• Children's Services | Interview

Derren Hayes speaks to the director of NatCen’s new Centre...

Special Report on Early Help

• Children's Services | Early help | Preventing Care Proceedings

With the Care Review finding a system increasingly geared...

Family Action embeds trauma-informed practice at heart of provision

• Children's Services | Social Care

Recognising the impact of past trauma and tackling its...

Special Report: Trauma-Informed Services

• Social Care | Children's Services

Trauma-informed practice (TIP) emphasises young people’s...

Doncaster U-turn on independent trust raises questions over model

• Social Care | Children's Services

The first children’s services trust to be established is to...

Using technology to support partnership working with children and families

• Children's Services

Liquidlogic and CYP Now has put together a guide on how to...

Legal Update: Kinship care and the Care Review

• Social Care | Kinship care | Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF,...

Mobile provision: Children’s services on the road

• Children's Services | Youth Work | Early Years

Mobile provision allows children’s services teams to reach...

CYP Now Awards winner profile: 3D Drumchapel

• Children's Services

Glasgow-based charity 3D Drumchapel, which won the family...

Legal Update: Migrant looked-after children

• Legal | Social Care | Asylum | Children's Services | Children's rights

With one in 10 children in care being non-British, local...

Award-winning work with children

• Children's Services

With the launch of the CYP Now Awards 2022, we take a look...

International Focus: Perinatal care, Australia

• Health | Young parents | Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect

The cost to the UK of perinatal mental health difficulties...

Legal Update: Discharge of SGOs

• Children's rights | Children's Services | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal

Leonie Jordan, associate legal consultant at CoramBAAF,...

Sustainable Services: Special Report

• Children's Services | Management | Service configuration | Education | Social Care | Youth Work

‘Eco anxiety’ among young people is rising prompting many to...

We are the social work champions

• Preventing Care Proceedings | Social Care | Children's Services

Yorkshire and the Humber region’s Children’s Social Work...

Supporting families to help themselves

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Glasgow-based charity 3D Drumchapel has supported families...

Legal Update: Support for Afghan children

• Legal | Social Care | Asylum | Children's Services | Children's rights

Marianne Lagrue, policy manager, Coram Children’s Legal...

Children & Young People Now Awards 2021 Shortlist

• Children's Services | Youth Work | Education | Early Years | Social Care | Youth Justice

The CYP Now Awards highlight the very best practice in work...

Interview: Tim O’Neill

• Children's Services | Interview | Management | Leadership

Derren Hayes talks to the managing director of children’s...

Domestic Abuse Bill: Key measures for children and sector reaction

• Social Care | Children's Services

The Domestic Abuse Bill is set to become law, recognising...

The price of British citizenship

• Children's Services | Children's rights

There is increasing scrutiny of the high cost of a child...

Local Spotlight: Lambeth Council

• Children's Services | Child poverty | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Preventing Care Proceedings

Corporate commitment to boosting children and young people’s...

Maternity care for migrants, Sweden

• Health | Young parents | Public Health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

CYP Now has teamed up with the Churchill Fellowship to...

Local spotlight: Haringey Council

• Children's Services | Management | Leadership | Service configuration

Borough with a foot in both inner and outer London has...

How artists help children to explore their life stories

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Creative Life Story Work sees care-experienced children work...

International focus: Care-experience fellowship

• Children's Services | Children's rights

As a new round of Churchill Fellowships is launched, this...

Children with a parent in prison get timely help

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care

Project speeds up process of identifying children affected...

Young women grow confidence and help create safe, inclusive community spaces

• Children's Services | Children's rights | Youth Work | Participation

Young women from across Fife have created a safe spaces...

How I Got Here: Honor Whitby, senior practitioner, Ormiston Families

• Careers | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Honor Whitby, senior practitioner at Ormiston Families on...

Integrated service reshapes SEND support for Rochdale

• Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Education | Special Educational Needs | Children's Services

Award-winning project brought together local authority and...

Parent-child relationships enhanced by inclusive prevention programme

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities is used...

Family Links nurtures parents’ emotional skills

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Family Links’ Nurturing Programme aims to strengthen family...

Proven strategies benefit adoptive parents

• Adoption | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Social workers deliver adoption-specific parenting skills...

Local Spotlight: Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

• Children's Services | Management | Service configuration

North West borough has plans to transform children's social...

Test and learn approach improves outcomes in Southend

• Early Years | Children's centres | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Families in deprived areas of Southend are being supported...

Childline uses tech to track impact of its online support

• Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Children's Services | Children's rights | Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care

Childline Online Services aims to empower children and young...

Parents hone their skills thanks to extra support

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Parenting programmes and workshops develop families’ skills...

Suicide bereavement support, Denmark

• Health | Mental health | Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Mental Health

Anna Wardley visited Denmark to speak to leading experts and...

How I Got Here: Scott Roberts, home support worker, Barnardo’s

• Children's Services | Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's rights | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Scott Roberts, home support worker, Barnardo’s Brighton and...

Reorganisation enhances Westminster early help support

• Children's Services | Early help | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Inner London council turns children’s centres into family...

Intensive support scheme diverts Manchester young people at risk from gangs

• Children's Services | Early help | Youth Justice | Crime prevention

Practitioners use relational and trauma-informed practice...

Local Spotlight: Brent Borough Council

• Children's Services

Imminent departure of longstanding DCS at ‘good’ London...

Bath & North East Somerset: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Ofsted | Leadership

South West council maintained high standards during the...

Local Spotlight: Dorset Council

• Children's Services | Management

South West council has overcome reorganisation, the pandemic...

University nursery uses latest tech to hit net zero by 2030

• Children's Services | Early Years | Nurseries

An ambitious project combining sustainable energy, digital...

Young people help shape low-energy children’s homes

• Children's Services | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Participation

More than five years ago work started on a £7m project to...

Promoting respect for diversity in the community

• Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Early Years

Groundbreaking programme helps parents realise how their...

Local Spotlight: Surrey County Council

• Children's Services

Affluent South East council has had to navigate difficult...

Sunderland City Council: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Ofsted

Despite significant social challenges for children and...

Blackpool Borough Council: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services

Deprived coastal town has invested in new practice model and...

Peterborough City Council: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Ofsted

Children’s services in prosperous commuter city are rated...

Newham Council: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Management

Diverse east London borough has been badly hit by Covid,...

The Bi-borough, west London: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Management

The "outstanding"-rated Bi-borough puts its success down to...

Local Spotlight - North Tyneside Council

• Social Care | Children's Services

North East council has improved outcomes for disadvantaged...

Tech solutions help young people overcome anxieties

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health

The Children’s Society is using virtual reality with...

Hertfordshire County Council – Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Council with reputation for innovation turns its attention...

Prospective adopters use technology to see the reality of childhood trauma

• Fostering and adoption | Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Virtual reality technology used to improve understanding of...

System links council’s education and social care data

• Education | Social Care | Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Service configuration | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Visibility of children’s wider needs helps care and...

Disaster-based trauma support, Australia

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Education | Safeguarding in education | Mental Health

The rugged, remote and inhospitable nature of much of the...

How peer support helps children cope better with grief

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Mental Health

Weekly sessions of peer support give children and families a...

Wakefield Council: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Management | Leadership | Social Care

Council for former Yorkshire coal mining town has big plans...

Art therapy helps girls affected by youth violence

• Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health

A south London-based project is using creative expression as...

Warwickshire County Council: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Information sharing | Early help | Management | Leadership | Service configuration

Midlands authority has invested in the children’s workforce...

Bi-borough develops joint system for SEND services

• Children's Services | Special Educational Needs | Early help

Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea councils collaborate...

Worcestershire County Council

• Leadership | Service configuration | Children's Services | Social Care | Education | Health

Long-time struggling West Midlands council is the latest to...

London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Leadership

East London council has made great strides in support for...

Lincolnshire County Council: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services

Stable workforce and good leadership help East Midlands...

Gloucestershire County Council

• Children's Services | Leadership

Struggling South West authority aims to tackle high social...

Reading children's services: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services

Creation of not-for-profit company to run children's...

Karen Childs Smith: How I Got Here

• Careers | Children's Services

Karen Childs Smith, head of knowledge and information at...

Child development early warning system, Andalucía, Spain

• Health | Children's Services | Preventing Care Proceedings

Geographically, Andalucía is a mix of popular coastal resort...

Parental Involvement and its Effects on Children’s Education

• Education | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Evidence shows parental engagement in children’s learning at...

Adverse outcomes in adolescence following early childhood disadvantage

• Health | Education | Children's Services | Child poverty | Preventing Care Proceedings

Disadvantage in early childhood – 0 to 5 years old – is...

Improving the way family support services work for minority ethnic families

• Children's Services | Early help

This report explores the experiences of minority ethnic...

Leading and delivering early childhood services: 10 insights from 20 places across England and Wales

• Children's Services | Early help | Early Years

This report gives 10 insights for leading maternity and...

Study of Adolescent Young Carers Aged 15–17 in Six European Countries

• Social Care | Families/Parenting | Children's Services

Young carers are children and young people under the age of...

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children in Child Welfare Services in England

• Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services

The report authors obtained data from the Department for...

Responding to young people’s views on tackling climate change

• Children's Services | Youth Work

Young people care about the environment – let’s give them...

Online programs as tools to improve parenting: A meta-analytic review

• Social Care | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

This review provides an assessment of 11 web-based parenting...

Why Families on a Low Income are Spending More During Covid-19

• Children's Services | Child poverty | Families/Parenting | Coronavirus

The Pandemic Pressures study is a collaboration between the...

Enhancing Outcomes of Low-Intensity Parenting Groups Through Sufficient Exemplar Training: A Randomized Control Trial

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Low-intensity parenting programmes play an important role in...

The Cost-Effectiveness of UK Parenting Programmes for Preventing Children’s Behaviour Problems – A Review of the Evidence

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

This paper reviews the economic evidence available to...

Making Fathers Relevant: How Practitioners Include Both Parents in Talk About Parenting Programmes

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

This paper reports on a study that investigated parental...

Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 1

• Social Care | Children's Services | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care

OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...

Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 3

• Social Care | Children's Services

OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...

Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 2

• Social Care | Children's Services | Foster Care

OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...

Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 4

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Children's Services

OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...

Research - Report: Impact of Children’s Lack of Understanding of Why They are in Care

• Children's Services

In England and Wales adopted children must be given a life...

ICT-Supported Social Work Interventions with Youth: A Critical Review

• Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption

This study conducted a systematic review of information and...

A Review of the Risks Associated with Children and Young People’s Social Media Use and the Implications for Social Work Practice

• Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

This study reviewed the research literature to understand...

Returning Children Home From Care: What Can Be Learned From Local Authority Data?

• Social Care | Leaving care | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Leaving Care

Researchers from the University of East Anglia wanted to...

Shared Services Briefing

• Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration

This briefing highlights many of the issues facing councils,...

Does Austerity Drive Public Service Innovation? Evidence From Shared Senior Management Teams in Local Government

• Children's Services | Information sharing | Service configuration | Leadership

The paper presents the results of an in-depth analysis of...

Ofsted and Children's Services: What Factors are Associated with Inspection Results?

• Children's Services | Ofsted | Inspections

Researchers from Cardiff University wanted to find out what...

Trends in Children's and Young People's Services Expenditure in England

• Children's Services | Service configuration

Researchers from the University of Sheffield and the...

Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: Knowledge, Confidence and Training within a Contemporary UK Social Work Practice and Policy Context

• Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

This paper reports on the implications of a study...

Combatting Child Sexual Exploitation with Young People and Parents: Contributions to a Twenty-First-Century Family Support Agenda

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

This article discusses family work with young people and...

Analysing Repeated Referrals to Children's Services in England

• Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings

This study set out to discover the factors behind children...

Patient Safety Incidents Involving Sick Children in Primary Care

• Health | Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection

Researchers examine to what extent harm caused by medical...

Suicide by Children and Young People in England

• Health | Children's Services | Information sharing | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health

Researchers examine whether specific experiences such as...

A serene setting to address harmful sexual behaviour

• Children's Services | Management | Service configuration | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Glebe House is a residential home providing therapeutic care...

Survey of Schools' Work with Child and Adolescent Mental Health

• Education | Extra-curricular | Health | Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Service configuration | Mental Health

A research team led by University College London and the...

Factors Affecting Age at Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in UK

• Education | Special Educational Needs | Health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

A number of initiatives have aimed to increase early...

Youth Mental Health: New Economic Evidence

• Health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Leadership | Service configuration | Mental Health

Study of the economic impact of youth mental health services...

Special Report: Attachment and Neglect - Research Evidence

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect