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Durham adopts training for professionals to spot CSE

Thursday, April 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Durham has become the first area in the country to adopt a US training initiative to help police officers and other professionals to better identify child sexual exploitation (CSE).

MPs criticise Ofsted and DfE for 'Trojan Horse' failings

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs have criticised Ofsted and the Department for Education (DfE) for their handling of the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham.

Inspectorate censures police for holding vulnerable children in cells

News

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Police forces have been criticised for placing vulnerable children in cells as a substitute for appropriate welfare provision.

Children's services joint inspections to begin in the autumn

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Friday, February 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Targeted multi-agency inspections of local authority children's services are to be introduced later this year.

Gang prevention work needs to start in primary school, say MPs

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Friday, February 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Urgent action is needed in schools to warn pupils as young as seven of the dangers of gang involvement, according to a report by MPs.

Whitehall unit to reform child protection systems under a Labour government

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Monday, February 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Labour will create a cross-government child protection unit to "revolutionise" safeguarding systems and practice if the party is elected in May.

Inspectorate slams children's court custody procedures in Surrey and Sussex

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

| CYP Now

The court custody system in Sussex and Surrey has been severely criticised by the prisons inspectorate for its treatment of child defendants.

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

| CYP Now

Nearly six months since professor Alexis Jay's report revealed the extent of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, the government's troubled families tsar Louise Casey's has pulled no punches in her assessment of how the authority has fared since.

Government to fast-track legislation for mandatory FGM reporting

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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.

Self-harm, restraint and assaults in youth custody hit five-year high

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth custody is becoming increasingly dangerous despite overall numbers being held dropping dramatically, official statistics show.

Rotherham chief Ian Thomas to discuss his plans to tackle CSE

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

| CYP Now

Rotherham's new director of children's services Ian Thomas is to deliver a keynote presentation on leading the effort to combat child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the wake of the Jay report, at a CYP Now Conference.

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

| CYP Now

More needs to be done to keep children in care out of the criminal justice system, the country's top police officer for children and young people has said.

Greater protection to be given to 17-year-olds in custody

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

| CYP Now

Young people aged 17 detained in police custody overnight are to be given the same rights as other under-18s following a last-minute legislation change.

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.

Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Youth workers should receive basic mental health training as part of a shake-up of services in order to support young people in gangs, MPs have been told.

Doncaster launches review into child sexual exploitation 'failings'

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

| CYP Now

A review has been launched into the way social services in Doncaster and South Yorkshire police deal with children at risk of child sexual exploitation (CSE), CYP Now can reveal.

Charity chief urges Prime Minister to create CSE national inquiry

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Charity 4Children is calling for a stand-alone national inquiry into the extent of child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal.

Rotherham: Twelve new abuse victims come forward

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Twelve more victims of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham have come forward since a damning report was published last week.

Exclusive: Number of police officers in schools declines amid safety concerns

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

| CYP Now

More than one in three police forces in England has cut back on numbers of officers based in schools since 2012, an investigation by CYP Now has revealed.

Rotherham: The key questions answered

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Friday, August 29, 2014

| CYP Now

The child abuse scandal in Rotherham has shocked the nation and dominated the news agenda for several days. Here, CYP Now looks at the background to the independent inquiry, what questions it has answered and what issues still need to be resolved.

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.

Warning over shortage of child sexual abuse officers in London

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Friday, July 25, 2014

| CYP Now

London needs more specialist police officers to investigate allegations of rape and sexual assault against children, a report has found.

MPs warn of FGM 'crisis'

News

Thursday, July 3, 2014

| CYP Now

A national action plan is urgently needed to tackle the "growing crisis" of female genital mutilation (FGM), MPs have said.

More than 1,000 under-10s searched by police

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

| CYP Now

More than 1,100 children under the age of criminal responsibility have been stopped and searched by police in the space of five years, it has emerged.

One in six authorities to face multi-agency inspections

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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.

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Durham adopts training for professionals to spot CSE

MPs criticise Ofsted and DfE for 'Trojan Horse' failings

Inspectorate censures police for holding vulnerable children in cells

Children's services joint inspections to begin in the autumn

Gang prevention work needs to start in primary school, say MPs

Whitehall unit to reform child protection systems under a Labour government

Inspectorate slams children's court custody procedures in Surrey and Sussex

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

Government to fast-track legislation for mandatory FGM reporting

Self-harm, restraint and assaults in youth custody hit five-year high

Rotherham chief Ian Thomas to discuss his plans to tackle CSE

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

Greater protection to be given to 17-year-olds in custody

No evidence of Home Office abuse cover up, inquiry finds

Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems

Doncaster launches review into child sexual exploitation 'failings'

Charity chief urges Prime Minister to create CSE national inquiry

Rotherham: Twelve new abuse victims come forward

Exclusive: Number of police officers in schools declines amid safety concerns

Rotherham: The key questions answered

ADCS urges safeguarding agencies to learn lessons from Rotherham

Warning over shortage of child sexual abuse officers in London

MPs warn of FGM 'crisis'

More than 1,000 under-10s searched by police

One in six authorities to face multi-agency inspections

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