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Vox Pop: Will child heart surgery unit closures put children at risk?

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Campaigners have won a High Court victory against plans to consolidate heart surgery units in England

Daily roundup: Child poverty, spending cuts and Sandwell suspension

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Monday, March 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Child poverty adviser warns government over "muddled" reforms, £850m cut predicted for Department for Education, and Sandwell suspends children's service director, all in the news today.

Culture change required for mental health services

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

| CYP Now

The Mental Health Taskforce has published its long-awaited report on children and young people's mental health and wellbeing.

Five ways to develop successful and sustainable youth groups

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

UK Youth has identified five key characteristics that underpin successful youth groups: a wide range of services, high-quality provision, young people's input, measurable outcomes and a sustainable business model.

Sharing, caring president: Dave Hill, ADCS president, 2016/17

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett meets Dave Hill, president of the ADCS, 2016/17.

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.

Big-picture inspection: guide to the new JTAI

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

New Joint Targeted Area Inspections to assess how different agencies are working together to support vulnerable children have just been launched. Joe Lepper explores how they work.

Youth Work: 'Open-access youth work principles must be instilled into all services'

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Monday, July 20, 2015

| CYP Now

Increasing the contribution of volunteers and forming partnerships with other sector providers are two measures councils must develop if they are to make future youth provision available to all, says a leading academic.

Fight to educate 'remote' Australians has lessons for UK

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Monday, July 20, 2015

| CYP Now

I have worked in several local authorities and they all seemed very different to each other - Inner London, Birmingham, Somerset, Dudley.

Putting children's rights at the heart of services for children

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

A Unicef UK programme is helping five councils change how they deliver and commission a range of children's services by redesigning them using the principles that underpin the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Children at risk from council mergers

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| CYP Now

Vulnerable children could be placed at risk if neighbouring local authorities merge their children services departments, the union Unison has warned.

How coaching helps transform staff attitude

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

| CYP Now

A programme of "transformational coaching" empowers professionals to handle tough situations and provide families with better support.

Ask the Expert: Reviewing risk in systems

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Inspections future tops agenda

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Monday, July 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's directors' chief outlines vision for a two-tier inspection system at the ADCS annual conference.

Daily roundup: Youth centres, children's services and leadership

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Charities set to take on running of Liverpool youth centres; tri-borough arrangements to be reviewed by Labour; and new DCS appointed in Southwark, all in the news today.

Birmingham bids to put children's views at the heart of 10-year vision

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Monday, October 13, 2014

| CYP Now

An independent review of growing up in Birmingham has highlighted the priorities for children and young people and puts forward some radical ideas for how to solve them - with council involvement key to delivering change.

Daily roundup: Tobacco packaging, play scheme arson and maths lessons in schools

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

| CYP Now

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child health speak out on tobacco packaging, a charity counts the cost of an arson attack and fears over maths proposals, all make the news roundup today.

Ask the Expert: Emergency placements

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Monday, August 20, 2012

| CYP Now

Funding cuts lead councils to seek new ways of delivering youth work

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

A new round of government funding through the Delivering Differently for Young People programme will aim to help more local authorities develop effective models of providing youth services at a reduced cost