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The optimum place

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
    • | CYP Now
As the number of children in care continues to rise, Joe Lepper examines how commissioners are juggling the perennial challenge of placing children according to their needs at reasonable cost.

Government awards £16m to 'life chances' projects

    News
  • Wednesday, October 18, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Projects supporting children in care and families blighted by drug and alcohol dependency are to benefit from the first wave of investment from an £80m government fund that links payments to improved outcomes.

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

    News
  • Friday, January 15, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been criticised for denigrating foster care with comments she made as the government launched a bid to reverse a sharp drop in adoptions.

Care applications continue to soar

    News
  • Wednesday, August 12, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Numbers of court applications being made for children to be taken into care are continuing to soar, with latest figures showing a 14 per cent increase compared with last year.

Scotland raises leaving care age to 21

    News
  • Wednesday, April 1, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Young people in Scotland who are in residential care, foster care, or kinship care will be able to remain in their placement up until the age of 21 as a result of landmark legislation.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

    News
  • Wednesday, October 8, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

Children's social workers face knowledge test

    News
  • 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.

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