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70 per cent; changes to sex offenders' register rules condemned, and barrister's age of consent comments dismissed as "outdated", all in the news today.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

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

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Friday, August 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has announced how much each council will receive this year to extend support up to age 21 for young people in foster care, but concerns remain that the money is not enough.

Ofsted gives councils 12-month deadline on adoptions

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Friday, February 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Local authorities will fail to secure an "outstanding" rating from Ofsted unless they place all children identified for adoption within 12 months.

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.

Intervention projects help to cut care figures, DfE research suggests

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Friday, October 21, 2011

| CYP Now

Areas with established family intervention projects are seeing fewer children taken into care, emerging research by the Department for Education (DfE) has suggested.

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

| CYP Now

More needs to be done to keep children in care out of the criminal justice system, the country's top police officer for children and young people has said.

Doncaster sees four-fold decrease in children missing from care

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of looked-after children that go missing from care in Doncaster has fallen nearly four-fold over the past year following the introduction of a dedicated support worker.

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.

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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

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

Ofsted gives councils 12-month deadline on adoptions

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Intervention projects help to cut care figures, DfE research suggests

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

Doncaster sees four-fold decrease in children missing from care

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

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