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UK Youth announces new chief executive

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

| CYP Now

UK Youth has announced that Anna Smee is to become its new chief executive.

ADCS president calls for greater council oversight of academy funding

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Giving local authorities powers to monitor how academy schools spend money would ensure they better served the interests of vulnerable children, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services has said.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation

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Friday, September 12, 2014

| CYP Now

A group of local authorities will face Ofsted inspections on the way they deal with child sexual exploitation (CSE) in a bid to ensure services are up to scratch in the wake of the Rotherham scandal, CYP Now can reveal.

Rotherham DCS calls for child sexual exploitation training reforms

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Child sexual exploitation (CSE) training should be part of university social work courses, the director of children's services (DCS) for Rotherham has said.

BYC calls for dedicated youth minister

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

| CYP Now

The British Youth Council (BYC) is to campaign for the introduction of a dedicated youth minister.

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Blackpool are improving but problems remain with support for care leavers and planning for looked-after children, inspectors have found.

London lord mayor Fiona Woolf to lead child sexual abuse inquiry

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Friday, September 5, 2014

| CYP Now

The current lord mayor of London Fiona Woolf will lead an independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse, the government has announced.

Councils 'need time' to deliver SEN reforms

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Friday, September 5, 2014

| CYP Now

The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) has called for local authorities to be given time to fully implement the special education needs and disability (SEND) reforms.

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly 500 children in Manchester were potentially left at risk because social work assessments were not carried out quickly enough, a report that has rated the city's children's services as "inadequate", has found.

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

| CYP Now

It is now one week since an independent report by Professor Alexis Jay estimated that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. CYP Now looks at what has happened since publication last Tuesday.