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LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

Friday, February 5, 2016

| CYP Now

Uncertainty over the future of serious case reviews (SCRs) is damaging local safeguarding arrangements, local safeguarding children board (LSCB) leaders have warned.

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Police must be given greater discretion when dealing with children who share explicit pictures of themselves so that their future life chances are not harmed, a group of MPs and peers has said.

Children as young as seven ‘show signs' of future gang involvement

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Police, councils, youth services, and schools should be working with children as young as seven to prevent them getting involved with gangs or violent youth crime, it has been claimed.

Extremism strategy to put madrassas under closer scrutiny

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Monday, October 19, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) will develop a new system to intervene in unofficial Islamic schools where there are concerns about the way children are being taught, it has been announced.

LSCBs in crisis due to funding shortfall, report reveals

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Monday, June 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Local safeguarding children's boards (LSCB) are at "breaking point" because their health, criminal justice and education members are failing to provide enough funding or attend meetings, according to a damning report.

Durham adopts training for professionals to spot CSE

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Durham has become the first area in the country to adopt a US training initiative to help police officers and other professionals to better identify child sexual exploitation (CSE).

MPs criticise Ofsted and DfE for 'Trojan Horse' failings

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs have criticised Ofsted and the Department for Education (DfE) for their handling of the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham.

Inspectorates slam youth offending agencies for resettlement failings

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Friday, March 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Probation, education and health inspectors have criticised poor-quality support for young offenders when released from custody.

Gang prevention work needs to start in primary school, say MPs

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Friday, February 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Urgent action is needed in schools to warn pupils as young as seven of the dangers of gang involvement, according to a report by MPs.

Government to fast-track legislation for mandatory FGM reporting

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Friday, January 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The government intends to change the law to make reporting suspected cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) mandatory prior to May's general election.

Barnardo's calls for better education on the dangers of 'sexting'

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Barnardo's has urged police forces not to take a "heavy-handed" approach to dealing with young people found to have sent explicit images of themselves to friends.

School safeguarding failures prompt intervention threat

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Monday, December 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has warned that the government could intervene in the running of a school where a teacher abducted and had sex with a 15-year-old pupil.

Daily roundup: Trafficking, child benefit and children's homes

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Monday, December 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Proposed anti-slavery legislation to be published; Cameron rejects child benefit cap; and consultation launched on children's homes inspection framework, all in the news today.

Minister criticises Hamzah Khan review findings

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has slammed a review into the death of toddler Hamzah Khan for failing to answer key questions about the case, claiming it contains "glaring absences".

Council budget cuts ‘put services at risk'

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

| CYP Now

Charities and councils have warned that children's services will be endangered by plans to cut local government budgets by 2.3 per cent between 2014/15 and 2015/16.

School police officers cut youth crime

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Basing police officers in schools reduces youth crime and antisocial behaviour, according to a report.

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

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Monday, April 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Rochdale faces legal action over care comments; no further action against former youth police and crime commissioner, and half of youth service jobs to go in Warwickshire, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Female genital mutilation, child poverty and arrests of girls

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| CYP Now

NSPCC warning over FGM teacher training gaps, predictions of a nine per cent rise in child poverty, and police arrest fewer girls, all in the news today.

Autism restraint ruling prompts call for police training

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Friday, February 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Special educational needs (SEN) campaigners are calling for an urgent overhaul of police training, after the Court of Appeal ruled that officers breached the human rights of a young autistic boy when they restrained him.

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect to be suffering from neglect, but up to 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, a report has warned.

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LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

Children as young as seven ‘show signs' of future gang involvement

Extremism strategy to put madrassas under closer scrutiny

LSCBs in crisis due to funding shortfall, report reveals

Durham adopts training for professionals to spot CSE

MPs criticise Ofsted and DfE for 'Trojan Horse' failings

Inspectorates slam youth offending agencies for resettlement failings

Gang prevention work needs to start in primary school, say MPs

Government to fast-track legislation for mandatory FGM reporting

Barnardo's calls for better education on the dangers of 'sexting'

School safeguarding failures prompt intervention threat

Daily roundup: Trafficking, child benefit and children's homes

Minister criticises Hamzah Khan review findings

Council budget cuts ‘put services at risk'

School police officers cut youth crime

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

Daily roundup: Female genital mutilation, child poverty and arrests of girls

Autism restraint ruling prompts call for police training

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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