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Legal Update: Family group conferences

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| CYP Now

Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford, head of impact and evaluation at Coram outline findings from an evaluation of the use of FGCs at the pre-proceedings stage.

DCS to step down after just a year in post

News

Friday, June 9, 2023

| CYP Now

The director of children’s services (DCS) at Plymouth City Council will step down from the position after just a year in the role, the local authority has announced.

Legal Update: Kinship care arrangements

Features

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Clare Seth, kinship consultant at CoramBAAF, analyses the impact that proposed government reforms following the Care Review will have for kinship carers and the children they look after.

Home Office response to child sexual abuse inquiry ‘will not protect children’, review chair warns

News

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| CYP Now

The government’s response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) “will not provide the protection from sexual abuse that our children deserve”, said the investigation’s chair.

Legal Update: Illegal Migration Bill

Features

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Marianne Lagrue, policy and programmes manager in the Migrant Children's Project at Coram Children's Legal Centre, assesses the Illegal Migration Bill's impact on children and agencies.

Council to review treatment of children with SEND

News

Monday, April 3, 2023

| CYP Now

West Northamptonshire Council is set to review its treatment of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), after an ombudsman investigation revealed a number of children were left without adequate education.

Bexley Council retains 'outstanding' Ofsted rating

News

Thursday, March 30, 2023

| CYP Now

A south east London council has been praised for maintaining “outstanding” children’s services by Ofsted inspectors, despite an increase in demand following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Legal Update: Review of Ukraine schemes

Features

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| CYP Now

With Homes for Ukraine and other schemes to support Ukrainians having been running for a year, Alison East, senior solicitor at Coram Children's Legal Centre, assesses their successes.

Ofsted praises 'significant' improvements at council's children's services

News

Monday, March 27, 2023

| CYP Now

East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s children’s services has seen “significant and sustained changes”, since its last inspection in 2019 Ofsted has found, resulting in the withdrawal of an improvement notice from the Department for Education.

Ofsted: Rochdale not making ‘sufficient progress’ to improve

News

Thursday, March 23, 2023

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Rochdale Council’s children’s services department has “not made sufficient progress” to correct failures in supporting vulnerable young people over the last five years, Ofsted has warned.

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

News

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.

Budget 2023: Chancellor urged to offer permanent financial aid to vulnerable families

News

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

| CYP Now

Councillors across England and Wales are supporting The Children’s Society’s call for the government to offer long-term welfare assistance to families struggling to cope with rising living costs in the upcoming Spring Budget.

Childline uses tech to track impact of its online support

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| CYP Now

Childline Online Services aims to empower children and young people to use its range of internet-based resources in ways that will benefit them individually.

Workforce shortage is threat to care reforms

Opinion

Thursday, February 23, 2023

| CYP Now

The government's Care Review response, Stable Homes, Built on Love, sets ambitious targets for improving children's outcomes, testing new approaches to early help, and boosting professional standards in child protection work.

Directors blame disjointed policy and onerous inspection for high turnover rates

News

Monday, February 20, 2023

| CYP Now

Rising workloads, an onerous inspection regime and lack of policy leadership are key factors in the high turnover of directors of children’s services (DCS), latest research shows.

Children's social care funding key driver behind council tax increases

News

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

| CYP Now

Three in four councils are planning to increase their council tax by the maximum amount in April, in order to fund vital public services such as children’s social care, research from the County Councils Network (CCN) has found.

Ofsted praises ‘transformation’ of children’s services at Lancashire County Council

News

Monday, February 13, 2023

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Ofsted has praised the “transformation” of Lancashire County Council's children’s services, lifting its rating from “requires improvement” to “good”.

Council failed to support woman and children fleeing violence, ombudsman finds

News

Thursday, February 9, 2023

| CYP Now

West Berkshire Council has been criticised by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) for failing to provide safe accommodation to a woman and her children who were fleeing threats of violence.

Ofsted praises ‘accelerated improvements’ in Blackpool’s children’s services

News

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

| CYP Now

Blackpool Council's children’s services has seen “accelerated improvements” since being rated "inadequate" by Ofsted in 2018, but inspectors have advised more progress is needed to ensure all children receive help and protection.