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Special Report: Commissioning Care

Thursday, May 30, 2024

| CYP Now

A shortage of provision and a rise in vulnerable children has made social care placements harder to find and more expensive for councils and led to policymakers developing plans for regional commissioning.

Compulsory reporting of child sexual abuse plan dropped ahead of election

News

Thursday, May 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Controversial plans to introduce compulsory reporting of child sexual abuse (CSA) for some professionals working with children have been axed ahead of the general election on 4 July.

Interview: Author and educator Eloise Rickman

Features

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes talks to the author and educator about her new book on child rights.

Challenges in next parliament

Analysis

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Two senior politicians set out the key children’s services issues the next government must tackle.

Making children’s services leadership more diverse

Features

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

| CYP Now

People from black, Asian and minoritised backgrounds are under-represented in children’s services management. Hannah Crown investigates efforts to boost diversity in leadership roles across the sector.

Sector leaders criticise lack of progress two years on from Care Review publication

News

Thursday, May 23, 2024

| CYP Now

Children’s charities and sector leaders have raised concerns about the “painfully slow progress” of implementing reforms to the children’s social care system two years after recommendations were made in Josh MacAlister's Independent Review of Children's Social Care.

Covid inquiry turns attention to pandemic’s impact on children

News

Thursday, May 23, 2024

| CYP Now

The Covid-19 inquiry is to turn its attention to the pandemic’s impact on children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Conference to examine what works for early help amid cuts to services

News

Thursday, May 23, 2024

| CYP Now

The role of innovative and evidence-based interventions to support vulnerable families against a backdrop of cuts to local authority services is the focus of CYP Now’s Early Help Conference.

Tackling false economies in child services

Opinion

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

| CYP Now

I am writing this while rushing to finish work before going on holiday. I know this is a false economy because most things can wait until I’m back, when I’m refreshed; when I will do them better and quicker.