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Special Report: Residential Care

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Standards of residential child care have never been higher, but a shortage of provision and rising demand due to more traumatised children coming into the system is stretching local authority budgets to the limit.

Managing risk in children's homes

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Risk management is an important element of practice in children's homes. Here Ofsted's national director of social care Yvette Stanley tells Jo Stephenson about what the regulator is looking for from settings.

Forging Lifelong Links for children in care

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The Lifelong Links model being tested in England and Scotland aims to establish and rebuild key relationships for looked-after children. Jo Stephenson spoke to authorities trialling the approach.

Inspections Clinic: Inspecting stability

Ensuring looked-after children have a stable care placement, social worker and school place is vital to good outcomes, so Ofsted places great emphasis on stability when it inspects children's services, writes Jo Stephenson.

Rethinking care relationships

New families of looked-after children may experience varying levels of support depending on the legal order the child is under. It is time to end these discrepancies to ensure all get the right support.

Are children's home arrests a problem?

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The Howard League for Penal Reform is concerned that children in residential care are being criminalised unfairly, despite a report showing a fall in arrests. Experts debate if enough is being done to tackle the issue.

Special Report: Commissioning Care

Commissioners play a pivotal role in ensuring vulnerable children receive the care they need. However, demand and funding pressures are driving the development of new systems and changes in practice.

Residential care, Germany

The German economy is among the biggest in the world. The national unemployment rate stands at around five per cent, but there are significant variations between different areas, with jobless figures higher in eastern Germany.

Mulberry Bush: Building the Burrow

Residential special school Mulberry Bush is opening a new year-round unit to care for children who do not have families to return to during school holidays. Tom de Castella visits the specialist facility.

The Mulberry Bush School

Residential school that caters for troubled children has introduced methods that focus on helping children express their feelings and come to terms with past trauma.

No Wrong Door

North Yorkshire Council creates children's home "hubs", offering specialist professionals, outreach work, foster care and supported accommodation.

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