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Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

The cost of supporting children in care has reached £3.4bn, according to an Audit Commission report that exposes widespread variation of spending across councils.

Children's social workers face knowledge test

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

| CYP Now

New children's social workers will have to pass a test of their knowledge in order to become an approved practitioner as part of government attempts to improve the quality of the profession, it has been announced.

Ofsted criticises Knowsley's 'inadequate' child protection services

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Children in Knowsley are being left at risk of harm due to serious failures in child protection services, a damning Ofsted report which labelled the authority "inadequate" has found.

Daily roundup: Childcare training, education outcomes and Ofsted inspections

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Monday, June 30, 2014

| CYP Now

Early years bursary scheme funds a handful of applicants; gifted poor children less likely than affluent peers to attend top universities; and Bournemouth children's services requires improvement says Ofsted, all in the news today.

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

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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.

Ofsted figures reveal extent of out-of-area placements

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Friday, June 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Around one in five local authorities have looked-after children living there from 40 or more other council areas, new figures show.

CYP Now Children in Care Supplement 2014

Other

Friday, May 30, 2014

| CYP Now

Policy and practice: How to support looked-after children to lead healthy, fulfilling lives, and implement recent policy reforms.

Ofsted finds serious child protection failings in Slough

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Monday, February 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Slough have been rated as inadequate after Ofsted inspectors found serious weaknesses in its child protection work.

Tougher Ofsted inspection finds Hillingdon ‘requires improvement'

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

| CYP Now

The London Borough of Hillingdon has become the first council to be told that its child protection and care services must be improved under Ofsted's tougher new inspection framework.

U-turn over approval process for long-distance care placements

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

| CYP Now

Directors of children's services (DCSs) will not have to personally approve care placements outside of their authority or region after initial plans to do so were watered down.

Alison O'Sullivan to be ADCS president in 2015

News

Thursday, January 2, 2014

| CYP Now

The head of children's services for Kirklees has been announced as the vice president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services for 2014/15.

Government reluctant to raise leaving care age

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Friday, December 20, 2013

| CYP Now

The government will not consider raising the leaving age for children in residential care to 21 until standards have improved, Education Secretary Michael Gove has said.

Daily roundup: Childcare funding, child abduction and Birmingham social work

Other

Thursday, December 12, 2013

| CYP Now

Labour considers "big" childcare offer at next election; parental child abduction cases on the rise; and councillor hopeful for future of Birmingham social work services, all in the news today.

Voluntary post-18 fostering is failing, says charity

News

Friday, September 27, 2013

| CYP Now

The Fostering Network has said the government's voluntary approach to providing foster care for young people beyond the age of 18 is not working.

Ofsted unveils inspection framework for children's services

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted is to push ahead with the introduction of a tougher inspection regime for children's services, ignoring warnings from the sector that the system is too simplistic and will fail to deliver improvements.

Daily roundup: Sexual exploitation, youth unemployment and children's centres

Other

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Government's response on child sexual exploitation criticised; small rise in youth unemployment; and minister plays down significance of children's centre closures, all in the news today.

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.

Associations criticise care placement decision making

News

Thursday, May 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Independent foster care and children's home bodies have come together to call on local authorities to use third sector providers to reduce inappropriate care placements.

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

| CYP Now

A greater emphasis must be placed on relationships for children in care rather than the type of placement option, an inquiry by eight charities has found.

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

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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.

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