Search

Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

| CYP Now

Amid constant reforms and challenges, Charlotte Goddard identifies entry-level requirements and ongoing professional development for key roles across the children and young people's workforce.

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

News

Monday, June 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Charities working with children and young people have lost more than £150m of government funding in the past year, it has emerged.

Children's homes providers demand scrapping of new quality standards

News

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

| CYP Now

New quality standards for children's homes should be scrapped by the next government, an organisation representing residential care providers has said.

Professionals who fail to act on CSE face five-year jail term

News

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's social workers, teachers and local councillors will face up to five years in jail for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

News

Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities have been ordered to undertake an audit of how they respond to child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal.

Emphasis on support under new children's home standards

News

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.

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

News

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

| CYP Now

It is now one week since an independent report by Professor Alexis Jay estimated that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. CYP Now looks at what has happened since publication last Tuesday.

Child protection IT system set for launch

News

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

| CYP Now

An IT system that will help child protection and health professionals share information about children at risk of abuse and neglect will launch imminently, the Department of Health (DH) has confirmed.

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

News

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

| CYP Now

A new director of children's services has been appointed by Birmingham City Council to turn around the troubled department.

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

News

Friday, July 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Numbers of pupils to top eight million by 2023; London mayor launches drive to tackle child obesity; and school extremism report leaked, all in the news today.

Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

News

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities must do more to prevent the deaths of more than 60 children each year from preventable accidents, a report has found.

One in six authorities to face multi-agency inspections

News

Monday, June 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Up to 25 local authorities will be judged on their multi-agency child protection arrangements under new inspections being introduced in April 2015, it has been announced.

Social work leaders demand extension to outsourcing consultation

News

Friday, May 30, 2014

| CYP Now

The College of Social Work (TCSW) has called for a government consultation on controversial plans to outsource child protection services to be extended.

Daily roundup: Mental health, education and inspections

News

Friday, May 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Self-esteem damaged by overuse of the internet; schools accused of extremism could be converted to academies; and Ofsted criticises Nottingham Safeguarding Children Board, all in the news today.

Campaigners call for end to B&B use for care leavers

News

Friday, May 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities should be banned from using bed and breakfasts to house young care leavers, while post-care accommodation should be regulated by Ofsted, MPs have been told.

School safeguarding, mental health, and healthy living

News

Friday, March 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Coventry schools to have safeguarding checks; trust defends offering counselling in cafes; and smoking bans deliver child health benefits, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Teacher-pupil relationships, council services and children's centres

News

Thursday, January 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils divulge details of teacher relationship claims; government orders action at Norfolk children's services; and Essex children's centres' opening hours to be cut, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

News

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.

Professionals 'collectively failed' to protect Keanu Williams

News

Thursday, October 3, 2013

| CYP Now

A two-year-old boy from Birmingham was beaten to death by his mother after professionals "missed a significant number of opportunities" to intervene, a serious case review has found.

Daily roundup: School sports, tooth decay and academies

News

Monday, March 18, 2013

| CYP Now

£150m for primary school sport, 41 per cent of children in Wales suffer tooth decay by five, and concerns over cost of academies in Birmingham, all in the news today.

Search Results

Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

Children's homes providers demand scrapping of new quality standards

Professionals who fail to act on CSE face five-year jail term

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

Emphasis on support under new children's home standards

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

Child protection IT system set for launch

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

One in six authorities to face multi-agency inspections

Social work leaders demand extension to outsourcing consultation

Daily roundup: Mental health, education and inspections

Campaigners call for end to B&B use for care leavers

School safeguarding, mental health, and healthy living

Daily roundup: Teacher-pupil relationships, council services and children's centres

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

Professionals 'collectively failed' to protect Keanu Williams

Daily roundup: School sports, tooth decay and academies

Current filters

Filter by

Journals

Article Types

Tags