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Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

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.

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.

MPs reverse amendments on legal aid

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

| CYP Now

MPs have reversed an amendment made by the House of Lords that called for children to be protected from any changes to legal aid.

Children's voices must not be lost in family justice overhaul, warns Cafcass chief

News

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

| CYP Now

Radical plans to change the family justice system must not endanger the service children and families receive, the head of Cafcass has said.

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'

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

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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.

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

News

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.

Gove appoints Relate chief as Cafcass chair

News

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Lib Dem peer Baroness Claire Tyler has been appointed chair of Cafcass (the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service).

Family Justice Review recommends absorption of Cafcass

News

Thursday, March 31, 2011

| CYP Now

Cafcass will be subsumed into a new family justice service as part of proposals outlined following a review of the system.

Minister announces foster care support for councils

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Friday, May 17, 2013

| CYP Now

A new package of support to help local authorities attract and retain foster carers has been unveiled by the government.

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.

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Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

Children's guardians report rise in late care cases

MPs reverse amendments on legal aid

Children's voices must not be lost in family justice overhaul, warns Cafcass chief

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'

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

Fast-track social work scheme massively oversubscribed

Record jump in care applications to Cafcass

Gove appoints Relate chief as Cafcass chair

Family Justice Review recommends absorption of Cafcass

Minister announces foster care support for councils

Cafcass chief wary over recent fall in care applications

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