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Fostering stocktake proposals 'place vulnerable children at risk'

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

| CYP Now

Proposals put forward as part of a government-commissioned review of the fostering system would place vulnerable children at risk, a professional association has warned.

Competition authority set to authorise £400m fostering merger

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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

| CYP Now

A major merger of fostering providers is set to be given the green light after regulators indicated they are happy with plans to sell on some elements of the business to other firms to avoid a monopoly.

Three councils receive 'good' ratings for children's services

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Friday, March 31, 2017

| CYP Now

Children's services at three councils have been rated as "good" following inspections by Ofsted.

Think-tank criticises councils over care support 'failings'

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Monday, January 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Local authorities need to "step up" the support they offer to looked-after children and care leavers, according to a report from social policy think-tank, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).

Adoptions by same-sex couples quadruple since law change

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of children adopted by same sex couples has risen four-fold since 2007, analysis by an adoption and fostering support group reveals.

Children's services in Leicester judged 'inadequate'

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Monday, March 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services in Leicester are "inadequate" and in urgent need of improvement, according to a damning inspection report by Ofsted.

Ofsted rates third council ‘inadequate' in space of week

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Monday, May 18, 2015

| CYP Now

West Berkshire Council has become the third local authority in the space of a week to have its children's services department rated "inadequate" after Ofsted inspectors found serious failures in services.

Tory council boss hits out at government over Ofsted grading

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The leader of a council where children's services were graded "inadequate" by Ofsted has blamed central government for falling standards.

Councils to receive £30m to speed up adoptions

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Monday, July 6, 2015

| CYP Now

The government is to give councils £30m to encourage them to place children with adoptive parents outside their area.

Increasing numbers of children 'at risk of abuse'

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Friday, October 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Numbers of children subject to child protection plans because they are deemed to be at risk of abuse are continuing to rise, government figures reveal.

Timpson reveals initial action to tackle children's services 'failures'

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has unveiled a raft of immediate actions the government will take to tackle poor standards across "failing" children's services departments.

'Inadequate councils need more time to improve', says LGA

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Government expectations that councils must improve failing children's services within six months to avoid outside intervention are unrealistic, local government and children's leaders have warned.

Ofsted tells two councils to improve children's services

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

| CYP Now

Two councils have been told to improve standards within their children's services departments following inspections by Ofsted.

Early education profile pilot results raise questions over standards

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Just more than two fifths of five-year-olds assessed as part of a pilot for the government's revised early years curriculum have reached its ideal standard.

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Plans to improve teacher standards announced, positive response to "adoption party" pilots, and LGA call for council role in education, all in the news today.

"Rotherham council changed me," says Casey

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

The public sector needs "fundamental reform" regarding child protection, according to Louise Casey, lead inspector into the Rotherham council investigation.

Call to increase grammar school access for poorer children

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Grammar schools in one of the few counties to retain the selective education system are being called on to do more to improve access for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Peers slam 'rag-tag' social work plans

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

| CYP Now

Peers have branded proposed government reforms of children's social work and safeguarding services a "rag tag" set of plans that is so vague that it treats Parliament with contempt.

Health reforms 'ignore children in care'

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| CYP Now

The government's health reforms fail to recognise the needs of children in care and other vulnerable young people, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has warned.

Benefit changes 'will penalise foster carers'

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Monday, June 13, 2011

| CYP Now

Foster carers could lose up to 700 a year under plans to restrict housing benefit for social housing tenants with spare rooms, the National Housing Federation and the Fostering Network have warned.

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Fostering stocktake proposals 'place vulnerable children at risk'

Competition authority set to authorise £400m fostering merger

Three councils receive 'good' ratings for children's services

Think-tank criticises councils over care support 'failings'

Adoptions by same-sex couples quadruple since law change

Children's services in Leicester judged 'inadequate'

Ofsted rates third council ‘inadequate' in space of week

Tory council boss hits out at government over Ofsted grading

Councils to receive £30m to speed up adoptions

Increasing numbers of children 'at risk of abuse'

Timpson reveals initial action to tackle children's services 'failures'

'Inadequate councils need more time to improve', says LGA

Ofsted tells two councils to improve children's services

Early education profile pilot results raise questions over standards

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

"Rotherham council changed me," says Casey

Call to increase grammar school access for poorer children

Peers slam 'rag-tag' social work plans

Health reforms 'ignore children in care'

Benefit changes 'will penalise foster carers'

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