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Ask Jeanie: Transferring young people with complex needs

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  • Monday, March 21, 2011
    • | CYP Now
I am a social worker in a busy frontline team. One of the young women on my caseload has been placed out of county in a private placement for just over a year. She has complex needs that local provision has been unable to meet. My managers have decided to bring her back into a local authority intensive fostering placement due to the cutbacks, but she does not want to move as she is settled and happy and in school. I don't think this is fair and feel really torn -- what can I do?

Court Report: Child abduction

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  • Monday, March 21, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Case Name: O (Children); Case Number: [2011] EWCA Civ 128; Judge: Lord Justice Wilson, Lord Justice Pitchford and Lady Justice Black; Location: Court of Appeal

Consultancy spend trebles at DCSF

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  • Tuesday, January 20, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has been criticised for trebling its spending on consultants to more than 61m over two years.

DCSF looks at new care contracts

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  • Tuesday, June 10, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has proposed two new national contracts for leaving care and secure children's homes.

Study on children-in-care councils

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  • Monday, June 21, 2010
    • | CYP Now
London Councils has commissioned the Care Matters Partnership to carry out research into how local authorities can overcome barriers to establishing successful children-in-care councils.

Atkinson speaks out on her role

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  • Monday, July 5, 2010
    • | CYP Now
England's children's commissioner Maggie Atkinson does not want her powers to be extended, remaining satisfied that her office's sole remit is to influence policy.

Resources: Get with it

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  • Wednesday, October 1, 2008
    • | CYP Now
US pop trio Jonas Brothers were virtually unknown in the UK until last month when British comedian Russell Brand took a swipe at their clean-living image at the MTV Video Awards in LA.

Numbers game - The effects of long-term bad housing

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  • Wednesday, October 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Children who live in overcrowded, run-down or poorly heated accommodation for more than three consecutive years are more likely to suffer worse outcomes than their counterparts who live in similar conditions for shorter periods of time, according to research by NatCen.

Worker suspended after child murder

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  • Tuesday, January 18, 2011
    • | CYP Now
A social worker has been suspended for two years after admitting she ignored warnings that a toddler was being abused a week before the child was murdered by her mother's partner.

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