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Special Report: Residential Care

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Standards of residential child care have never been higher, but a shortage of provision and rising demand due to more traumatised children coming into the system is stretching local authority budgets to the limit.

Managing risk in children's homes

    Features
  • 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

    Features
  • 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.

Are children's home arrests a problem?

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The Howard League for Penal Reform is concerned that children in residential care are being criminalised unfairly, despite a report showing a fall in arrests. Experts debate if enough is being done to tackle the issue.

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.

Special Report: Residential Child Care

    Features
  • Wednesday, June 28, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Lauded for the essential role it plays in the lives of vulnerable young people, the residential child care sector faces increasing financial challenges if it is to continue to deliver quality therapeutic provision.

Around the corner

    Features
  • 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

    Features
  • 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

    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.

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