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Liberal Democrats pledge investment in disadvantaged children's education

Monday, June 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The Liberal Democrats have pledged a series of policies to narrow the attainment gap for disadvantaged children and boost educational opportunities for young people in their manifesto for the 2024 general election.

University scheme to support care leavers into nursing

News

Monday, May 20, 2024

| CYP Now

The University of Roehampton has launched a new programme designed to make healthcare careers accessible to young care leavers.

Young people: 'We are begging next government to improve children's services'

News

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

| CYP Now

Young people have told cross-party MPs in Westminster that they are "not asking, but begging" the next government to change the system around children's social care.

Secure homes need makeover

Analysis

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

| CYP Now

Government funding will boost secure children’s homes places but experts call for wholesale changes.

Call for greater involvement of children’s social care in local health plans

News

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

| CYP Now

A lack of joined up working with children’s social care and education settings is contributing to inconsistencies in addressing the needs of babies, children and young people in local health plans, according to research.

Recruit ‘parent champions’ to design child poverty busting measures, report urges

News

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

| CYP Now

Parents should be more involved in the design and delivery of services aimed at tackling ‘systemic’ child poverty in communities across the UK, a report is urging.

Government confirms existence of DoL orders expert group

News

Friday, January 5, 2024

| CYP Now

The government has confirmed it has established an expert group to tackle the recent sharp rise in the use of deprivation of liberty (DoL) orders for highly vulnerable children.

Children as young as 10 have low wellbeing over living costs, charity warns

News

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

| CYP Now

The cost-of-living crisis is impacting the wellbeing of children as young as 10 amid concerns over their family’s finances, a Children’s Society report is warning.

Ombudsman criticises council for respite care failures

News

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

| CYP Now

A third of families of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in South Gloucestershire have not been receiving the respite care they are entitled to, a local government and social care ombudsman (LGO) investigation has found.

King’s Speech 2023: Key points for children and young people and what was missed

News

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

| CYP Now

King Charles III has laid out the government’s plans for legislation impacting children and young people as part of his first King’s Speech as monarch.

Inspections Clinic: Homes for Disabled Children

Features

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

| CYP Now

Recommendations from a review of residential provision for children with disabilities include changes to regulation to prevent safeguarding concerns being missed, reports Jo Stephenson.

More families using informal lenders amid high inflation

News

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

| CYP Now

Families with children are six times more likely to have resorted to using informal lenders or loan sharks, analysis from Action for Children on the cost-of-living crisis finds.

Children’s charities facing long term supporter exodus, researchers find

News

Thursday, October 5, 2023

| CYP Now

Children’s charities are facing a long-term decline in popularity among their traditional supporters, leaving them battling to attract donations and support, researchers are warning.

Boost financial support for families to reduce ‘bed poverty’, government urged

News

Friday, September 29, 2023

| CYP Now

The government should renew funding for the Household Support Fund and end the two-child benefits cap to reduce the number of families unable to afford suitable beds for their children, Barnardo’s has said.

New local government and social care ombudsman announced

News

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

| CYP Now

A judge at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal has been announced as the new permanent local government and social care ombudsman (LGO).

Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training 2023/24

Features

Friday, September 1, 2023

| CYP Now

With many parts of the sector facing recruitment challenges, Joe Lepper identifies developments in entry-level requirements and ongoing professional development for children's services practitioners.

Inside CYP Now this month: Residential youth work, Care Review pilot, youth justice trends

News

Thursday, August 31, 2023

| CYP Now

The September edition of Children & Young People Now has all the latest news, views and analysis on the key issues affecting services for children, young people and families.

Lucy Letby inquiry must consider social worker role in multi-agency teams, says BASW

News

Thursday, August 24, 2023

| CYP Now

An inquiry into the Lucy Letby case must consider the "vital importance" of the children’s social worker role within multi-agency child protection teams amid concerns that hospital managers failed to act on reports from staff around the nurse's conduct, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has said.

Charity reveals ‘significant increase’ in child destitution

News

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

| CYP Now

Three in five children supported by frontline children’s workers are living in destitution, according to a survey.

Two child limit ‘pushing families into deep poverty’, campaigners warn

News

Thursday, April 6, 2023

| CYP Now

The government’s two child limit on additional benefits support is pushing families further into poverty, a report by campaigners is warning.

Budget 2023: Key announcements for children and young people

News

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

| CYP Now

Childcare reforms and support for struggling families are among a raft of measures announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt in his 2023 Budget.

Deprivation of liberty applications surpass previous annual total

News

Thursday, February 23, 2023

| CYP Now

The number deprivation of liberty (DoL) applications submitted to a specialist court overseeing the system in the first six months of it operating, has surpassed the total made the previous year, latest data shows.

Youth homelessness numbers rocket amid cost-of-living crisis

News

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

| CYP Now

Thousands more young people are homeless or at risk of homelessness amid the cost-of-living crisis, research has revealed.

Therapeutic Care: Policy context

Other

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| CYP Now

Therapeutic care has its roots in the post-war psychoanalytic movement that sought to understand the impact trauma has on children and young people and what support needs to be put in place to give them the best chance of recovering.