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

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.

Family Fund Mobility Support

Funding

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

The Family Fund's Mobility Support programme provides car-leasing packages to low-income families raising a young disabled or seriously ill child with significant mobility needs, to help with travelling to appointments and assist with day-to-day activities.

Legal: Illegal Migration Act – an update

Features

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Stewart MacLachlan, legal and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, assesses the final version of the controversial legislation and its potential impact on children and agencies.

‘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.

Keep up the pressure for all children across society

Opinion

Thursday, August 24, 2023

| CYP Now

The past few years have been difficult for our young people, and as they deal with the impact of the pandemic, they face even greater challenges.

Ensuring every child has meaningful relationships to depend on

Opinion

Thursday, August 24, 2023

| CYP Now

We all need people to turn to in our lives, for emotional and practical support – whether it's family, friends or wider community. These relationships, formed from early childhood, also help shape our sense of who we are.

Service launches to help charities tackle child sexual abuse

News

Thursday, August 17, 2023

| CYP Now

Child protection charities are being urged to apply for a fully funded consultancy service to help improve the impact of their work in tackling child sexual abuse.

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.

DfE orders struggling council to improve SEND services

News

Monday, August 7, 2023

| CYP Now

A local authority, which is already under government direction to improve its children’s services, has been issued a separate notice from the Department for Education over its failure to provide "adequate" support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

CYP Now Awards: 2023 finalists revealed

News

Thursday, August 3, 2023

| CYP Now

The shortlist for this year’s Children & Young People Now Awards has been published.

Fund councils to better monitor home education, ADCS urges

News

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

| CYP Now

Local authorities should be funded to properly support and monitor education provided to home-schooled children, according to children’s services leaders.

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.

County councils seek to innovate to tackle social care challenges

Analysis

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

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.

Interview: Peter O’Hara, health and social care technology entrepreneur

Features

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes speaks to the health and social care technology entrepreneur.

Inside CYP Now this month: Supported employment, speech and language special, funded childcare

News

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

The August 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.

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.