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Daily roundup: Care applications data, sex offenders' register and age of consent

Thursday, May 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Care applications up 70 per cent; changes to sex offenders' register rules condemned, and barrister's age of consent comments dismissed as "outdated", all in the news today.

Councils give backing to care leavers' charter

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Thursday, July 11, 2013

| CYP Now

More than two-thirds of councils have signed up to the government's care leavers' charter, care minister Edward Timpson has said.

Reforms will not prevent use of children's homes as 'last resort', say providers

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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's care providers are set to tell the government its proposed overhaul of residential care will do nothing to prevent children's homes being used as a last resort.

Councils face £25,000 per child shortfall under refugee scheme

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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

| CYP Now

Councils involved in a Home Office scheme to take in unaccompanied asylum seeking children from other areas are facing an average £25,000 shortfall in funding for every child they support, research suggests.

Birmingham children's home closure proposals 'will save £3m'

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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

| CYP Now

Birmingham Council is planning to close five of its 17 children's homes with a view to saving £3m by increasing the use of foster care and adoption.

Inspectors find signs of progress at 'inadequate' council

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

| CYP Now

A council rated as 'inadequate' by Ofsted and subsequently criticised for its slow pace of progress is beginning to show signs of improvement, inspectors have said.

Experts urge training drive to boost mental health support for children in care

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Monday, November 6, 2017

| CYP Now

All carers and professionals who work directly with looked-after children should receive mental health training as part of a range of efforts to boost support for them, a government-appointed group of experts has recommended.

Children in residential care must be listened to, MPs told

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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.

Extend Staying Put rights to children's homes, say MPs

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Staying Put legislation should be extended into children's homes as part of sweeping changes needed to improve post-16 support for looked-after young people, MPs have said.

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Daily roundup: Care applications data, sex offenders' register and age of consent

Councils give backing to care leavers' charter

Reforms will not prevent use of children's homes as 'last resort', say providers

Councils face £25,000 per child shortfall under refugee scheme

Birmingham children's home closure proposals 'will save £3m'

Inspectors find signs of progress at 'inadequate' council

Experts urge training drive to boost mental health support for children in care

Children in residential care must be listened to, MPs told

Children's home risk assessment plans delayed

Extend Staying Put rights to children's homes, say MPs

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