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Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

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.

DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating

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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.

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Police must be given greater discretion when dealing with children who share explicit pictures of themselves so that their future life chances are not harmed, a group of MPs and peers has said.

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

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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.

Government set to boost mental health services for children in care

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

| CYP Now

Support for children and young people in care who are experiencing mental health problems is set to be boosted after the government pledged to set out exactly what services they can expect to receive.

Children's home providers call for fee increases

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Placement fees paid by local authorities to children's homes providers must be increased if the sector is to cope with rising costs, it has been claimed.

Daily roundup: Paris Brown, youth funding and child protection

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Media pressure prompts youth PCC to quit, £10m boost for Northern Irish youth groups, and resignations at Sandwell after critical Ofsted, all in the news today.

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

Participation in Action: Children put their feelings to music to aid recovery

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Children who have witnessed domestic violence express themselves through music and song.

Government 'ignoring children's social care crisis'

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

| CYP Now

Council leaders and children's campaigners have criticised the government for failing to tackle the "children's social care crisis" as part of its legislative programme for the new parliament.

Kent urges all councils to place looked-after children closer to home

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

| CYP Now

Kent County Council has made a plea to all local authorities to place children in care closer to home, after revealing that 1,267 children are placed in Kent from other parts of the country.

'I'm an emotional guy', says ADCS president after social worker slur

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Friday, July 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Association of Directors of Children's Services president Alan Wood has said he did not intend to cause offence when he referred to some social workers as "crap".

Daily roundup: Parental rights, exam performance and age ratings

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

| CYP Now

The Prime Minister considers new parental rights for grandparents caring for children; new research suggests link between mothers' confidence during pregnancy and GCSE success; and the government announces plans to place age restrictions on music videos, all in the news today.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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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.

Emphasis on support under new children's home standards

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Friday, September 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's homes will be required to show how they support young people and respond to their wishes as part of ongoing government efforts to improve standards.

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Somerset County Council has announced it has terminated the contract of the interim director of children's services (DCS) for failing to deliver improvements at the struggling authority quickly enough.

Government reveals more than 50,000 children's home 'missing incidents'

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

| CYP Now

Young people living in children's homes in England have been reported missing more than 50,000 times in the last three years - with the missing rate for individual children currently averaging nearly five times a year, it has emerged.

Troubled council to launch children's services trust in 2019

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

| CYP Now

A struggling council that a government report recommended be scrapped and replaced with two new unitary authorities is pushing ahead with plans to establish children's services to an independent trust in 12 months' time.

Birmingham unveils strategy to tackle children's services failings

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Thursday, December 12, 2013

| CYP Now

Birmingham Council has announced plans to work more closely with other agencies responsible for safeguarding children in a bid to improve services.

One in seven children's social worker posts unfilled

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Friday, March 7, 2014

| CYP Now

More than 3,800 children's social workers are needed to fill vacancies across local authorities in England, figures published by the government have shown.

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