Children & Young People Now has the latest news, views and in-depth analysis on key developments affecting policy and practice with disadvantaged children and families.

This month’s analyses:
- Children’s minister Janet Daby sets out plans to boost social work with families
- Expert panel assess the priorities for children’s services over the next five years
- Study highlights how councils can boost take-up of funded childcare entitlements
- Implications of new duties aimed at curbing spending on agency social workers
- How the Met Police hopes its ‘child-first’ strategy will build trust with young people.
Best practice articles:
- Effective use of education, health and care plans and how to make them better
- Special report on the role of youth work in reducing youth violence
- How Adopteens support adopted young people in Yorkshire and the Humber
- A study visit to the US to see the way schools deliver suicide prevention
- Key lessons from the peer review programme inspecting council youth provision.
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