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County councils seek to innovate to tackle social care challenges

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Rising demand for care services and falling funding for early help has put huge pressure on county council budgets, forcing many areas to think creatively about how they can deliver more support for less money.

First youth mutuals prosper by extending reach and expertise

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

| CYP Now

Since taking on the running of youth work in Knowsley and Kensington and Chelsea, youth mutuals have increased income, maintained services and reduced overheads, but it has not been an easy transition, say those in charge.

Foundations to spur youth services

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Camden is latest to create a charitable foundation in a bid to increase capacity in voluntary youth provision.

Schools need proper scrutiny to guard against malpractice

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

One of the problems of democracy is that leaders have views on many issues, and citizens don't always agree with all of the policies of "their" party or their government. So, I find myself supporting the principle of the new national funding formula for schools while deeply opposing the academisation programme.

Skills For The Job: Paying the National Living Wage

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

The introduction of the living wage will have a major impact on nursery providers' business, which need to be well prepared for.

Safeguarding help for charities

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

| CYP Now

The voluntary sector can help to safeguard young people, but needs support and funding, says Sam Marks.

Five lessons for charities and ministers from the collapse of Kids Company

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

| CYP Now

The closure of Kids Company highlighted problems over the checks and balances used by government and charities to ensure public funding is spent well, from which the rest of the children's voluntary sector can learn.

Zika threat highlights need for public health investment

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

| CYP Now

In the first half of the 20th Century, polio became feared across the world.

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

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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.

Providers of children's centres look at new models to offset budget cuts

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

As local authority data reveals a doubling of cuts in spending on children's centres, forcing them to prioritise the protection of statutory functions, a DfE report suggests that councils' ability to do this is being stretched to the limit.

The implications of the Spending Review on services for children

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Measures announced in the Chancellor's Spending Review will result in core funding for councils falling 24 per cent in real terms over the next four years. How will this affect children, young people and their families?

Spending Review should usher in consolidation on many fronts

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

| CYP Now

So now we know for certain about the money.

Fighting for the frontline: Association of YOT Managers chair Gareth Jones

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett meets Gareth Jones, chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers.

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

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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.

'Baffling' DfE report raises fears over free childcare expansion

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Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

A Department for Education review has been unable to quantify the costs of providing childcare, prompting concerns from the early years sector that the planned expansion of the free entitlement will be underfunded.

A fair fee is critical to free childcare expansion

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Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

The past few weeks have seen mixed messages coming from the government over the expansion of the free childcare policy.

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

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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'

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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

Council announces plans to close majority of children's centres

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

| CYP Now

The majority of Oxfordshire's 44 children's centres will close under plans to save £8m from the local authority's children's services budget.

DfE sanctions urgent probe into children's services spending

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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.

ADCS Conference: President warns of funding crisis and ‘broken' Ofsted framework

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Friday, July 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services departments are facing a "looming crisis" because of funding cuts, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has warned.?

Social investment advocate: Joanne Hay, Teens and Toddlers chief executive

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes meets Joanne Hay, chief executive of Teens and Toddlers.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

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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

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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.

Research Report: Spending it Wisely - How Can Schools Use Their Resources to Help Poorer Pupils?

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

| CYP Now

This study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, used data from the National Pupil Database to investigate which children in schools benefit most from having money spent on them and which groups of children benefit from different types of spending.

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County councils seek to innovate to tackle social care challenges

First youth mutuals prosper by extending reach and expertise

Foundations to spur youth services

Schools need proper scrutiny to guard against malpractice

Skills For The Job: Paying the National Living Wage

Safeguarding help for charities

Five lessons for charities and ministers from the collapse of Kids Company

Zika threat highlights need for public health investment

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

Providers of children's centres look at new models to offset budget cuts

The implications of the Spending Review on services for children

Spending Review should usher in consolidation on many fronts

Fighting for the frontline: Association of YOT Managers chair Gareth Jones

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

'Baffling' DfE report raises fears over free childcare expansion

A fair fee is critical to free childcare expansion

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

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

Council announces plans to close majority of children's centres

DfE sanctions urgent probe into children's services spending

ADCS Conference: President warns of funding crisis and ‘broken' Ofsted framework

Social investment advocate: Joanne Hay, Teens and Toddlers chief executive

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

How charities can demonstrate social value to commissioners

Research Report: Spending it Wisely - How Can Schools Use Their Resources to Help Poorer Pupils?

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