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Councils turn to inducements to attract scarce fostering families

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Research reveals local authorities and providers face a huge shortage of foster carers to meet demand. Some councils are now offering ‘golden hellos’ to potential carers, but this practice has triggered mixed views.

Social work exits prompt shortage concerns

Analysis

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

| CYP Now

Complex caseloads, Covid burnout and racism are all factors in children’s social workers quitting which need urgent action, say experts.

Care Review: key proposals for the children’s services workforce

Analysis

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

| CYP Now

A range of challenges including excess bureaucracy, ineffective technology and out-of-date legislation have resulted in a workforce crisis in many aspects of children’s social care, which requires a complete overhaul.

Birmingham's social care transfer

Analysis

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

| CYP Now

England's largest authority outlines plans to transfer children's social care services to an independent trust.

Outcomes-based commissioner: Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children

Analysis

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes talks to Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children.

Councils turn to ‘golden hellos' to solve social worker shortage

Analysis

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| CYP Now

CYP Now investigation reveals local authorities increasingly using incentive payments to attract and retain social workers and compete with recruitment agencies amid staff shortages and the cost-of-living crisis.

Factors behind social work staff retention

Analysis

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| CYP Now

CYP Now probe highlights importance of wider support package in efforts to retain social workers.

Shining a light on risks outside the home

Analysis

Thursday, December 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Authors set out five key features of promising social care responses to extra-familial risks and harms drawn from studying international systems.

Care Review response: funding fails to match scale of reforms

Analysis

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders back the ‘direction’ of government reforms on social work training, outcomes monitoring and fostering support but say lack of resources and long timescales will undermine delivery

Decade of change: factors driving the rise in care during the 2010

Analysis

Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

Families under pressure due to austerity and more affected by addiction problems are two reasons for record numbers of children in care, while a legal ruling has seen adoptions fall and special guardianships increase.

England eyes Scotland review for lessons on care system overhaul

Analysis

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| CYP Now

Taking three years, Scotland’s care review sets out detailed proposals for changing the “broken” care system. With the UK government pledging its own care review, sector experts identify what England can learn.

'Shared parenting' gets rejected

Analysis

Monday, January 9, 2012

| CYP Now

The Family Justice Review has denied the presumption of shared parenting. Kirsten Anderson, Carolyn Hamilton and Jo-Anne Prudhomme from the Coram Children's Legal Centre examine why

The quest to end child poverty: do coalition policies measure up?

Analysis

Monday, January 23, 2012

| CYP Now

The government is committed to end child poverty by 2020, so what will be the impact of its social policies in achieving this goal? CYP Now asks experts from a range of children's organisations for their verdict.

Fight to be heard - why services must do better for deaf children

Analysis

Monday, September 15, 2014

| CYP Now

New figures show services for deaf children continue to be cut across the country. Emily Rogers looks at how some projects are successfully supporting this group of young people despite the challengesWhy services must do better for deaf children

Birmingham enters trust era

Analysis

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Getting out of "inadequate" by end of the year is the first target for Birmingham's new children's trust.

Tackling plight of young carers

Analysis

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

| CYP Now

Children's Commissioner for England report finds councils are struggling to meet the needs of young carers.

Three key questions the Care Review must answer to improve the system

Analysis

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| CYP Now

The Care Review promises a “once in a generation opportunity to transform the children's social care system and improve the lives of children and their families”.

Agencies innovate to recruit foster carers

Analysis

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

| CYP Now

The pandemic has reduced the existing pool of foster carers, so charities and councils have utlised digital methods to attract people to fostering

Care experts outline ambitions

Analysis

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Care-experienced people want the Care Review to shape a system that better meets children’s needs.

Major charities refine their focus as incomes are set to diminish

Analysis

Monday, December 12, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's charities are facing a tumultuous year ahead as increased social hardship heightens demand for their services while the attainment of funding becomes more challenging.

Early intervention grant raises questions over fairness and bias

Analysis

Monday, January 9, 2012

| CYP Now

Against a backdrop of continued austerity, the announcement last month that the early intervention grant is set to rise by six per cent from April appeared to offer some hope that services tackling deep-seated issues among the most disadvantaged children and families would be boosted.

Regional approach to staff recruitment

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2019

| CYP Now

Latest Department for Education workforce data shows that while the number of children's social workers rose three per cent last year, staff turnover, vacant posts and use of agency practitioners remained stubbornly high.

Uncertainty remains on outsourcing children's services

Analysis

Monday, July 7, 2014

| CYP Now

The decision to allow private firms to run child protection services through non-profit subsidiaries alarms campaigners.

Social work employment trends

Analysis

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

| CYP Now

ADCS's Rachael Wardell responds to five key developments in the children's social work workforce.

Three trailblazer councils to pilot MacAlister's ‘families first’ plan

Analysis

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Council leaders share early proposals on delivery of the government's Families First for Children scheme designed to ‘test new ways to reform every part of children's social care’ in response to the Care Review.

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Councils turn to inducements to attract scarce fostering families

Social work exits prompt shortage concerns

Care Review: key proposals for the children’s services workforce

Birmingham's social care transfer

Outcomes-based commissioner: Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children

Councils turn to ‘golden hellos' to solve social worker shortage

Factors behind social work staff retention

Shining a light on risks outside the home

Care Review response: funding fails to match scale of reforms

Decade of change: factors driving the rise in care during the 2010

England eyes Scotland review for lessons on care system overhaul

'Shared parenting' gets rejected

The quest to end child poverty: do coalition policies measure up?

Fight to be heard - why services must do better for deaf children

Birmingham enters trust era

Tackling plight of young carers

Three key questions the Care Review must answer to improve the system

Agencies innovate to recruit foster carers

Care experts outline ambitions

Major charities refine their focus as incomes are set to diminish

Early intervention grant raises questions over fairness and bias

Regional approach to staff recruitment

Uncertainty remains on outsourcing children's services

Social work employment trends

Three trailblazer councils to pilot MacAlister's ‘families first’ plan

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