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Charity launches tool to track work with troubled families
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News
- Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | CYP Now
Family Action has developed a tool to help councils track their performance in supporting families through the Troubled Families programme.
Daily roundup: Youth work, parental leave, charity funding
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Other
- Monday, March 24, 2014 | CYP Now
Hospital youth workers could help girls trapped in gangs; quarter of dads take no parental leave, study finds; and warning for charities over fundraising methods, all in the news today.
Councils could save £150m on foster care services, says report
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- 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.
Behind the Inspection Rating: Structure change drives progress
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Best Practice
- Monday, September 14, 2015 | CYP Now
Kingston upon Thames Council - children's services inspection - May 2015
Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges
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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.
DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating
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News
- Monday, November 9, 2015 | CYP Now
A council has been given more time to turn services around in the wake of Ofsted judging its children's services department ‘inadequate' twice in two years.
Spending on early intervention faces 71 per cent cut
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News
- Tuesday, March 1, 2016 | CYP Now
Government funding for early help services is expected to be cut by 71 per cent, between 2010 and 2020, a study has found.
Effective Working with Neglected Children and their Families: Linking Interventions to Long-term Outcomes
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- Tuesday, June 11, 2013 | CYP Now
Authors Elaine Farmer and Eleanor Lutman;
Jessica Kingsley Publishers;
ISBN 978-1-84905-288-7;
£25;
240pp
County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services
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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.
Children's social worker vacancies soar
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News
- Thursday, February 26, 2015 | CYP Now
The number of vacant children's social worker posts has increased by nearly 20 per cent in a single year, latest government statistics show.
Study highlights postcode lottery of child health
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- Monday, September 7, 2015 | CYP Now
The health and development of children under five varies dramatically between different parts of England, with a child living in one area far more likely to be condemned to poor health than another living relatively close by, a study has found.
Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died
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- 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.
DfE: 'No link' between spending on children's social care and quality
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News
- Tuesday, January 12, 2016 | CYP Now
The Department for Education (DfE) has said there is no link between the amount of money spent on children's social care and the effectiveness of services.
Evaluating early intervention
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Other
- Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | CYP Now
Intervening early can prevent problems escalating and save money in the long term. But how do services demonstrate this? Joe Lepper asked a range of experts for advice on effective evaluation.
Violence at home: When children abuse their parents
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Other
- Tuesday, March 1, 2016 | CYP Now
Growing recognition of the problem of child-to-parent violence has prompted new government guidance. Eileen Fursland looks at a range of approaches designed to tackle this complex issue.
Ofsted awards first ‘outstanding' ratings for children's services
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News
- Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | CYP Now
Two local authorities have become the first to be awarded "outstanding" judgments under Ofsted's controversial inspection framework for children's services.
Ask the Experts: Retain a strong voice for children
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Other
- Tuesday, April 26, 2016 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on the future of DCSs, helping children of substance misusers, improving speech skills and conflict resolution.
Ask the Experts: Support academies to improve
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Other
- Tuesday, May 10, 2016 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on problem academies, whole-family assessments, supporting parents at nursery and a squatting protest.
Daily round up: Blackburn DCS drafted into Rochdale, Ofsted complaints, and profit-making schools
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Other
- Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | CYP Now
Rochdale appoints an interim head of children's social services, Ofsted is criticised over its new complaints framework, and a call for profit-making firms to take charge of the worst schools, all in the news today.
Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'
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- Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | CYP Now
Councils could save more than £32,000 for each troubled family they work with by providing services in a more effective way, a government report has claimed.
Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post
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News
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 | CYP Now
Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.
How support stops children from going into care
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Other
- Monday, June 22, 2015 | CYP Now
Project breaks the cycle of children being taken into care.
Early help must stem the flow of neglect cases to social care
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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.
Ofsted rates government-imposed children's services trust 'inadequate'
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- Friday, November 27, 2015 | CYP Now
An independent children's services trust that was established on government orders has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.
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