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Residential Care: Special Report

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  • Tuesday, October 27, 2020
  • | CYP Now
As local authorities predict a surge in demand for residential care as a result of the pandemic, CYP Now’s special report looks at policy developments, latest academic research and examples of innovative practice.

Residential Care: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, October 27, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Covid-19 has presented an unprecedented set of challenges for children’s social care services, and this is particularly so for residential child care.

Sibling relationships in the care system

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  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Children’s services and courts face serious challenges when making care plans or permanence orders for siblings, writes Dr John Simmonds, director of policy, research and development at CoramBAAF.

Therapeutic Care: Special Report

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  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
  • | CYP Now
With rises in children coming into care and reporting mental health problems, policymakers and service providers are developing therapeutic care and support across a range of settings to help young people.

Managing risk in children's homes

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  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Risk management is an important element of practice in children's homes. Here Ofsted's national director of social care Yvette Stanley tells Jo Stephenson about what the regulator is looking for from settings.

Forging Lifelong Links for children in care

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  • Tuesday, November 27, 2018
  • | CYP Now
The Lifelong Links model being tested in England and Scotland aims to establish and rebuild key relationships for looked-after children. Jo Stephenson spoke to authorities trialling the approach.

Special Report: Commissioning Care

Commissioners play a pivotal role in ensuring vulnerable children receive the care they need. However, demand and funding pressures are driving the development of new systems and changes in practice.

Around the corner

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  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Young people in residential care will soon have the right to 'stay close' to their placement when they leave, helping smooth the transition to adulthood. Joe Lepper investigates how this is likely to work.

In a good place

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  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
  • | CYP Now
As the number of children in care reaches record levels, Joe Lepper examines the challenge for commissioners to provide children with stable, happy homes that cater to their needs.

Feeling at home

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  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
  • | CYP Now
The Narey review argues that the prevailing view of children's residential care as an 'anachronism' significantly underestimates its contribution. Joe Lepper asks how these views can be overturned.

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