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Ask the Experts: Support academies to improve

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on problem academies, whole-family assessments, supporting parents at nursery and a squatting protest.

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

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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.

Key steps that will improve play services for disabled children

Features

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

A charity has devised a blueprint for improved access to good quality play provision for disabled children under five through more national funding, investing in childcare providers' facilities, making play a statutory service and enforcing equalities law.

Evaluating early intervention

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Intervening early can prevent problems escalating and save money in the long term. But how do services demonstrate this? Joe Lepper asked a range of experts for advice on effective evaluation.

Behind the Inspection Rating: Staff ensure quality short breaks

Other

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Ade Adepitan Short Break Centre, London - short break centre inspection - September 2015.

Ask the Experts: Be smart on your return to work

Other

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Our expert panel offers advice on returning to work after absence, effective nursery websites, personal boundaries and young refugees.

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.

Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died

News

Friday, November 27, 2015

| CYP Now

A children's services department that was providing support for three vulnerable children who died in the space of a month has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

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.

Early help must stem the flow of neglect cases to social care

Other

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

| CYP Now

With the number of children on child protection plans due to neglect on the rise, research by the NSPCC suggests a lack of understanding is resulting in universal services referring some cases that could be managed with early help.

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

Other

Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders gathered at CYP Now's Early Help Conference to discuss latest policy developments in early help and hear how local areas are developing interventions across a range of settings and age groups.

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

Other

Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Qualification requirements and training provision for working with children and young people is continuously adapting in line with changes in policy and practice. Charlotte Goddard provides a comprehensive overview.

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

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).

Child protection 'will struggle to cope' with Spending Review cuts

News

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Work by councils to protect children from abuse and neglect will struggle to continue at its current level if funding for local authorities is cut further in the autumn's Spending Review, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Children's centres face uncertain future amid cuts and closures

Other

Monday, August 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Sure Start children's centres are at a crossroads. With funding cuts forcing many councils to close or downgrade provision and a government review about to be launched, experts set out what the future holds.

Tory council boss hits out at government over Ofsted grading

News

Thursday, May 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The leader of a council where children's services were graded "inadequate" by Ofsted has blamed central government for falling standards.

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.

Government to consider intervention in Somerset children's services

News

Monday, March 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education will consider intervening in the running of children's services in Somerset after the department was labelled "inadequate" by Ofsted for the second time in less than two years.

Ofsted tells two further authorities to improve children's services

News

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Two more English authorities have been told by Ofsted that their children's services are not up to scratch.

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Ask the Experts: Support academies to improve

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

Key steps that will improve play services for disabled children

Evaluating early intervention

Behind the Inspection Rating: Staff ensure quality short breaks

Ask the Experts: Be smart on your return to work

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

Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

Early help must stem the flow of neglect cases to social care

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

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

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

Child protection 'will struggle to cope' with Spending Review cuts

Children's centres face uncertain future amid cuts and closures

Tory council boss hits out at government over Ofsted grading

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Government to consider intervention in Somerset children's services

Ofsted tells two further authorities to improve children's services

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