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Integrated care service vital to help support troubled families

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  • Monday, August 4, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Integrated care is an idea with legs. It is gaining currency among the major political parties, as they realise that the segregation of health and social care, for example, leads to waste, duplication and gaps through which service users easily fall.

Doncaster's deliverer

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  • Monday, October 13, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Neil Puffett speaks to Paul Moffat, chief executive, Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2020
  • | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

Social work set free to innovate

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  • Tuesday, June 21, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire are among the authorities chosen to take part in the Partners in Practice programme to transform children's social care. Eileen Fursland finds out about their plans.

Social Media and E-professionalism in Child Welfare: Policy and Practice

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  • Tuesday, March 27, 2018
  • | CYP Now
This article reports that, in the United States, there is little guidance for managers and policymakers about how child welfare workers should search for or communicate with clients via social media. It offers a number of considerations for standards of e-professionalism. As well as the journal article, this summary draws on relevant guidance and frameworks from the UK.

Shared Services: Policy context

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Defining what shared services are is vital to understand the approaches that work best in services for children and young people and whether there is scope for this to grow.

Evidence and Impact: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Despite the political parties pledging billions of pounds of additional investment in public services during the election campaign – and assurances from ministers in the previous government that the era of austerity is over – the need for projects and organisations working with vulnerable children, young people and families to demonstrate their interventions are an efficient and effective use of resources has never been greater.

Legal Update: Impact of forced marriage law

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  • Monday, August 18, 2014
  • | CYP Now
In a follow-up to a recent piece on new legislation that criminalises forced marriage, Coram Children's Legal Centre researcher Catrin Gosby explores its potential impact, as well as some of its limitations.