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Pelka report highlights practice and management failings

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  • Wednesday, February 5, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Poor social work practice and management combined with high caseloads at Coventry's children's services were factors in child protection systems failing to prevent the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka, a new review into his case has concluded.

One in three areas fail children with special needs

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  • Wednesday, October 18, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Councils and health organisations in around a third of areas are failing to effectively support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), analysis by Ofsted and health watchdog the Care Quality Commission has revealed.

Home Office unveils statutory FGM guidance

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  • Wednesday, July 22, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Statutory guidance for how children's social workers, doctors, police and teachers should deal with suspected cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been published by government as part of attempts to protect potential victims.

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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  • Wednesday, February 6, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect to be suffering from neglect, but up to 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, a report has warned.

Minister criticises Hamzah Khan review findings

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  • Wednesday, November 13, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Children's minister Edward Timpson has slammed a review into the death of toddler Hamzah Khan for failing to answer key questions about the case, claiming it contains "glaring absences".

DfE cuts to research evaluations spark concern

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  • Monday, February 28, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Education (DfE) has cut 7.5m from research projects evaluating everything from academy schools to services for disabled children, an investigation by the Radical Statistics Group has revealed.

Government announces overhaul of child protection procedures

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  • Tuesday, June 12, 2012
    • | CYP Now
National timescales for assessing children in need will be scrapped and guidance governing work with children drastically reduced, under the government's plans to overhaul procedures that it claims stifle the judgment of children's professionals.

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