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

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 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.

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.

Daily roundup: Childcare training, education outcomes and Ofsted inspections

Other

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.

ADCS launches inquiry into the care system

News

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Directors of children's services have launched an inquiry into the purpose of the care system, as part of plans to radically improve provision for looked-after children across the country.

Adoptions dip sharply as issues over special guardianship orders emerge

Other

Monday, September 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Department for Education report points to link between a drop in adoptions in favour of SGOs, with unsuitable placements made because of a desire by family courts to place the child within the wider family.

Ofsted tells two councils to improve children's services

News

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

| CYP Now

Two councils have been told to improve standards within their children's services departments following inspections by Ofsted.

Health reforms 'ignore children in care'

News

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| CYP Now

The government's health reforms fail to recognise the needs of children in care and other vulnerable young people, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has warned.

Achievement against the odds

Features

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

| CYP Now

Looked-after children's educational performance trails far behind their peers. Jo Stephenson asks what role social workers can play to narrow the attainment gap.

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.

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.

Good Practice: How museums in Norfolk are reaching out to looked-after children

Best Practice

Monday, August 8, 2011

| CYP Now

A museum programme is helping vulnerable young people gain confidence, self-knowledge social skills

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.

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

News

Monday, June 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Charities working with children and young people have lost more than £150m of government funding in the past year, it has emerged.

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.

Peterborough contract collapse: key reasons and its implications

Analysis

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Seen as a blueprint for future charity and council partnerships to deliver children’s services, the £126m contract between Tact and Peterborough City Council has ended after just three years. Experts assess what can be learned.

Support boost for councils at risk of 'inadequate' Ofsted rating

News

Thursday, January 21, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils yet to have their children's services inspected by Ofsted are to be given additional support as part of a local government bid to prevent them being rated "inadequate" and facing intervention from the Department for Education (DfE).

Senior managers credited with drop in London care numbers

News

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

The number of looked-after children in London is falling because senior social work managers in the capital are actively pursuing other options such as kinship care, a report has found.

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.

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

CYP Now Children in Care Supplement 2014

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Daily roundup: Childcare training, education outcomes and Ofsted inspections

ADCS launches inquiry into the care system

Adoptions dip sharply as issues over special guardianship orders emerge

Ofsted tells two councils to improve children's services

Health reforms 'ignore children in care'

Achievement against the odds

CYP Now Children in Care Supplement 2013

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Good Practice: How museums in Norfolk are reaching out to looked-after children

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

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

Peterborough contract collapse: key reasons and its implications

Support boost for councils at risk of 'inadequate' Ofsted rating

Senior managers credited with drop in London care numbers

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

Clash over prioritising adoption

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