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Sibling relationships in the care system

    Features
  • 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

    Features
  • 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.

Residential Care: Special Report

    Features
  • 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.

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.

Inspections Clinic: Children’s home challenges

    Features
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted has published a series of research reports on the children’s home sector, providing insight into issues from a lack of suitable care placements to post-pandemic staffing shortages, finds Jo Stephenson.

Residential Care: Policy context

    Features
  • 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.

Trends in care commissioning

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 28, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Andrew Rome, director of Revolution Consulting, which conducted a financial analysis of the largest children’s social care providers, assesses the implications for commissioners of council care services.

Putting the Care Pledge into Practice

    Features
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
To mark the third anniversary of the Care Experienced Conference, which led to the creation of a care pledge, those involved reflect on how the key messages have influenced policy and practice.

Feeling at home

    Features
  • 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.

Commissioning Care: Special Report

Recommendations in the Care Review aim to improve co-ordination and management in the care market while driving down costs for councils, but some believe the proposals do not go far enough.

Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 23, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative consequences on people’s lives, but there are growing efforts to implement trauma-informed practices in services to improve long-term outcomes.

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