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Commissioning Children’s Social Care: Key policy developments

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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Faced with a 25 per cent rise in children in care over the past decade and funding levels that have failed to keep pace with this demand, some local authorities have struggled to ensure there are enough placements in their local area to meet the number and needs of children.

Children and Social Work Bill: main measures, key questions

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

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Sector leaders explain how proposals in the Children and Social Work Bill could affect care leavers, safeguarding and adoption services, as well as the impact they will have for social workers and councils.

Special Report: Attachment and Neglect

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

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The importance of strong attachments from early childhood - and of tackling the damage caused by neglect where these attachments are lacking - is seeing greater recognition in both policy and practice.

Government sets out blueprint to reverse decline in adoption

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

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Plans to reverse a fall in the number of children being adopted include changes to prioritise adoption over other forms of care, increased post-adoption support and speeding up the process of finding prospective adopters.

Relentless increase in children's care applications set to continue

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

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A record number of care applications were made in February, but experts differ over whether this is a sign of better child protection practice, the result of cuts to early help services or rising levels of poverty.

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.

Councils gear up to tackle needs of refugee children and families

Monday, October 12, 2015

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Local authorities and refugee charities are preparing to support the 20,000 Syrian refugees to be resettled in the UK, while a large rise in the number of unaccompanied children is already putting some councils under pressure.

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

Monday, September 28, 2015

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The Prime Minister highlighted children's social care as ripe for reform in a speech this month, with failing services handed to trusts or other providers to run. Children's services experts give their views on what this means for the years ahead

Review: Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering

Monday, September 14, 2015

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Children's charity closures prompt leaders to call for investigation

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

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The collapse of Kids Company and the British Association for Adoption & Fostering has raised questions over the charities' management. CYP Now assesses the factors behind the closures and what impact they will have.

Daily roundup: Haringey Ofsted, early intervention guidebook, and term-time holidays

Monday, July 21, 2014

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Haringey told to improve children's social care, major early intervention guide launched, and Nicky Morgan pledges to continue tough stance on term-time holidays, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Early years, adoption support and foster care

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

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Birmingham Council delays childcare business charter plans; post-adoption support tops Martin Narey's priority list; and "Staying Put" duty comes in, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Drug treatment, Doncaster children's services, and foster care

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

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Four-year-olds referred for drug and alcohol treatment; launch date for independent children's services trust in Doncaster delayed a month; and call for long-term foster care to be used more, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Children's services, leadership and child protection

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

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Hampshire children's services receive "good" Ofsted judgment; Salford DCS to become Solihull chief executive; and Bristol gets new child protection service, all in the news today.

Social reformer called into action

Monday, April 14, 2014

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Neil Puffett talks to Sir Tony Hawkhead, chief executive of Action for Children.

Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims

Thursday, February 13, 2014

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Wilshaw reveals he called for Ofsted chair to remain; leaving foster care age for young people in Wales raised; and £500,000 fund set up to help male victims of rape, all in the news today.

Councils need the means to deliver foster care support

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

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A little over two months ago, the Fostering Network called on the government to do the right thing - both morally and economically - by extending financial support to foster carers and in doing so enable children they care for to stay in the placement past their 18th birthday and up to 21 if they so wish.

Daily roundup: Adoption figures, Doncaster and anti-gay school rules

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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Adoptions increase at fastest rate for 15 years, Hackney DCS to lead Doncaster changes, and DfE to probe policies banning 'promotion' of homosexuality, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Children's homes, Birmingham DCS and school places

Friday, July 19, 2013

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Education committee launches inquiry into children's residential care, Birmingham's DCS leaves the council, and the government announces which schools will receive funding for new places, all in the news today.

Effective Working with Neglected Children and their Families: Linking Interventions to Long-term Outcomes

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

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Authors Elaine Farmer and Eleanor Lutman; Jessica Kingsley Publishers; ISBN 978-1-84905-288-7; £25; 240pp

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