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Daily roundup: Early education, youth employment, and care proceedings

Monday, June 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Labour to look at boosting school nurseries; fewer young people in work than over-50s; and figures reveal number of mothers with multiple children taken into care, all in the news today.

Social worker knowledge gap ‘threatens care proceedings targets'

News

Thursday, July 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Social workers will struggle to meet Children and Families Act commitments to reduce the length of care proceedings, a survey by the Victoria Climbié Foundation (VCF) suggests.

Children's Social Work Matters

Other

Thursday, May 4, 2017

| CYP Now

A region-wide approach uniting 15 local authority children's services that encourages staff to share best practice.

High Court judge to succeed Munby as Family Division president

News

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

| CYP Now

A Court of Appeal judge is to replace Sir James Munby as England and Wales's most senior family court judge, the government has announced.

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

News

Thursday, March 21, 2013

| CYP Now

An independent panel of experts will be created to vet the decisions of local safeguarding children board chairs under revised safeguarding guidance published today.

Expert witness fee cut could 'hinder' family court judges

News

Monday, December 2, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's lawyers and social work bodies have raised concerns that it will be harder to find expert witnesses to give evidence in care cases due to a cut in fees paid to them through the legal aid system.

Legal Update: Court Report - Mother fakes child's death to stop contact

Best Practice

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Case name SA v BN (contact order) Case number [2013] EWHC 4417 (Fam)

The optimum place

Features

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

| CYP Now

As the number of children in care continues to rise, Joe Lepper examines how commissioners are juggling the perennial challenge of placing children according to their needs at reasonable cost.

ADCS Conference: Local authorities challenged to improve care plans

News

Friday, July 8, 2011

| CYP Now

Councils have been challenged to improve the quality of children's care planning to silence critics of the family justice review's proposal to reduce court powers of scrutiny.

Cafcass study highlights CSE learning from case reviews

News

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) may be so influenced by abusers that they are unable to provide full or accurate accounts of their experiences to safeguarding professionals, analysis has concluded.

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Contact Orders

Other

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Q. How can child contact and residence be enforced in orders made before April 2014?

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Special guardianship order cases

Other

Monday, May 11, 2015

| CYP Now

The Court of Appeal highlights the importance of substantive and procedural protections in special guardianship order cases.

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

News

Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of children being made subject to special guardianship orders (SGOs) is continuing to rise, government figures have shown.

DfE tightens up special guardianship rules

News

Thursday, December 17, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) is to take action after finding a "significant minority" of children are being placed at risk through inappropriate special guardianship orders (SGOs).

New care applications fall five per cent

News

Thursday, November 14, 2019

| CYP Now

The number of new care applications for children being dealt with by the courts is continuing to fall, according to official figures.

Skills for the Job: Social media and social work

Other

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

Social media can present difficult challenges for people working in the family courts, so how can practitioners use it securely?

Fresh drive to speed up care proceedings

News

Monday, February 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders have unveiled a new tool to help social workers in their bid to speed up care proceedings.

Making best use of guardianships

Other

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Revised regulations on the use of special guardianship orders tighten criteria for assessing carers' suitability.

Children to be removed from families as part of ‘randomised adoption trial'

Other

Friday, April 1, 2016

| CYP Now

Scores of children will be removed from their birth parents under controversial government plans to prove the value of adoption, it has emerged.

Legal Update: Relationships with the court

Features

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| CYP Now

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, explains how the charity is working with local authorities and judges to improve understanding of care orders so the right one is used.

ChildRIGHT Ask the Expert: Parental restrictions during contact time

Other

Monday, September 13, 2010

| CYP Now

Can a parent restrict what the other parent is able to do during their contact time?

Top judge Sir Nicholas Wall calls for better rights for unmarried couples

News

Thursday, February 3, 2011

| CYP Now

England's top family judge has called for unmarried couples to get new rights to share property and money if they break up.

Family justice review seeks time limit for child protection cases in courts

News

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

| CYP Now

Courts should be forced to deal with all child protection cases within a statutory six-month time limit, according to a wide-ranging review of the family justice system.

Care applications reach new record high

News

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of care applications has risen by eight per cent in the past year, according to latest statistics from Cafcass.

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Changes to legal aid: education law

Other

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

| CYP Now

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 will significantly reduce access to legal aid

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Daily roundup: Early education, youth employment, and care proceedings

Social worker knowledge gap ‘threatens care proceedings targets'

Children's Social Work Matters

High Court judge to succeed Munby as Family Division president

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Expert witness fee cut could 'hinder' family court judges

Legal Update: Court Report - Mother fakes child's death to stop contact

The optimum place

ADCS Conference: Local authorities challenged to improve care plans

Cafcass study highlights CSE learning from case reviews

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Contact Orders

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Special guardianship order cases

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

DfE tightens up special guardianship rules

New care applications fall five per cent

Skills for the Job: Social media and social work

Fresh drive to speed up care proceedings

Making best use of guardianships

Children to be removed from families as part of ‘randomised adoption trial'

Legal Update: Relationships with the court

ChildRIGHT Ask the Expert: Parental restrictions during contact time

Top judge Sir Nicholas Wall calls for better rights for unmarried couples

Family justice review seeks time limit for child protection cases in courts

Care applications reach new record high

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Changes to legal aid: education law

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