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Shared Services: Special Report

    Features
  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local authorities to find a wider range of care options for vulnerable children and introduce a greater array of good practice approaches to improve outcomes.

Beacon of hope for child abuse victims

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
The Lighthouse is a ground-breaking project aimed at improving experiences and outcomes for children and young people who have been sexually abused. Tom de Castella meets the team.

The contextual safeguarding debate

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Local authority leaders discussed how they are using contextual safeguarding approaches to improve young people's safety outside the home, at a CYP Now debate in partnership with Servelec.

Trauma-Informed Practice: Special Report

    Features
  • Thursday, September 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Experiencing traumatic events can have a lasting negative impact on children's development and wellbeing, so policymakers and service leaders are developing new trauma-informed interventions.

Gangs and Criminal Exploitation: Special Report

    Features
  • Wednesday, July 31, 2019
    • | CYP Now
A rise in gang violence and youth crime has prompted policymakers to develop legislation to tackle the threats and boost funding for statutory and voluntary agencies to support child criminal exploitation victims.

Domestic Abuse: Special Report

Cases of domestic abuse recorded by police and children's services have risen significantly over the past decade. The government has published a draft bill containing new protections to tackle the problem.

Special Report: E-Safety

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
The digital world has become an integral part of young people's lives, but amid growing concerns of being exposed to harm, Derren Hayes looks at e-safety projects that work to keep children safe online.

Special Report: Technology in Children's Services

Children's services are increasingly using technology to boost information sharing among professionals and across agency and geographical boundaries to get help to vulnerable children and families earlier.

Child Sexual Exploitation: Policy context

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Child sexual exploitation, while on the radar of child protection agencies and organisations, was catapulted to the top of the political and policy agenda by the revelations in August 2014 that 1,400 children in Rotherham had been systematically sexually abused and exploited over a 16-year period.

Special Report: Child Sexual Exploitation

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Rotherham's child sexual exploitation scandal propelled the issue to the forefront of policymaking. CYP Now investigates the key learning and strides taken to tackle perpetrators and protect children and young people.

Disorganized Attachment in Infancy: A Review of the Phenomenon and its Implications for Clinicians and Policy-Makers

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018
    • | CYP Now
This review paper, co-authored by international academics and clinicians, presents a consensus of what is currently understood about disorganised infant attachment and the implications for clinical and child welfare practices. It identifies misconceptions and misapplications of the concept and provides examples of evidence-based interventions that use attachment theory to help families.

Special Report: Children's Mental Health

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018
    • | CYP Now
As concerns persist over children and young people's mental health and the ability of services to cope with rising demand, there are plenty of pockets of innovation and effective practice across the system.

How to improve care, by those who have lived it

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Those who have been in care are uniquely placed to identify how well services for looked-after children are working. Here five care leavers share their experiences and set out what needs to change.

Inspections: Joint targeted area inspections

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 28, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Inspections of local safeguarding arrangements were introduced in 2016 to examine joint working across agencies, uncovering examples of how areas tackle neglect, child sexual exploitation and domestic abuse.

Special Report: Intrafamilial Abuse

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Data shows the number of child abuse, parental neglect and domestic violence cases is rising, raising tough challenges for how child protection services and professionals work effectively with families.

Legal Update: How to tackle repeat removals

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, explores the need to address the problems of parents who lose successive children in repeat care proceedings.

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