Search

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

| CYP Now

A greater emphasis must be placed on relationships for children in care rather than the type of placement option, an inquiry by eight charities has found.

Foster carer demand shows slight fall

News

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of foster carers needed to be recruited this year is slightly lower than in 2013 due to a slowdown in the number of children expected to be fostered, research suggests.

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

News

Friday, January 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Parenting support programmes significantly cut the risk of children developing behavioural problems and becoming offenders in adolescence and adulthood, a new study suggests.

Birmingham criticised for 'losing' disabled girl in the system

News

Thursday, March 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Birmingham City Council has been reprimanded for failing to assess a disabled girl's needs for more than four years.

Inspectors praise children's centre support at 'inadequate' council

News

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

| CYP Now

Effective use of children's centres to offer early support to vulnerable families is helping an "inadequate" council turn around its performance, Ofsted has found.

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

News

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils could save more than £32,000 for each troubled family they work with by providing services in a more effective way, a government report has claimed.

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

News

Friday, March 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

News

Thursday, April 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils will be handed powers to outsource a whole range of children's social care services including child protection under proposals announced by the government.

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

News

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Blackpool are improving but problems remain with support for care leavers and planning for looked-after children, inspectors have found.

DfE innovation project 'saves councils up to £2m a year'

News

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

| CYP Now

An early intervention project that received funding through the Department for Education's social care innovation programme saves councils up to £2.1m a year, an evaluation report has found.

Legal aid reforms will leave children exposed to domestic violence, campaigners warn

News

Monday, March 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Women and children will be placed in danger if planned changes to legal aid are rubberstamped, campaigners have warned.

Sixty per cent of families report serious conflict in the home

News

Monday, March 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Six out of 10 UK families with children experience serious or frequent conflict, according to a survey by 4Children.

Government to fast-track legislation for mandatory FGM reporting

News

Friday, January 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The government intends to change the law to make reporting suspected cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) mandatory prior to May's general election.

Labour 'to boost kinship care support'

News

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Labour wants to see more children at risk of being taken into care instead be given the chance to live with extended family members.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

News

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

Home Office unveils statutory FGM guidance

News

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.