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Scotland raises leaving care age to 21

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

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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.

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.

Children affected by domestic abuse must be given 'protected' status, MPs urge

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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

| CYP Now

The government must develop a specific strategy for children affected by domestic abuse, give them "protected" status on waiting lists for mental health services, and impose new legal duties on local authorities to protect them, an influential group of MPs has said.

Children's guardians report rise in late care cases

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

| CYP Now

The proportion of care applications being made late by local authority social workers has risen by a third over the past two years, according to a study of children's guardians' views.

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.

Government admits 26-week care proceedings target 'unlikely' to be met

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Friday, March 27, 2015

| CYP Now

The government has admitted the 26-week target to decide whether a child is taken into care is "highly unlikely" to ever be met for all cases.

Munby warns of increase in radicalisation cases in family courts

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Friday, October 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Increasing numbers of cases involving children whose parents are planning to travel to areas of Syria controlled by Islamic State are coming before family courts, the country's top family judge has warned.

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.

Fast-track social work scheme massively oversubscribed

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Friday, March 4, 2016

| CYP Now

A government-funded fast-track social work training scheme is massively oversubscribed, with more than 10 applicants battling it out for every place, it has emerged.

Record jump in care applications to Cafcass

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Monday, September 12, 2016

| CYP Now

August saw the biggest monthly rise in care applications on record, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has revealed.

Cafcass chief wary over recent fall in care applications

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

| CYP Now

The head of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has dampened hopes that a recent decrease in new care applications represents the start of a sustained fall in children needing protection.

NSPCC urges focus on cases of child sexual abuse by under-18s

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Police have received more than 5,000 reports of under-18-year-olds sexually abusing other children over the last three years, according to figures obtained by the NSPCC.

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.

IROs choose to remain based within councils

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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Independent reviewing officers (IROs) have voted to remain based within local authorities.

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.

Fears raised over ‘damaging' special guardianship placements

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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Vulnerable children are being placed in inappropriate arrangements due to a preference among family judges for special guardianship orders (SGOs) over adoption, it has been claimed.

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Scotland raises leaving care age to 21

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

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

Children affected by domestic abuse must be given 'protected' status, MPs urge

Children's guardians report rise in late care cases

Labour 'to boost kinship care support'

Government admits 26-week care proceedings target 'unlikely' to be met

Munby warns of increase in radicalisation cases in family courts

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

Fast-track social work scheme massively oversubscribed

Record jump in care applications to Cafcass

Cafcass chief wary over recent fall in care applications

NSPCC urges focus on cases of child sexual abuse by under-18s

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

IROs choose to remain based within councils

BASW to take on College of Social Work functions

Fears raised over ‘damaging' special guardianship placements

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