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Somerset row shows DCSs need greater authority
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- Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | CYP Now
It is rare for the sacking of a director of children's services (DCS) to be played out in public, but that has been the case in Somerset over the past week.
Children England’s demise highlights failing ‘market’
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- Thursday, September 21, 2023 | CYP Now
Following the collapse in 2016 of children’s charity 4Children, Kathy Evans, chief executive of Children England warned that “the serious financial fragility of the children’s services ‘marketplace’ is a very real and urgent problem for large and small organisations alike”.
The toughest job in the land just got tougher
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- Monday, July 20, 2015 | CYP Now
If you are looking for evidence of just how tough a job it is to be a director of children's services (DCS) at the moment, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) conference provided it.
Councils can help refugee children if properly backed
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- Tuesday, November 8, 2016 | CYP Now
The closure and destruction of the Calais "jungle" refugee camp has spared its estimated 5,000 inhabitants another freezing winter living in tents and mud.
Child sexual exploitation victims must be heard
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- Monday, May 14, 2012 | CYP Now
Child sexual exploitation is often described as one of the great "hidden" scourges in society. But it was propelled into the spotlight in all its sickening brutality last week after nine men from Rochdale and Oldham were sentenced to jail, having plied vulnerable girls with drugs and alcohol and passed ?them around for sex.
Councils must build on youth housing solutions
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- Monday, May 26, 2014 | CYP Now
The 10 per cent rise in house prices in England reported last week was widely seen as another sign that the economy is recovering from the deepest recession in living memory. Good news for home owners certainly, but soaring property prices are making it harder for young people to not just get on the housing ladder, but branch out into independent living generally.
Residential trips are a priceless commodity
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- Monday, August 4, 2014 | CYP Now
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. It is a maxim that could be applied to most of the services for children and young people today - being able to do more with less is a key requirement for any chief executive, middle manager or frontline practitioner.
Quality and speed of care proceedings is paramount
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- Monday, April 13, 2015 | CYP Now
Over the past four years, the average length of care proceedings in the family court system has plummeted from 56 weeks to just over 28 weeks.
Election result should provide policy clarity
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- Monday, May 11, 2015 | CYP Now
The general election result looks set to be a defining one.
Councils alone cannot tackle child health issues
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- Monday, September 14, 2015 | CYP Now
We've come a long way on improving the health of young children since the turn of the millennium.
Doncaster experiment is sure to yield lessons
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- Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | CYP Now
Education Secretary Michael Gove's decision to remove Doncaster Council's powers to provide children's social care is a landmark move.
Cuts spell the end of early intervention as we know it
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- Monday, October 15, 2012 | CYP Now
The proposed removal of the Early Intervention Grant to local authorities might not attract the same level of attention as other headline-grabbing plans, such as the abolition of housing benefit for under-25s, but it is without doubt one of the scandals of the year - the policy itself and the way it was (not) communicated.
Youth sector needs help to realise its true value
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- Tuesday, November 27, 2012 | CYP Now
In this prolonged era of spending cuts, services that promote young people's personal and social development - provided by youth workers and others - have suffered among the deepest.
Youth work must tap into education policy spine
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- Tuesday, November 12, 2013 | CYP Now
The admission by minister for civil society Nick Hurd that he is still unsure where council-led youth work fits into the government's future vision for the sector is not the most surprising of revelations.
Where is the long-term plan on job Šcreation?
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- Monday, March 31, 2014 | CYP Now
At an event in parliament last week, young people and MPs gathered to discuss the challenge of youth unemployment. Organised by youth initiative the 99% Campaign, the panel concluded that unless speedy solutions are found to help the near one million young people not in education, employment or training (Neet), the problem could blight a generation for decades.
Editorial: Strong police presence is vital to safer schools
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- Monday, September 1, 2014 | CYP Now
CYP Now's investigation into school safety reveals some worrying trends in terms of the reduction in police presence in schools. A third of police forces have cut the number of PCs and community support officers based in schools over the past two years, while overall numbers of officers dedicated to this type of work has also fallen over the same period.
Innovation funding should help ‘inadequate' councils
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | CYP Now
In early 2014, the tri-borough councils in London became one of the first areas to benefit from the Department for Education's £100m, two-year Children's Social Care Innovation Fund.
A fair fee is critical to free childcare expansion
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- Monday, October 12, 2015 | CYP Now
The past few weeks have seen mixed messages coming from the government over the expansion of the free childcare policy.
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