In the May edition of CYP Now: Youth Investment Fund, SEND special and social worker recruitment

Policy top reads:

• Local government leaders seek clarity over Illegal Migration Bill’s impact on council responsibilities for children

• How the Youth Investment Fund is being used to improve facilities for young people in deprived communities

• Cash inducements for new childminders will fail to arrest sector’s decline, warn experts

• Why protocol for managing behavioural issues for children in care needs to be revised if it is cut criminalisation

• New ADCS president John Pearce sets out his priorities for the year

Practice top reads:

• The approaches used by children’s services departments to recruit to social workers from overseas

• Special report on the key measures in the government’s SEND improvement plan

• Good practice in employing young people to volunteer as inspectors

• Child protection expert Ann Marie Christian discusses her work delivering safeguarding training in other countries

• How Creative Classrooms improves primary school students’ emotional literacy through drama and storytelling

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