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Complete communicator

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Neil Puffett meets Anna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau.

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.

The Dulverton Trust

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  • Monday, September 1, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The Dulverton Trust is an independent body that provides grants to UK-registered charities to fund activities for disadvantaged young people. It also funds other areas including welfare and conservation. It usually provides single year grants but occasionally provides longer-term support of up to three years.

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.

Legal Update: Call for action plan on FGM

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  • Monday, July 21, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The home affairs committee has published a report calling for a national action plan on female genital mutilation. Catrin Gosby, researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the report's proposals.

FGM: Breaking the silence

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  • Monday, June 9, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The UK's first prosecutions for female genital mutilation took place this year. Gabriella Jozwiak examines the role of children's services to safeguard and support girls and young women.

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