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Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training 2023/24

Friday, September 1, 2023

| CYP Now

With many parts of the sector facing recruitment challenges, Joe Lepper identifies developments in entry-level requirements and ongoing professional development for children's services practitioners.

Inside CYP Now this month: Residential youth work, Care Review pilot, youth justice trends

News

Thursday, August 31, 2023

| CYP Now

The September edition of Children & Young People Now has all the latest news, views and analysis on the key issues affecting services for children, young people and families.

Children with a parent in prison get timely help

Best Practice

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Project speeds up process of identifying children affected by parental imprisonment to boost wellbeing and reduce the risk of intergenerational offending.

Disparity between the discharge of care orders in England and Wales

Analysis

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Researchers investigate the benefits and pitfalls of different ways in which care orders are discharged, asking what needs to change in policy and practice to better meet the needs of children and families.

Three trailblazer councils to pilot MacAlister's ‘families first’ plan

Analysis

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Council leaders share early proposals on delivery of the government's Families First for Children scheme designed to ‘test new ways to reform every part of children's social care’ in response to the Care Review.

‘Outstanding’ council launches social worker recruitment campaign

News

Friday, August 25, 2023

| CYP Now

A local authority has launched a recruitment campaign to attract social workers after being awarded its second consecutive “outstanding” rating by Ofsted.

Essex council praised for ‘outstanding’ children’s services

News

Monday, August 14, 2023

| CYP Now

Essex County Council's children's services have been rated “outstanding” by Ofsted, with inspectors praising improvements in the quality of planning for disabled children and those in private foster care.

Ofsted praises Lambeth’s in house review of children’s services

News

Thursday, August 10, 2023

| CYP Now

Lambeth council’s review of improvements needed to its children’s services is already “leading to positive” change, according to Ofsted inspectors.

Housing children in asylum hotels is 'unlawful’, judge rules

News

Friday, July 28, 2023

| CYP Now

The High Court has ruled that Kent County Council and the Home Secretary breached legal obligations to provide appropriate accommodation for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Legal Update: The Carer’s Leave Act 2023

Features

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Augusta Itua, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, assesses the implications for carers of new legislation that gives employees the right to take leave in order to provide or arrange for long-term care needs.

Legal Update: Keeping children in care safe

Features

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

CoramBAAF head of policy, research and development James Bury on how the vital role of health professionals for care safeguarding was explored at this year’s CoramBAAF Health Conference.

Positive relationships reduce homelessness among care leavers, study finds

News

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Supporting children in care to build positive relationships with trusted adults can reduce their risk of homelessness by 10 per cent, a new analysis of the Lifelong Links programme has found.

Protect women in pre-birth care proceedings

Opinion

Thursday, July 20, 2023

| CYP Now

The number of newborn babies subject to care proceedings has more than doubled since 2007, and every year tens of thousands of women have involvement from children’s social care teams during pregnancy and early motherhood.

Ombudsman uncovers huge SEND complaints backlog in Kent

News

Monday, July 10, 2023

| CYP Now

A backlog of 170 unanswered complaints submitted to Kent County Council over delayed support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has been uncovered during a Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) investigation.

ADCS president warns of 'untenable' risks posed by placement capacity crisis

News

Thursday, July 6, 2023

| CYP Now

Risks to children in care posed by a lack of placement capacity and exacerbated by a profit-based system are becoming “increasingly untenable”, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has warned.

Ofsted renews Lincolnshire’s outstanding rating

News

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

| CYP Now

Inspectors have renewed Lincolnshire County Council children’s services rating of "outstanding" four years after its previous full inspection.

Councils fear Afghan refugees face homelessness amid housing shortage

News

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

| CYP Now

Around 8,000 Afghan asylum seekers in temporary accommodation are at risk of becoming homeless due to housing shortages and long waiting lists, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Child protection system ‘at risk’ without government action, NSPCC chief warns

News

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| CYP Now

A “lack of coherent national leadership” in implementing recommendations made in a series of major inquiries into support services for vulnerable children is putting the child protection system at risk, the NSPCC's chief executive has warned.

Legal Update: Family group conferences

Features

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.

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