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Protect women in pre-birth care proceedings

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 20, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The number of newborn babies subject to care proceedings has more than doubled since 2007, and every year tens of thousands of women have involvement from children’s social care teams during pregnancy and early motherhood.

Legal Update: Family group conferences

Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford, head of impact and evaluation at Coram outline findings from an evaluation of the use of FGCs at the pre-proceedings stage.

Commissioning: Parent-infant relationship services

Dr Karen Bateson, clinical psychologist and Wook Hamilton, head of development at the Parent-Infant Foundation, outline how a new toolkit can help commissioners develop provision that enhances relationships between parents and young children.

Special Report on Early Help

    Features
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
With the Care Review finding a system increasingly geared towards ‘crisis intervention’, service leaders warn of an urgent need to shift focus to early help for children, young people and families.

Inspections Clinic: Multi-agency safeguarding

    Features
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
After a pandemic-induced hiatus, joint targeted area inspections are back. However, as Jo Stephenson reports, there are some key changes children’s services teams and practitioners need to understand.

We are the social work champions

    Features
  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Yorkshire and the Humber region’s Children’s Social Work Matters programme was set up 10 years ago to address workforce issues. Participants look at the key achievements and future challenges.

Machine learning in children’s services: does it work?

What Works for Children’s Social Care worked with four local authorities to develop models to predict eight outcomes for individual cases. The predictions all focused on a point within the children’s journey where the social worker would be making a decision about whether to intervene in a case or not and the level of intervention required, and looked ahead to see whether the case would escalate at a later point.

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