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Daily roundup: Underage drinking, Universal Credit concerns, children's diets

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

| CYP Now

Call for alcohol ban for under-18s; Universal Credit "will not help most families", and children recommended to eat adult meals, all in the news today.

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

News

Friday, June 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

Legal Update: Court Report - Mother appeals adoption order

Other

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

| CYP Now

Case name: Re R (a child) Case number (2014) EWCA Civ 1625

CYP Now Children in Care Supplement 2013

Other

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Providing a chance to thrive: How to secure the best outcomes for looked-after children against the backdrop of reduced budgets and rising demand.

Daily roundup: Missing babies, nurture groups, and play

Other

Monday, June 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly 20 babies reported missing from council care; research backs value of nurture groups; and £1.9m boost for play in Scotland, all in the news today.

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.

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).

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.

Daily roundup: Care applications data, sex offenders' register and age of consent

News

Thursday, May 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Care applications up 70 per cent; changes to sex offenders' register rules condemned, and barrister's age of consent comments dismissed as "outdated", all in the news today.

Use of expert witnesses in family courts is on the slide, finds Cafcass

News

Thursday, June 6, 2013

| CYP Now

The use of expert witnesses in care proceedings cases, particularly independent social workers, has fallen radically over the last three years.

Daily roundup: Outstanding schools, Teather quits, and foster carers

Other

Monday, September 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Three out of four schools now judged as good or outstanding; former children's minister to step down as MP; and foster care myths exposed, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Praise for Lambeth Council, sports coaching and primary school places

Other

Monday, July 23, 2012

| CYP Now

A letter from the children's minister to Lambeth, the effect of child protection on sports coaching and plans to deal with the population boom, all in today's news roundup.

Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

News

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

| CYP Now

The body set up to oversee the adoption system has issued guidance in an effort to halt a sharp slump in the number of court orders being made for children to be adopted.

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

News

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

Clash over prioritising adoption

Analysis

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Minister’s call for councils to prioritise adoption over other forms of care branded "perplexing" by experts.

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

News

Friday, January 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been criticised for denigrating foster care with comments she made as the government launched a bid to reverse a sharp drop in adoptions.

Legal Update: Cultural matching in foster care

Features

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Reports of a child being placed with "inappropriate" foster carers spark fears that placement options for children could be more limited.

Legal Update: Court Report - Special guardianship and adoption orders

Other

Monday, May 26, 2014

| CYP Now

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Daily roundup: Underage drinking, Universal Credit concerns, children's diets

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Legal Update: Court Report - Mother appeals adoption order

CYP Now Children in Care Supplement 2013

Daily roundup: Missing babies, nurture groups, and play

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

DfE tightens up special guardianship rules

Making best use of guardianships

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

Daily roundup: Care applications data, sex offenders' register and age of consent

Use of expert witnesses in family courts is on the slide, finds Cafcass

Daily roundup: Outstanding schools, Teather quits, and foster carers

Daily roundup: Praise for Lambeth Council, sports coaching and primary school places

Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

Clash over prioritising adoption

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

Legal Update: Cultural matching in foster care

Legal Update: Court Report - Special guardianship and adoption orders

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