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Peterborough contract collapse: key reasons and its implications

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Seen as a blueprint for future charity and council partnerships to deliver children’s services, the £126m contract between Tact and Peterborough City Council has ended after just three years. Experts assess what can be learned.

Shared Services: Special Report

Features

Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local authorities to find a wider range of care options for vulnerable children and introduce a greater array of good practice approaches to improve outcomes.

Councils look to unite to deliver children's social care, survey finds

News

Monday, August 7, 2017

| CYP Now

A growing number of councils plan to join forces to run children's social care services, a government survey of children's services leaders has found.

Councils 'fail to equip' care leavers to manage their money

News

Thursday, September 15, 2016

| CYP Now

??Young people leaving the care system are falling into debt and losing benefits due to insufficient financial education and support from councils, research has found.

Trafford sets agenda for integration of children's care and health services

Other

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Having outsourced day-to-day management of its children's services to an NHS trust, Trafford Council plans to become the first area to fully integrate social care and community health services for children and adults.

Innovation and collaboration lands tri-borough ‘outstanding' ratings

Other

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

A new social work practice model, low caseloads and joined-up services have helped two of the three councils in a merged children's services department become the first to be judged "outstanding" by Ofsted's inspection system.

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.

Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services

Other

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

CYP Now has collected the views of children's services experts from a range of backgrounds to hear what they think the key challenges and opportunities will be in 2016 across services for children, young people and families.

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

News

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Kent County Council is holding discussions about the possibility of outsourcing elements of its children's social care work in order to help deal with an influx of asylum-seeking children, it has emerged.

Councils plan major cuts to children's homes to balance books

News

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Two councils have announced plans to cut spending on children's homes provision as part of efforts to reduce levels of spending within children's services.

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

Other

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.

Martin Narey's resignation statement

News

Thursday, November 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Sir Martin Narey took to social media network Twitter to announce his resignation from the Adoption Leadership Board.

Narey quits as head of Adoption Leadership Board

News

Thursday, November 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Sir Martin Narey has quit as head of the Adoption Leadership Board, the influential body set up by the government to drive through reforms to the sector.

Cameron announces review of children's residential care system

News

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a major "root and branch" review of children's residential care will be conducted by government adviser Sir Martin Narey.

Ask the Experts: Address suspicions over legal highs

Best Practice

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on the dangers of legal highs, child protection changes, building a bug hotel and holding a winter bazaar.

Funding cuts lead councils to seek new ways of delivering youth work

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

A new round of government funding through the Delivering Differently for Young People programme will aim to help more local authorities develop effective models of providing youth services at a reduced cost

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

The Prime Minister highlighted children's social care as ripe for reform in a speech this month, with failing services handed to trusts or other providers to run. Children's services experts give their views on what this means for the years ahead

Drop in number of children approved for adoption continues

News

Friday, August 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Numbers of children being approved for adoption are continuing to fall, it has emerged.

DfE sanctions urgent probe into children's services spending

News

Friday, August 14, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) has ordered a study into the spending habits of local authority children's services departments ahead of expected central government cuts being announced in November.

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

News

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

| CYP Now

More local authority children's services departments will be taken out of council control in order to tackle failure, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

News

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

How charities can demonstrate social value to commissioners

Other

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

The way public services are commissioned is undergoing considerable change, but charities pitched into competition for funding with private companies have a possible advantage - as long as they can demonstrate the additional social values they provide above and beyond the primary aims of a project.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

News

Friday, October 24, 2014

| CYP Now

A lack of authority-wide support for change and an "arcane" IT system were key reasons for slow progress in improving children's services in Somerset, the council's former director of children's services (DCS) has claimed.

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

News

Monday, October 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Somerset County Council has announced it has terminated the contract of the interim director of children's services (DCS) for failing to deliver improvements at the struggling authority quickly enough.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

News

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

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Peterborough contract collapse: key reasons and its implications

Shared Services: Special Report

Councils look to unite to deliver children's social care, survey finds

Councils 'fail to equip' care leavers to manage their money

Trafford sets agenda for integration of children's care and health services

Innovation and collaboration lands tri-borough ‘outstanding' ratings

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

Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

Councils plan major cuts to children's homes to balance books

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

Martin Narey's resignation statement

Narey quits as head of Adoption Leadership Board

Cameron announces review of children's residential care system

Ask the Experts: Address suspicions over legal highs

Funding cuts lead councils to seek new ways of delivering youth work

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

Drop in number of children approved for adoption continues

DfE sanctions urgent probe into children's services spending

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

How charities can demonstrate social value to commissioners

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

Slough children's services to become independent trust

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