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No quick fixes in turning around children's services
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
Management standards, specifically how to deal with inadequate leadership, were very much in the news at the end of December.
Councils spell out impact of further cuts for children in 2015/16
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
The Local Government Association's submission to the forthcoming spending review pulls no punches in outlining the devastating impact further cuts to budgets would have on children's services
Stubborn adversaries will let children down
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
There is so much dialogue between parties who either deliberately don't listen to each other or are genuinely hard of hearing. My job takes me across all policy areas and I witness it everywhere.
Children's centres and youth sector hit, but care services escape cuts
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
Local authorities focus on preserving child protection and looked-after children budgets at the expense of Sure Start children's centres, services for young people and youth justice work, statistics on council spending reveal
Children need a long-term plan in this spending abyss
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- Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | CYP Now
The country might be out of recession (again), but with the size of the deficit still enormous, public spending shows no sign of returning to growth. In our special report, we examine the long-term challenges and consequences of children's services spend continuing to fall during this decade.
Daily roundup: University admissions imbalance, families unaware of benefit changes, and low teacher morale
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- Thursday, January 3, 2013 | CYP Now
The universities minister has called on higher education institutions to tackle low attainment among white, working class males; more than 300,000 families are unaware of changes to the child benefit system according to the Telegraph; and the NUT finds more than half of teachers are suffering low morale, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: School safeguarding, children's services and child injuries
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- Friday, April 11, 2014 | CYP Now
Gove highlights FGM risk in letter to school head teachers; Coventry councillors work together to improve children's services; and Nottinghamshire councils develop plan to cut child injuries, all in the news today.
Ask the Experts: Deter young people from drugs
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- Monday, September 1, 2014 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on "legal highs", saving money while safeguarding, partnership working concerns and coping with hot weather.
Ask the Experts: Buying condoms is not your job
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- Monday, October 13, 2014 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on condom distribution, writing a vision statement, being turned down for promotion and nursery staff contracts.
Young people with SEN deserve support when leaving school
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- Tuesday, December 17, 2013 | CYP Now
As the end of the year approaches, it is usual for many of us to think about our futures; to review where we are in life and think what we hope to achieve in the year ahead.
Daily roundup: Careers guidance, council cuts, and smoking
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- Thursday, January 30, 2014 | CYP Now
Call for government to extend National Careers Service; research shows cuts affecting deprived areas more; and Lords back bid to ban smoking in cars, all in the news today.
A provocative president
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- Monday, March 31, 2014 | CYP Now
Neil Puffett meets Alan Wood, the new president of the ADCS.
Daily roundup: Free schools approved, child health contract in Devon and concern for Lancashire primary schools
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- Friday, July 13, 2012 | CYP Now
The next wave of free schools, a contract for children's health services in Devon, and concerns over primary school standards in Lancashire, are all in the news today.
Let's be ready to answer for our children's rights record
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- Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | CYP Now
Children's commissioner for England Maggie Atkinson looks ahead as the UNCRC marks its Silver Jubilee.
Independent voice a must for commissioner Anne Longfield
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- Tuesday, November 25, 2014 | CYP Now
The next children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield must stand up to the government if she is to champion the rights of children and young people and allay concerns over the role's independence.
Recruitment in children's services: trends and challenges
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- Tuesday, March 17, 2015 | CYP Now
Funding cuts coupled with increased demand for services are intensifying the recruitment challenges for children's services employers. Joe Lepper explores the trends across the children's workforce.
Child safeguarding: leaders' debate
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
Children's services leaders from councils across England discussed the current challenges of safeguarding children at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with 4Children. Ravi Chandiramani reports
Social care in the UK must widen its outlook to be more resourceful
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
Services in the UK have plenty to learn from poorer countries, argues Chris Hanvey
Daily roundup: multi-agency inspections, safeguarding in Kingston and poverty target concerns
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- Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | CYP Now
Ofsted's multi-agency inspection plans, an apology from Kingston Council over safeguarding standards, and claims the child poverty target is unachievable, all make the headlines today.
Daily round up: College of Social Work row, competitive sports and the link between weight gain and psychosis
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- Monday, October 1, 2012 | CYP Now
The row over the future of social work representation re-ignites, a report calls for less emphasis on competitive sports, and tackling obesity among young people with mental illness, all in the news today.
Councils to tackle oversight gap
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- Monday, August 4, 2014 | CYP Now
The "Islamist schools plot" in Birmingham highlights the need for councils to closely monitor academies, say experts.
Working Together to Safeguard Children: key revisions explained
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- Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | CYP Now
It has been two years in the making, but the revised Working Together guidance has finally been published. The new, streamlined version contains crucial information for all those with a role in safeguarding children
Election 2015: Party Policy Guide
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- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | CYP Now
Derren Hayes has trawled the manifestos to provide the definitive guide to what the main parliamentary parties are pledging on key issues for children, young people and families.
Innovation and collaboration lands tri-borough ‘outstanding' ratings
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | CYP Now
A new social work practice model, low caseloads and joined-up services have helped two of the three councils in a merged children's services department become the first to be judged "outstanding" by Ofsted's inspection system.
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