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Half of early support psychosis services see funding cut

Thursday, March 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Half of early intervention services for young people with mental health problems have seen funding, staffing and quality fall over the past year, according to a report published today.

Daily roundup: Obesity, child protection and mental health

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Friday, February 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Morbidly obese children taken into care; Northamptonshire struggles with unnecessary safeguarding referrals; and bullying is main cause of self-harm study finds, all in the news today.

Government advises against cell use for children with mental health problems

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has issued updated advice on crisis mental health care that states police cells should never be used to hold children and young people.

Daily roundup: School inspections, child protection and mental health

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

| CYP Now

Minister calls for Ofsted to inspect academy chains; serious case review finds health services missed chances to refer baby to social workers; and new standards for managing anxiety published, all in the news today.

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

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Friday, January 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Parenting support programmes significantly cut the risk of children developing behavioural problems and becoming offenders in adolescence and adulthood, a new study suggests.

Call for better child sexual exploitation training for health workers

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Professionals in health services must receive better training to identify and help victims of child sexual exploitation, a government-commissioned report has concluded.

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

| CYP Now

There is an "unhelpful" misperception among the media and public about the nature of out-of-authority placements for looked-after children, council care managers have said.

Councils 'overlook' children's mental health needs

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Two-thirds of local authorities and health commissioners are failing to properly measure the needs of children and young people with mental health problems.

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

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Monday, December 2, 2013

| CYP Now

MP pledges to raise case of Italian woman whose child was taken at birth; more children being treated for eating disorders; and Labour seeks to strengthen law around underage smoking, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: youth unemployment, benefit cap, and mental health

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Government advisers brand Youth Contract a failure; benefit cap not helping struggling households into work research finds; and child mental health survey needs to be reinstated, say psychiatrists, all in the news today.

Shadow minister wants youth justice shake-up

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

| CYP Now

Labour's youth justice minister has called for sweeping changes to the way young offenders are dealt with, suggesting that anything that does not work should be ditched.

Nice urges help for families of autistic children

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Health and social services should identify the support needs of siblings and parents of children on the autism spectrum, according to new guidance.

Youth advice charity steps in to safeguard teenagers

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people's advice charity Youth Access has launched a project to safeguard teenagers across England at risk of neglect and abuse - a group it believes is being let down by statutory services.

Council offers support to those affected by April Jones case

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Monday, June 3, 2013

| CYP Now

Powys County Council in Wales has set up a specialist multi-agency support service for the Machynlleth community and all those affected by the murder of five-year-old April Jones.

Girls in gangs ‘face greater mental health risks'

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Girls with links to gangs are the most vulnerable group in the youth justice system, a study has found.

Charity launches campaign to counter rise in self-poisoning

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

| CYP Now

A campaign to educate young people to help friends who self-harm has been launched after figures revealed the number of people self-poisoning has soared by more than 40 per cent in a decade.

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

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Friday, March 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Self-harm; Manchester serious case review; and redundancies at the DfE

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Friday, March 1, 2013

| CYP Now

Charities claim the number of children self-harming is on the rise, a serious case review into the death of a four-year-old let down by seven agencies, and a warning over unfair dismissal claims at the DfE, all in the news today.

Charity seeks action on rise in school runaways

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Monday, December 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Schools and local authorities must become more alert to signs of children who are at risk of running away from home, a charity is urging, amid a worrying rise in referrals to its runaway services.

Health professionals must have '24-hour access to safeguarding advice'

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

| CYP Now

NHS staff in emergency care settings should be able to access child protection advice from a paediatrician with safeguarding expertise 24 hours a day, according to a new set of standards on minimum care requirements for children and young people.

Children in care struggle to talk about emotional needs

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Monday, February 13, 2012

| CYP Now

Looked-after children feel unable to talk to school staff about their emotional needs because of the stigma attached to being in care, a report by the youth mental health charity YoungMinds has warned.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

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Monday, January 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Sweeping reform of the youth justice system is necessary to prevent hundreds of children being "needlessly" criminalised and sentenced to custody, according to a think-tank.

Revised assessment to offer comprehensive picture of young offender needs

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Friday, November 11, 2011

| CYP Now

An assessment tool for young offenders that will forge closer links with health and children's services is set to be introduced to produce a fuller picture of the needs of children in the youth justice system.

Youth offending teams make progress on health services

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

| CYP Now

Health services provided by youth offending teams (YOTs) for children and young people are improving, a report has found.

Mental health of black and ethnic minority young people ignored, claims study

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

| CYP Now

The mental health of black and minority ethnic (BME) children and young people is being ignored by services including education, social care and youth justice, a report has claimed.

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Half of early support psychosis services see funding cut

Daily roundup: Obesity, child protection and mental health

Government advises against cell use for children with mental health problems

Daily roundup: School inspections, child protection and mental health

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

Call for better child sexual exploitation training for health workers

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

Councils 'overlook' children's mental health needs

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

Daily roundup: youth unemployment, benefit cap, and mental health

Shadow minister wants youth justice shake-up

Nice urges help for families of autistic children

Youth advice charity steps in to safeguard teenagers

Council offers support to those affected by April Jones case

Girls in gangs ‘face greater mental health risks'

Charity launches campaign to counter rise in self-poisoning

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

Daily roundup: Self-harm; Manchester serious case review; and redundancies at the DfE

Charity seeks action on rise in school runaways

Health professionals must have '24-hour access to safeguarding advice'

Children in care struggle to talk about emotional needs

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

Revised assessment to offer comprehensive picture of young offender needs

Youth offending teams make progress on health services

Mental health of black and ethnic minority young people ignored, claims study

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