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Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Friday, June 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

| CYP Now

An independent panel of experts will be created to vet the decisions of local safeguarding children board chairs under revised safeguarding guidance published today.

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of children being made subject to special guardianship orders (SGOs) is continuing to rise, government figures have shown.

Top judge Sir Nicholas Wall calls for better rights for unmarried couples

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Thursday, February 3, 2011

| CYP Now

England's top family judge has called for unmarried couples to get new rights to share property and money if they break up.

26-week target ‘could limit help for substance misusing parents'

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Thursday, May 1, 2014

| CYP Now

The effectiveness of a specialist court to tackle parental substance misuse could be undermined as a result of the introduction of the 26-week care proceedings target, academics have warned.

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

MPs urged to oppose child support proposals

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| CYP Now

MPs have been urged to oppose controversial changes to child support by a group of organisations including Gingerbread and the Children's Society.

Ofsted awards first ‘outstanding' ratings for children's services

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Two local authorities have become the first to be awarded "outstanding" judgments under Ofsted's controversial inspection framework for children's services.

Parents struggle to cope with their children's bad behaviour

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

| CYP Now

Parents are increasingly concerned about children's aggressive behaviour, often leading to feelings of desperation and shame, charity Family Lives has warned.

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

| CYP Now

A greater emphasis must be placed on relationships for children in care rather than the type of placement option, an inquiry by eight charities has found.

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Figures show fall in English GCSE grades; number of fines issued to parents in Suffolk for allowing their children to miss school rises by 500 per cent; and Department for Education reveals drop in young people not in education, employment or training, all in the news today.

Labour 'to boost kinship care support'

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Labour wants to see more children at risk of being taken into care instead be given the chance to live with extended family members.

Ofsted rates government-imposed children's services trust 'inadequate'

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Friday, November 27, 2015

| CYP Now

An independent children's services trust that was established on government orders has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Majority of family courts miss 26-week target

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Monday, September 1, 2014

| CYP Now

More than two-thirds of court areas in England have failed to meet a target for care proceedings to be completed within six months.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

Courts deliver blow to government adoption drive

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's push on adoptions is facing a setback after it was claimed rises in the number of children being adopted will stall due to courts granting fewer adoption orders.

Concern as Ofsted ceases regulation of outsourced social work

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Friday, May 29, 2015

| CYP Now

The children's sector has criticised the government's continuing drive to outsource children's social care after Ofsted this week ceased regulation of third-party providers.

BASW to take on College of Social Work functions

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Thursday, August 20, 2015

| CYP Now

The British Association of Social Work (BASW) is to take on the majority of functions performed by The College of Social Work (TCSW) from next month, it has been announced.

DfE commits to fresh funding for social care innovation programme

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

| CYP Now

Local authorities and charities will be able to access a fresh round of government funding to test innovative ideas for children's social care, it has emerged.

Ministers consider legislation on shared parenting

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Monday, February 6, 2012

| CYP Now

Ministers will publish proposals on the legal right to shared parenting following separations, despite a government-commissioned review concluding that equal parental rights could compromise children's welfare.

Half of families will struggle to pay child maintenance fees

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

| CYP Now

Close to half (46 per cent) of single parents currently using the Child Support Agency (CSA) will not be able to afford proposed fees to access the new child maintenance service, a poll by charity Gingerbread has found.

Timpson strips Slough of responsibility for children's services

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services are to be delivered outside of council control in Slough as part of government efforts to improve performance.

Ofsted criticises Knowsley's 'inadequate' child protection services

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Children in Knowsley are being left at risk of harm due to serious failures in child protection services, a damning Ofsted report which labelled the authority "inadequate" has found.

Alison O'Sullivan to be ADCS president in 2015

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Thursday, January 2, 2014

| CYP Now

The head of children's services for Kirklees has been announced as the vice president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services for 2014/15.

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

A council's children's services department has been rated as "requires improvement" by Ofsted after inspectors found a number of areas that need to be addressed.

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Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

Top judge Sir Nicholas Wall calls for better rights for unmarried couples

26-week target ‘could limit help for substance misusing parents'

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

MPs urged to oppose child support proposals

Ofsted awards first ‘outstanding' ratings for children's services

Parents struggle to cope with their children's bad behaviour

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

Labour 'to boost kinship care support'

Ofsted rates government-imposed children's services trust 'inadequate'

Majority of family courts miss 26-week target

Slough children's services to become independent trust

Courts deliver blow to government adoption drive

Concern as Ofsted ceases regulation of outsourced social work

BASW to take on College of Social Work functions

DfE commits to fresh funding for social care innovation programme

Ministers consider legislation on shared parenting

Half of families will struggle to pay child maintenance fees

Timpson strips Slough of responsibility for children's services

Ofsted criticises Knowsley's 'inadequate' child protection services

Alison O'Sullivan to be ADCS president in 2015

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

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