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County councils seek to innovate to tackle social care challenges

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

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Rising demand for care services and falling funding for early help has put huge pressure on county council budgets, forcing many areas to think creatively about how they can deliver more support for less money.

How charities are doing more for less

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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The cost-of-living crisis means charities working with children and families have seen costs spiral as demand for services increases. Sector experts and charities discuss key challenges and solutions.

First youth mutuals prosper by extending reach and expertise

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

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Since taking on the running of youth work in Knowsley and Kensington and Chelsea, youth mutuals have increased income, maintained services and reduced overheads, but it has not been an easy transition, say those in charge.

Safeguarding help for charities

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

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The voluntary sector can help to safeguard young people, but needs support and funding, says Sam Marks.

Zika threat highlights need for public health investment

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

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In the first half of the 20th Century, polio became feared across the world.

Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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CYP Now has collected the views of children's services experts from a range of backgrounds to hear what they think the key challenges and opportunities will be in 2016 across services for children, young people and families.

Sport England Small Grants

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

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Sport England aims to help people and communities by investing in organisations and projects that will increase sports participation and create opportunities for people to excel.

The implications of the Spending Review on services for children

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

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Measures announced in the Chancellor's Spending Review will result in core funding for councils falling 24 per cent in real terms over the next four years. How will this affect children, young people and their families?

Spending Review should usher in consolidation on many fronts

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

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So now we know for certain about the money.

DfE study to inform Spending Review 'not completed in time'

Friday, December 4, 2015

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A study ordered by the Department for Education (DfE) in order to inform decisions made at last month's Spending Review about how children's services will be funded over the next five years is yet to be completed, CYP Now can reveal.

Government threatens to force councils to take on asylum-seeking children

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

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Government is considering forcing local authorities to take on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in order to ease pressure on Kent County Council, it has emerged.

Ofsted rates government-imposed children's services trust 'inadequate'

Friday, November 27, 2015

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An independent children's services trust that was established on government orders has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Fighting for the frontline: Association of YOT Managers chair Gareth Jones

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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Neil Puffett meets Gareth Jones, chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers.

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Monday, September 28, 2015

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Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?

Funding cuts lead councils to seek new ways of delivering youth work

Monday, September 28, 2015

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A new round of government funding through the Delivering Differently for Young People programme will aim to help more local authorities develop effective models of providing youth services at a reduced cost

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

Monday, September 28, 2015

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The Prime Minister highlighted children's social care as ripe for reform in a speech this month, with failing services handed to trusts or other providers to run. Children's services experts give their views on what this means for the years ahead

Spending Review will force children's services to rethink how they deliver

Monday, August 31, 2015

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In less than three months' time the government will publish its Spending Review, setting out department budgets for the four years from 2016/17 to 2019/20, with the impact on children's services likely to be profound.

DfE sanctions urgent probe into children's services spending

Friday, August 14, 2015

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The Department for Education (DfE) has ordered a study into the spending habits of local authority children's services departments ahead of expected central government cuts being announced in November.

CAMHS spending cut by £35m in a single year

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

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More than £35m was cut from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) last year, it has emerged.

ADCS Conference: President warns of funding crisis and ‘broken' Ofsted framework

Friday, July 10, 2015

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Children's services departments are facing a "looming crisis" because of funding cuts, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has warned.?

Social investment advocate: Joanne Hay, Teens and Toddlers chief executive

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

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Derren Hayes meets Joanne Hay, chief executive of Teens and Toddlers.

Triangle Trust - development grants

Monday, May 25, 2015

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The Triangle Trust's grants are designed to help charities, social enterprises and community interest companies whose primary purpose is to support unpaid carers or those helping the rehabilitation of offenders to develop sustainable income sources, so that when it comes to an end, the organisation's income will not be reduced.

Election 2015 Party Policy Guide: Public spending

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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Further austerity is the only election certainty

Monday, April 27, 2015

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As the curtain comes down on this Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, it is worth reflecting on what we've learnt from the past five years - as it looks increasingly likely that the future holds more of the same.

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