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Children in residential care must be listened to, MPs told

Friday, November 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Proposed government reforms of the residential care system do not focus enough on listening to children, a group of MPs has been told.

Children's home risk assessment plans delayed

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

| CYP Now

Plans to risk assess proposed new children's homes to make sure young people are safe from criminals and abusers have been delayed, after concerns were raised about how it will work.

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's services chiefs are being called upon to share information about how their departments can deliver effective services while managing challenging budgets.

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has been handed new responsibilities for boosting the ‘character and resilience' of young people and tackling bullying, the Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed.

Inspectors slam South Yorkshire Police over safeguarding failures

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The police force criticised last year over its handling of child sexual exploitation (CSE) allegations in Rotherham is not doing enough to improve its child protection procedures, a report has found.

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating

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Monday, November 9, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has been given more time to turn services around in the wake of Ofsted judging its children's services department ‘inadequate' twice in two years.

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Police must be given greater discretion when dealing with children who share explicit pictures of themselves so that their future life chances are not harmed, a group of MPs and peers has said.

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

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Friday, January 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been criticised for denigrating foster care with comments she made as the government launched a bid to reverse a sharp drop in adoptions.

Government set to boost mental health services for children in care

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

| CYP Now

Support for children and young people in care who are experiencing mental health problems is set to be boosted after the government pledged to set out exactly what services they can expect to receive.

Children's home providers call for fee increases

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Placement fees paid by local authorities to children's homes providers must be increased if the sector is to cope with rising costs, it has been claimed.

Government 'ignoring children's social care crisis'

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

| CYP Now

Council leaders and children's campaigners have criticised the government for failing to tackle the "children's social care crisis" as part of its legislative programme for the new parliament.

Kent urges all councils to place looked-after children closer to home

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

| CYP Now

Kent County Council has made a plea to all local authorities to place children in care closer to home, after revealing that 1,267 children are placed in Kent from other parts of the country.

'I'm an emotional guy', says ADCS president after social worker slur

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Friday, July 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Association of Directors of Children's Services president Alan Wood has said he did not intend to cause offence when he referred to some social workers as "crap".

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.

Emphasis on support under new children's home standards

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Friday, September 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's homes will be required to show how they support young people and respond to their wishes as part of ongoing government efforts to improve standards.

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Somerset County Council has announced it has terminated the contract of the interim director of children's services (DCS) for failing to deliver improvements at the struggling authority quickly enough.

Government reveals more than 50,000 children's home 'missing incidents'

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

| CYP Now

Young people living in children's homes in England have been reported missing more than 50,000 times in the last three years - with the missing rate for individual children currently averaging nearly five times a year, it has emerged.

Troubled council to launch children's services trust in 2019

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

| CYP Now

A struggling council that a government report recommended be scrapped and replaced with two new unitary authorities is pushing ahead with plans to establish children's services to an independent trust in 12 months' time.

Birmingham unveils strategy to tackle children's services failings

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Thursday, December 12, 2013

| CYP Now

Birmingham Council has announced plans to work more closely with other agencies responsible for safeguarding children in a bid to improve services.

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Children in residential care must be listened to, MPs told

Children's home risk assessment plans delayed

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

Inspectors slam South Yorkshire Police over safeguarding failures

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

Government set to boost mental health services for children in care

Children's home providers call for fee increases

Government 'ignoring children's social care crisis'

Kent urges all councils to place looked-after children closer to home

'I'm an emotional guy', says ADCS president after social worker slur

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

Emphasis on support under new children's home standards

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

Government reveals more than 50,000 children's home 'missing incidents'

Troubled council to launch children's services trust in 2019

Birmingham unveils strategy to tackle children's services failings

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