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Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims

Thursday, February 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Wilshaw reveals he called for Ofsted chair to remain; leaving foster care age for young people in Wales raised; and £500,000 fund set up to help male victims of rape, all in the news today.

Doncaster's deliverer

Other

Monday, October 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett speaks to Paul Moffat, chief executive, Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

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

Other

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.

Ofsted calls for improvements at Bristol and Rochdale children's services

News

Friday, December 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Bristol and Rochdale have been told to improve the quality of services for children and young people following inspections by Ofsted.

Shared Services: Policy context

Other

Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

Defining what shared services are is vital to understand the approaches that work best in services for children and young people and whether there is scope for this to grow.

Councils could save £150m on foster care services, says report

News

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities would be able to save a total of £150m a year by improving the way they work with prospective foster parents, a report has claimed.

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.

Shared Services Briefing

Research

Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

This briefing highlights many of the issues facing councils, and asks whether ultimately, shared service arrangements and partnerships increase the likelihood of full mergers.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

News

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

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.

Editorial: Service integration breaks cycles of disadvantage

Other

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

News

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

| CYP Now

It is now one week since an independent report by Professor Alexis Jay estimated that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. CYP Now looks at what has happened since publication last Tuesday.

Research Report: Child Neglect is Everyone's Business: Achieving a Sense of Shared Responsibility

Other

Monday, April 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Researchers investigate how local authorities identify and intervene in child neglect cases.

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.

Ask the Experts: Address suspicions over legal highs

Best Practice

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on the dangers of legal highs, child protection changes, building a bug hotel and holding a winter bazaar.

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.

Warwickshire County Council: Local Spotlight

Best Practice

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Midlands authority has invested in the children’s workforce and early help services after “requires improvement” rating.

Ask the Experts: Run supportive training sessions

Other

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on delivering sensitive training, school place planning, bilingual nursery support and a bereaved young carer.

Youth Mental Health: New Economic Evidence

Research

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

Study of the economic impact of youth mental health services in the UK.

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

News

Thursday, September 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly 500 children in Manchester were potentially left at risk because social work assessments were not carried out quickly enough, a report that has rated the city's children's services as "inadequate", has found.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

News

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

Ask the Experts: Accessing mental health funding

Best Practice

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on mental health services funding, inappropriate sexual behaviour, safeguarding and a nursery compost heap.

Does Austerity Drive Public Service Innovation? Evidence From Shared Senior Management Teams in Local Government

Research

Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

The paper presents the results of an in-depth analysis of shared senior management teams (SMTs) in English district councils.

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.

Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

Features

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Joint targeted area inspections began in 2016 with the aim of bringing a range of inspectorates together to assess how health and care services for children are delivered. Jo Stephenson assesses the learning so far.

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Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims

Doncaster's deliverer

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

Ofsted calls for improvements at Bristol and Rochdale children's services

Shared Services: Policy context

Councils could save £150m on foster care services, says report

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

Shared Services Briefing

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died

Editorial: Service integration breaks cycles of disadvantage

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

Research Report: Child Neglect is Everyone's Business: Achieving a Sense of Shared Responsibility

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Ask the Experts: Address suspicions over legal highs

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

Warwickshire County Council: Local Spotlight

Ask the Experts: Run supportive training sessions

Youth Mental Health: New Economic Evidence

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

Slough children's services to become independent trust

Ask the Experts: Accessing mental health funding

Does Austerity Drive Public Service Innovation? Evidence From Shared Senior Management Teams in Local Government

Key steps that will improve play services for disabled children

Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

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