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Social work set free to innovate

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  • Tuesday, June 21, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire are among the authorities chosen to take part in the Partners in Practice programme to transform children's social care. Eileen Fursland finds out about their plans.

Social Media and E-professionalism in Child Welfare: Policy and Practice

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  • Tuesday, March 27, 2018
  • | CYP Now
This article reports that, in the United States, there is little guidance for managers and policymakers about how child welfare workers should search for or communicate with clients via social media. It offers a number of considerations for standards of e-professionalism. As well as the journal article, this summary draws on relevant guidance and frameworks from the UK.

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

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  • Wednesday, February 4, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Nearly six months since professor Alexis Jay's report revealed the extent of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, the government's troubled families tsar Louise Casey's has pulled no punches in her assessment of how the authority has fared since.

Shared Services: Policy context

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  • 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.

ADCS calls for Ofsted workforce shake-up

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  • Friday, October 31, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Ofsted must recruit existing children's services professionals to inspect local authority social care arrangements if it is to boost confidence in its judgments, the head of the Association of Directors of children's Services (ADCS) has said.