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Schools must embrace social workers

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  • Tuesday, March 11, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Teachers need to overcome a resistance and resentment towards having social workers in schools to help vulnerable children, a study has found.

Skills shake-up to unify sector

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  • Tuesday, February 26, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Distinctions between professions such as teaching, youth work and childcare could disappear under government plans to strenghten the concept of children's professionals, CYP Now has learnt.

Union chief voices concerns to PM

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  • Tuesday, February 5, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The head of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has written to the Prime Minister raising concerns about a government review of the role of children's social workers.

Expert slams social work practices

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  • Tuesday, January 8, 2008
    • | CYP Now
A war of words has broken out between two leading professionals over controversial social work practices due to be introduced this year, which are a key plank of the Children and Young Persons Bill.

Analysis: Children's plan - Blueprint for a brighter future

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  • Tuesday, January 8, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The Children's Plan, unveiled last month, sets out strategies to improve services for children, young people and their families over the next ten years. Here, CYP Now extracts the main points in the plan and asks the sector for its reaction.

Inspection row engulfs Ofsted

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  • Tuesday, December 11, 2007
    • | CYP Now
This year's Ofsted inspections of local authority children's services have been dogged with inconsistencies and confusion to the point where some councils are considering taking the watchdog to a judicial review, CYP Now can reveal.

Pedagogues face cultural barriers

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  • Tuesday, December 4, 2007
    • | CYP Now
A number of barriers must be overcome if the UK is to introduce European-style social pedagogues, a senior researcher at the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) has said.

Legal aid contract is harming the young

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  • Tuesday, November 27, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Recent changes to legal aid are driving children's lawyers out of the profession and jeopardising efforts to speed up care proceedings, the Association of Lawyers for Children (ALC) has warned.

Analysis: Safeguarding - Social workers required in hospitals?

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  • Tuesday, November 13, 2007
    • | CYP Now
A report published by the National Children's Bureau has found that social workers and hospital staff remain professionally isolated and young lives are being adversely affected by the lack of communication. Mathew Little asks if a shake-up is needed.

Social care may suffer in practices

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  • Tuesday, October 23, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Having social workers operating from independent social work practices will make working together with other professionals more difficult, a leading expert has warned.

'Wet' social workers report rejected

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  • Tuesday, October 23, 2007
    • | CYP Now
The General Social Care Council (GSCC) is to go back to the drawing board after children's professionals slammed its report on the role of social workers as "wet".

Brathay wins deal to unite the North

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  • Tuesday, October 23, 2007
    • | CYP Now
The Brathay Hall Trust has won a three-year contract to lead a multi-agency team development programme to help integrate children's services in northern England.

Failure to meet fostering costs

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  • Tuesday, October 9, 2007
    • | CYP Now
More than half of England's local authorities are failing to pay foster carers enough to cover their costs, forcing them to dip into their own pockets or see the children they care for go without, according to research.

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