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NCAS conference: Greening announces £11m for innovation projects

Friday, November 4, 2016

| CYP Now

A total of £11m will be handed to the three most successful projects to emerge from the Department for Education's Children's Social Care Innovation programme to allow them to expand, Education Secretary Justine Greening has said.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

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Monday, January 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Sweeping reform of the youth justice system is necessary to prevent hundreds of children being "needlessly" criminalised and sentenced to custody, according to a think-tank.

Social work leaders sceptical over call for more third-party provider input

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Social work and local government leaders have warned that government ambitions to allow independent sector providers to deliver children's social services must not be at the expense of councils losing their statutory powers.

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.

No evidence of Home Office abuse cover up, inquiry finds

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

| CYP Now

A review led by NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless has found no evidence that Home Office officials covered up allegations of child sexual abuse over a 20-year period.

Wilful neglect laws for children's professionals unlikely before 2017

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Laws to prosecute children's professionals for wilful neglect in failing to protect young people from child sexual exploitation are unlikely to be in place for another two years.

Better safeguarding work leads to fall in violent injuries

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Improved child protection procedures have contributed to a large fall in the number of violent injuries against children and young people over the last year, a leading research academic has said.

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.

Government action needs more money to succeed, warn children's leaders

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services chiefs have warned that government plans to intervene earlier in poorly performing councils will need extra funding in order to work.

Rotherham: No action against council leaders over CSE failings

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Thursday, September 7, 2017

| CYP Now

No action should be taken against the former leaders of Rotherham children's services despite organisational failings in addressing child sexual exploitation (CSE), an investigation has concluded.

Call for all councils to receive children's services innovation funding

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Monday, June 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Local government leaders are calling on ministers to hand over a slice of £300m of innovation funding to help all councils improve services for vulnerable children.

Rotherham DCS told to quit by parliamentary committee

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| CYP Now

The chair of the home affairs committee has called for the director of children's services (DCS) at Rotherham Council Joyce Thacker to resign in the wake of the child sexual exploitation (CSE) scandal.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Emphasis on support under new children's home standards

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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.

Children's centres funding cut by £400m in three years

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Friday, September 26, 2014

| CYP Now

Spending on children's centres and early years services has been slashed by more than £400m in the space of just three years, government figures show.

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Somerset County Council has announced it has terminated the contract of the interim director of children's services (DCS) for failing to deliver improvements at the struggling authority quickly enough.

Rotherham children's services rated 'inadequate'

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services at Rotherham Borough Council have been rated "inadequate" after Ofsted found a string of child protection management and practice failings.

Council at centre of CSE scandal gets innovation cash

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

The government has awarded £3.8m of Children's Social Care Innovation Fund money to four projects involved in supporting victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE).

GPs need to improve knowledge of FGM, say MPs

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Saturday, March 14, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs have criticised GPs and other health professionals for failing to report cases of female genital mutilation (FGM).

Almost a third of councils get innovation funding

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Monday, March 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Nearly a third of local authorities have been handed £60m to test new ways to improve children's social care, according to latest government figures.

Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died

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Friday, November 27, 2015

| CYP Now

A children's services department that was providing support for three vulnerable children who died in the space of a month has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Kent County Council is holding discussions about the possibility of outsourcing elements of its children's social care work in order to help deal with an influx of asylum-seeking children, it has emerged.

Government launches specialist CSE response unit

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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

| CYP Now

A service providing specialist advice and support to children's professionals tackling child sexual exploitation (CSE) incidents is to be launched by the government later this month.

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NCAS conference: Greening announces £11m for innovation projects

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

Social work leaders sceptical over call for more third-party provider input

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

No evidence of Home Office abuse cover up, inquiry finds

Wilful neglect laws for children's professionals unlikely before 2017

Better safeguarding work leads to fall in violent injuries

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

Government action needs more money to succeed, warn children's leaders

Rotherham: No action against council leaders over CSE failings

Call for all councils to receive children's services innovation funding

Rotherham DCS told to quit by parliamentary committee

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Emphasis on support under new children's home standards

Children's centres funding cut by £400m in three years

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

Rotherham children's services rated 'inadequate'

Council at centre of CSE scandal gets innovation cash

GPs need to improve knowledge of FGM, say MPs

Almost a third of councils get innovation funding

Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

Government launches specialist CSE response unit

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