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Abandon plans for bill of rights, government urged

Monday, April 25, 2022

| CYP Now

A group of 30 children’s charities is calling on the government to scrap its plans to feature a controversial bill of rights in the upcoming Queen’s speech.

Plymouth gets £1m boost to support care leavers

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Monday, February 10, 2020

| CYP Now

A council-run service has partnered with a children's charity as part of a £1m project to better support care leavers.

Coronavirus: Isolation advice for children's homes and special schools

News

Monday, March 23, 2020

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) has issued guidance for children’s homes and residential special schools on managing isolation during the coronavirus outbreak.

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.

ADCS president calls for urgent action to address inequality in first virtual speech

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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

| CYP Now

Financial, social and educational inequality should be addressed as a “priority” as the UK eases out of Covid-19 lockdown, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said.

Croydon Council names Debbie Jones as interim DCS

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Thursday, October 8, 2020

| CYP Now

Croydon Council has appointed former Ofsted national director for social care Debbie Jones as interim executive director for children, families and education.

How Covid-19 remade children’s services

Features

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

| CYP Now

A year on from the emergence of the coronavirus and onset of the pandemic, experts assess the long-term impact of the disruption it has caused to children’s services and young people’s lives.

Solihull Council ‘must develop three-year plan’ to improve children's services

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Monday, March 20, 2023

| CYP Now

Solihull Council should develop a three-year improvement plan in social care, focusing on improving the quality of social work practice and its impact on outcomes for children, a child protection expert has recommended.

Councils face increased pressure to respond to child refugee crisis

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Kent Council is struggling to cope with a major rise in the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children it is caring for, to the point where the government is preparing to force other authorities to share the burden.

Ofsted tells two councils to improve children's services

News

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

| CYP Now

Two councils have been told to improve standards within their children's services departments following inspections by Ofsted.

The future of children's services: proactive, predictive and digital

Other

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

If children's services are to deliver improved outcomes with declining resources, the sector must embrace technology, joint working and volunteers, says Pillars and Foundations, a radical paper from the ADCS.

Voice for the vulnerable: Carolyne Willow, director of Article 39

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Jess Brown meets Carolyne Willow, director of Article 39.

Rising numbers in child protection system 'down to cuts', MPs told

News

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

| CYP Now

Numbers of children entering the child protection system are on the rise because services designed to help them stay with their families are being "decimated", MPs have been told.

Queen's Speech: Sector welcomes Children and Social Work Bill

News

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has set out plans to reform children's social care through a Children and Social Work Bill, with the proposals being broadly well received by the sector.

Rotherham unveils plan to create child-centred borough

News

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

| CYP Now

The council at the centre of a major abuse scandal in 2014 has unveiled plans to improve services and create a "child-centred borough".

Legal Update: Court Report - Dental X-rays in age assessments

Other

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Family reunification for child refugees

Other

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Stewart MacLachlan considers recent case law that may allow some refugee children to apply to be reunited with their parents or siblings.

Social work set free to innovate

Other

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

| CYP Now

Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire are among the authorities chosen to take part in the Partners in Practice programme to transform children's social care. Eileen Fursland finds out about their plans.

High-performing councils explore alternative delivery models for children's services

News

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

| CYP Now

A growing number of councils with children's services departments that have been rated as "good" by Ofsted are considering alternative delivery models, it has emerged.

Ofsted downgrades Staffordshire children's home to ‘inadequate’, amid welfare concerns

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Friday, October 21, 2022

| CYP Now

A children’s home in Staffordshire has been judged “inadequate” after Ofsted found severe safeguarding failures less than a year after inspectors rated it “outstanding”.

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