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Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2020
  • | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

Social work set free to innovate

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  • Tuesday, June 21, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire are among the authorities chosen to take part in the Partners in Practice programme to transform children's social care. Eileen Fursland finds out about their plans.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Early Help

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The government is investing £200m to extend its Supporting Families programme to March 2025. Supporting Families provides targeted early interventions for families with complex, interconnected problems.

Nearly 200,000 babies at risk of harm in the UK

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  • Wednesday, November 9, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Nearly 200,000 babies in the UK are at risk of serious harm, according to figures released by the NSPCC as it launched its campaign to highlight the vulnerability of children aged under one.

Special Report: Early Help

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  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Council early help services are changing. With budgets falling and demand for intensive services rising, early help is evolving into a more multi-agency intervention targeted at the most disadvantaged families.

Early Help: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Amid rising demand for child protection services over the past decade, early help support for children and families with emerging or less severe problems has been largely left on the political, policy and funding sidelines.

Early intervention must be bold, joined-up and long-term

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  • Monday, April 28, 2014
  • | CYP Now
According to a Riots Communities and Victims Panel report in the wake of the 2011 summer riots, 500,000 families were "just coping" - dropping in and out of crisis with little hope of escape from the vicious circle in which they are caught.