Search Results

Found 144 results for .

Shadow minister wants youth justice shake-up

    News
  • Thursday, September 26, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Labour's youth justice minister has called for sweeping changes to the way young offenders are dealt with, suggesting that anything that does not work should be ditched.

Daily roundup: housing benefit, Hamzah Khan and Colin Green

    News
  • Thursday, September 19, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Third of council tenants fall behind with rent since 'bedroom tax' introduced; body of four-year-old Hamzah Khan left in a house for two years, court told; and former Coventry DCS Colin Green joins Tower Hamlets safeguarding children's board, all in the news today.

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

    News
  • 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.

Government announces overhaul of child protection procedures

    News
  • 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.

Current filters