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Children England’s demise highlights failing ‘market’

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  • Thursday, September 21, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Following the collapse in 2016 of children’s charity 4Children, Kathy Evans, chief executive of Children England warned that “the serious financial fragility of the children’s services ‘marketplace’ is a very real and urgent problem for large and small organisations alike”.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Early Help

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  • Friday, September 1, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Early support for children and families looks set for a boost with the creation of family hubs, intended to bring together a range of services for children up to the age of 19, or 25 for those with special educational needs and disabilities.

Parenting Programmes: Key policy developments

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  • Tuesday, March 28, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Parenting support programmes (also called parent training programmes) educate, support and assist parents to develop skills that will help them to address child behavioural problems and also promote desirable parent-child relationships.

Therapeutic Care: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Therapeutic care has its roots in the post-war psychoanalytic movement that sought to understand the impact trauma has on children and young people and what support needs to be put in place to give them the best chance of recovering.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Early Help

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The government is investing £200m to extend its Supporting Families programme to March 2025. Supporting Families provides targeted early interventions for families with complex, interconnected problems.

Early Help Special Report Policy Context

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  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Since 2010/11, spending by councils on early help services has fallen from £3.8bn to £1.9bn per year (see graphics). The brunt of the spending cuts has been on support for young people – 77 per cent fall from £1.3bn to £300m – and children’s centres – down 73 per cent from £1.5bn to £400m.

Trauma-Informed Services: Policy Context

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  • Tuesday, July 26, 2022
    • | CYP Now
CYP Now’s special report on trauma-informed services summarises the key policy drivers shaping trauma-based practice and interventions, assesses latest research on the impact that trauma-informed approaches are having, and highlights examples of innovative practice across agencies working with vulnerable children and families.

Sustainable Services: Policy context

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  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
    • | CYP Now
There are numerous studies showing how events like floods, fires, drought and harm to animals as a result of habitat destruction are affecting the mental health of young people, who now face even more uncertainty about their future because of the pandemic.

Parenting Programmes: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, January 26, 2021
    • | CYP Now
The focus of parenting support has tended to be on interventions with pre-school age children, such as Coram Family and Childcare’s Parent Champions programme which is a peer support network (see expert view).

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, September 29, 2020
    • | CYP Now
The basis for much of the work in the UK and internationally on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is drawn from a 1997 US study by CDC Kaiser on childhood traumas. This study identified a list of 10 ACEs that then formed the basis for a questionnaire used by researchers as a screening tool to assess the impact of childhood trauma on adults.

Inspections Clinic - Workforce stability Q&A

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  • Tuesday, July 28, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Research highlights the link between a stable workforce and better outcomes for children. Ofsted’s Yvette Stanley tells Jo Stephenson how it is assessing workforce stability across children’s social care services

Policy: Commissioning – Placement Planning

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  • Thursday, May 28, 2020
    • | CYP Now
How local authority children’s services commissioners ensure sufficient high-quality placements for vulnerable children while navigating a complex series of social, political and financial pressures

Leadership - Heart-centred leadership

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  • Wednesday, May 27, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Leaders are often under enormous pressure to do more with ever-dwindling resources, but taking a ‘heart-centred’ approach can help them to better support their staff through these challenging times

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.

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