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On the case with the Cafcass intake team

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  • Monday, April 13, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The creation of an "intake team" by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service has improved the speed and accuracy of information sent to courts. Charlotte Goddard spent a day with them.

How charities can demonstrate social value to commissioners

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  • Tuesday, March 17, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The way public services are commissioned is undergoing considerable change, but charities pitched into competition for funding with private companies have a possible advantage - as long as they can demonstrate the additional social values they provide above and beyond the primary aims of a project.

SEN checks must focus on local progress, not just crude ratings

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  • Tuesday, February 3, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The disability and special educational needs reforms, with joined-up education, health and care plans at their heart, are finally starting to bite. They make complete sense to me, with a far greater focus on children's strengths rather than their weaknesses, and a requirement that professionals will work together as a team to wrap support around the family.

Give councils more powers to help underperforming schools

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for local school commissioners to be introduced to co-ordinate the creation of new school places, support and challenge academies, and broker school improvement services.

Our children's services need an institute for excellence

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
  • | CYP Now
I've attended dozens of meetings and presentations about how children's services could and should be improved. Almost none of this has had any lasting impact. I've come to the view that we need something like the National Institute for National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) in the NHS, a National Institute for Children's Services Excellence that would promote best practice, with professional authority and based on the evidence. This conclusion is driven by the recognition that nothing else has worked.

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.

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