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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

News

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

News

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.

DfE tightens up special guardianship rules

News

Thursday, December 17, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) is to take action after finding a "significant minority" of children are being placed at risk through inappropriate special guardianship orders (SGOs).

Daily roundup: Care applications data, sex offenders' register and age of consent

News

Thursday, May 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Care applications up 70 per cent; changes to sex offenders' register rules condemned, and barrister's age of consent comments dismissed as "outdated", all in the news today.

Use of expert witnesses in family courts is on the slide, finds Cafcass

News

Thursday, June 6, 2013

| CYP Now

The use of expert witnesses in care proceedings cases, particularly independent social workers, has fallen radically over the last three years.

Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

News

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

| CYP Now

The body set up to oversee the adoption system has issued guidance in an effort to halt a sharp slump in the number of court orders being made for children to be adopted.

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

News

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.

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

News

Friday, January 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been criticised for denigrating foster care with comments she made as the government launched a bid to reverse a sharp drop in adoptions.

Scotland raises leaving care age to 21

News

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Young people in Scotland who are in residential care, foster care, or kinship care will be able to remain in their placement up until the age of 21 as a result of landmark legislation.

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

News

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.

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

News

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.

Labour 'to boost kinship care support'

News

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'

News

Friday, November 27, 2015

| CYP Now

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

Number of children in care at highest level on record, latest figures show

News

Thursday, November 18, 2021

| CYP Now

The number of children in care is at an all-time high, according to latest figures from the Department for Education.

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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

DfE tightens up special guardianship rules

Daily roundup: Care applications data, sex offenders' register and age of consent

Use of expert witnesses in family courts is on the slide, finds Cafcass

Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

Scotland raises leaving care age to 21

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

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

Labour 'to boost kinship care support'

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

Number of children in care at highest level on record, latest figures show

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