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Councils could save £150m on foster care services, says report

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities would be able to save a total of £150m a year by improving the way they work with prospective foster parents, a report has claimed.

Young people unite to air their views on riots

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Friday, August 12, 2011

| CYP Now

Young people turned out in their scores in central London as part of an event aimed at giving them the opportunity to air their views on the recent unrest and its causes.

Pensioners 'could help young people by paying National Insurance'

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

| CYP Now

Pensioners should continue to pay National Insurance in order to fund employment schemes for young people, a campaign organisation has proposed.

ADCS calls for Ofsted workforce shake-up

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Friday, October 31, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted must recruit existing children's services professionals to inspect local authority social care arrangements if it is to boost confidence in its judgments, the head of the Association of Directors of children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Council early intervention projects get funding boost

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Three local authorities have been awarded £7.6m of government funding to deliver early intervention projects for young children and their families.

DCLG to fund community role in delivering children's services

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

| CYP Now

Local charities and community groups are to play a key role in designing and delivering children's services, such as child protection, through an initiative funded by government.

Top judge to lead on youth justice in landmark move

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

| CYP Now

A leading judge has been selected to oversee youth justice matters in criminal courts for the first time, in a move that has been welcomed by campaigners pushing for reform of the youth court system.

Councils should tap into school early help funding, says ADCS

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Friday, January 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Cash-strapped local authorities could work more collaboratively with schools in order to deliver early intervention services, the president-elect of the Association of Directors of Children's Services has said.

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Government changes to tax and benefits have hit families with young children and poorer households the hardest, a major study has found.

Doncaster sees four-fold decrease in children missing from care

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of looked-after children that go missing from care in Doncaster has fallen nearly four-fold over the past year following the introduction of a dedicated support worker.

Jane Ellison confirmed as children's health minister

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Jane Ellison will take on additional responsibilities for children's health and health visiting following her reappointment as minister for public health, the Department of Health has confirmed.

Prime Minister creates taskforces to drive childcare and troubled families reforms

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Efforts to increase provision of free childcare and expand the troubled families initiative will be monitored by new taskforces, the government has announced.

Review recommends ‘revision' of YOT funding levels

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Funding levels for youth offending teams (YOTs) should be ‘revised', a major government-commissioned review has concluded.

Children's commissioner calls for review of children's services cuts

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Thursday, January 7, 2016

| CYP Now

There is an urgent need to review how funding cuts to children's services are affecting children, the children's commissioner for England has told MPs.

Payment-by-results outreach service to further bolster support for troubled families

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

| CYP Now

The government has invested 200m in a payment-by-results scheme offering outreach support to the UK's most troubled families.

Government to pump £200m more into Troubled Families programme

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Monday, June 24, 2013

| CYP Now

The government is to spend £200m to expand the Troubled Families programme to a further 400,000 families.

Councils fail to share new birth data with children's centres

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

| CYP Now

More than a third of councils are failing to share birth data with children's centres, according to a damning Children's Society report into information sharing.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Children of parents who abuse alcohol miss out on support

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Friday, October 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Children of parents who misuse alcohol are missing out on help and protection because local services sometimes fail to identify their needs, a report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner has found.

Government to push ahead with axing emergency support fund

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Thursday, November 6, 2014

| CYP Now

More than £170m in funding for support and emergency grants to help families in a crisis is to be axed by government.

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Councils could save £150m on foster care services, says report

Young people unite to air their views on riots

Pensioners 'could help young people by paying National Insurance'

ADCS calls for Ofsted workforce shake-up

Council early intervention projects get funding boost

DCLG to fund community role in delivering children's services

Top judge to lead on youth justice in landmark move

Councils should tap into school early help funding, says ADCS

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

Doncaster sees four-fold decrease in children missing from care

Jane Ellison confirmed as children's health minister

Prime Minister creates taskforces to drive childcare and troubled families reforms

Review recommends ‘revision' of YOT funding levels

Children's commissioner calls for review of children's services cuts

Payment-by-results outreach service to further bolster support for troubled families

Government to pump £200m more into Troubled Families programme

Councils fail to share new birth data with children's centres

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Children of parents who abuse alcohol miss out on support

Government to push ahead with axing emergency support fund

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