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Troubled Families programme on course to miss targets

Friday, April 4, 2014

| CYP Now

The government will miss its target to turn around the lives of 120,000 "troubled families" unless it speeds up the rate of success, a group of MPs has warned.

Performance-related payments ‘too risky' for charities, analysis warns

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Public sector payment methods that link funding to performance outcomes are putting off many charities from bidding to deliver government programmes, research by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has found.

Young homeless people suffer increased mental and physical health problems

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

| CYP Now

Young homeless people are twice as likely to suffer depression, and more than four times as likely to have been admitted to hospital for a health problem than their non-homeless peers, research has found.

NCB estimates cuts of up to £405m for children's charities

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

| CYP Now

Children and young people's charities face funding cuts of almost £405m over the five years up to 2015/16, the National Children's Bureau (NCB) has estimated.

Hospital youth work scheme set for London-wide expansion

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

| CYP Now

An award-winning service that places specialist youth workers in hospital emergency departments in an effort to tackle gang violence is to be expanded across London.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

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

Annual average child spend revealed

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Monday, January 25, 2010

| CYP Now

Unitary authorities in England have budgeted to spend an average of 3,280 per child this year, new figures reveal.

Children's workers to pay fee for safeguarding register

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

| CYP Now

Professionals working with children and young people are to be hit with a fee of 64 to join the government's safeguarding register.

Nottingham UK's first 'Early Intervention City'

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Monday, April 28, 2008

| CYP Now

Nottingham has become the UK's first 'Early Intervention City', with the launch of a raft of programmes designed to improve the life chances of its poorest children and stop them drifting into crime.

Review calls for early mental health diagnosis

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Thursday, April 30, 2009

| CYP Now

Criminal justice system fails to diagnose too many children

Frank drugs campaign branded a waste of money

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

| CYP Now

The government's Frank campaign to reduce drug abuse among young people has been condemned as a failure in a hard-hitting report by the think-tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).

Ofsted slams Cornwall's 'inadequate' children's services

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Friday, October 23, 2009

| CYP Now

Ofsted has published a damning report into safeguarding and looked-after children's services in Cornwall.

NSPCC launches online toolkit on children's rights

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

| CYP Now

The NSPCC has released an online training toolkit to help children's professionals to uphold children's rights.

CYP Now Awards entry deadline extended

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

| CYP Now

The deadline to enter the 2009 CYP Now Awards has been extended by three weeks, to 31 July.

Split youth and adult drug services, concludes review

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Support for young people with drug problems in Brighton & Hove needs to be overhauled, the city's Independent Drugs Commission has concluded.

Big increase in suicides among vulnerable children known to social services

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Thursday, October 25, 2018

| CYP Now

The number of suicides among children who are either in care or are known to social services as being at risk of abuse or neglect has increased by more than 30 per cent in the last year, it has emerged.

National standards will improve children's hearing system, says chief

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

| CYP Now

The head of the new body overseeing Scotland's hearing system believes the introduction of more consistent training and practice standards for lay assessors will improve the service that vulnerable children and young people receive.

Early Intervention Foundation unveils test sites

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

| CYP Now

The 20 English areas to become test beds for shaping police, health and social care services around early intervention work have been announced.

Troubled families scheme 'must extend beyond 2015'

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

| CYP Now

The government should expand the eligibility criteria for the troubled families programme and extend the initiative beyond 2015, according to leaders at Westminster Council.

Tell us about your achievements: enter the 2018 Children & Young People Now Awards

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| CYP Now

The 2018 Children & Young People Now Awards are open for entries to organisations, individuals and teams from across the UK.

CYP Now Awards 2011 shortlist published

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

| CYP Now

Entries for the 2011 Children & Young People Now Awards have been whittled down to create a shortlist in each of the 20 categories.

Children's charities unimpressed by lobbying bill changes

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Monday, January 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Government concessions that water down proposed new restrictions on charities' campaigning work do not go far enough, children's voluntary sector figures have said.

Government advises against cell use for children with mental health problems

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has issued updated advice on crisis mental health care that states police cells should never be used to hold children and young people.

Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Central government must urgently consult local authorities on how new "social value" laws could impact on children's services, it has been has warned.

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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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.

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Troubled Families programme on course to miss targets

Performance-related payments ‘too risky' for charities, analysis warns

Young homeless people suffer increased mental and physical health problems

NCB estimates cuts of up to £405m for children's charities

Hospital youth work scheme set for London-wide expansion

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Annual average child spend revealed

Children's workers to pay fee for safeguarding register

Nottingham UK's first 'Early Intervention City'

Review calls for early mental health diagnosis

Frank drugs campaign branded a waste of money

Ofsted slams Cornwall's 'inadequate' children's services

NSPCC launches online toolkit on children's rights

CYP Now Awards entry deadline extended

Split youth and adult drug services, concludes review

Big increase in suicides among vulnerable children known to social services

National standards will improve children's hearing system, says chief

Early Intervention Foundation unveils test sites

Troubled families scheme 'must extend beyond 2015'

Tell us about your achievements: enter the 2018 Children & Young People Now Awards

CYP Now Awards 2011 shortlist published

Children's charities unimpressed by lobbying bill changes

Government advises against cell use for children with mental health problems

Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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