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Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

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.

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's consultation over allowing councils to delegate children's social care services to third parties was insufficient and needs further debate, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on child protection has said.

ADCS urges safeguarding agencies to learn lessons from Rotherham

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders have said the Rotherham child sexual abuse inquiry report should be a "call to action" for all organisations and professionals working in child protection.

Birmingham children's chief: 'Fair social worker caseloads are my priority'

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Thursday, October 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Birmingham's children's services chief has vowed to protect the caseloads of social workers despite high staff vacancy rates across the struggling children's services department.

Daily roundup: School sports, tooth decay and academies

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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.

Councils call for national outcomes framework for looked-after children

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Monday, November 24, 2014

| CYP Now

A national outcomes framework should be developed as one of a range of measures to improve services for looked-after children and those with greatest needs, a report has found.

ADCS president-elect warns cuts could increase demand for care

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Local authorities may no longer be able to protect children's services from the worst of funding cuts over the coming year, the next president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has warned.

Give councils powers to issue banning orders to tackle CSE, says LGA

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Friday, March 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Councils should be given powers to tackle suspected sexual predators with child sexual exploitation (CSE) disruption orders, according to the Local Government Association (LGA).

ADCS president O'Sullivan to champion Staying Put extension

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

| CYP Now

The new president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has vowed to make the extension of support rights for children in residential care a key goal of her time in office.

'No quick fixes for children's social care', warn experts

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

| CYP Now

Children's social care experts have warned that it could take many years to turn around struggling children's services departments.

DfE sanctions urgent probe into children's services spending

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Friday, August 14, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) has ordered a study into the spending habits of local authority children's services departments ahead of expected central government cuts being announced in November.

NCAS conference: Call for madrassas to be regulated

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Unofficial Islamic schools must be regulated in order for councils to be able to effectively prevent young people being radicalised, a director of children's services has said.

Government threatens to force councils to take on asylum-seeking children

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Government is considering forcing local authorities to take on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in order to ease pressure on Kent County Council, it has emerged.

Ofsted praises children's services in London bi-borough councils

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Friday, August 31, 2018

| CYP Now

Standards at two London councils have been praised by Ofsted inspectors in the wake of an acrimonious split from partnership arrangements with a third council.

‘Decision fatigue' blights social work practice

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Monday, April 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's social workers avoid making decisions later in the working day due to mental exhaustion, an analysis of child protection practitioners' behaviour has shown.

Exclusive: Analysis links director of children's services retention to Ofsted rating

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities that keep hold of their directors of children's services (DCS) perform better in Ofsted inspections than those that change regularly, exclusive analysis by CYP Now has found.

Quality of serious case reviews blasted by independent panel

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Friday, August 1, 2014

| CYP Now

The quality of child death reviews are "disturbingly variable" with far too many failing to find out what went wrong, a damning report by a government appointed panel has found.

Council becomes third to receive 'outstanding' Ofsted grade for children's services

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Monday, September 4, 2017

| CYP Now

A social enterprise established to support and house care leavers has helped North Lincolnshire Council become the third local authority to achieve an "outstanding" rating from Ofsted.

IT and caseload problems harming social work, inquiry finds

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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

| CYP Now

"Unwieldy" IT systems, "unmanageable" caseloads and "constant" financial pressures are resulting in child protection social workers having to regularly cut corners to keep pace with the demands of the job, a report by MPs has found.

Council approves creation of independent children's trust

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Slough Council has rubber-stamped the creation of an independent trust to run its children's services after a dispute over the funding of the initiative was partly resolved.

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Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

ADCS urges safeguarding agencies to learn lessons from Rotherham

Birmingham children's chief: 'Fair social worker caseloads are my priority'

Daily roundup: School sports, tooth decay and academies

Councils call for national outcomes framework for looked-after children

ADCS president-elect warns cuts could increase demand for care

Give councils powers to issue banning orders to tackle CSE, says LGA

ADCS president O'Sullivan to champion Staying Put extension

'No quick fixes for children's social care', warn experts

DfE sanctions urgent probe into children's services spending

NCAS conference: Call for madrassas to be regulated

Government threatens to force councils to take on asylum-seeking children

Ofsted praises children's services in London bi-borough councils

‘Decision fatigue' blights social work practice

Exclusive: Analysis links director of children's services retention to Ofsted rating

Quality of serious case reviews blasted by independent panel

Council becomes third to receive 'outstanding' Ofsted grade for children's services

IT and caseload problems harming social work, inquiry finds

Council approves creation of independent children's trust

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