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Daily roundup: Fuel poverty, sexual offences, and the benefit cap

Monday, January 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Families planning to cut down on food to cover heating costs; 20 per cent rise in sexual offences against children; and 33,000 now affected by government benefit cap, all in the news today.

Legal Update: Business and children's rights

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Kirsten Anderson, legal research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines a child's right to access a remedy for rights violations caused by transnational business operations.

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

| CYP Now

There is an "unhelpful" misperception among the media and public about the nature of out-of-authority placements for looked-after children, council care managers have said.

Legal Update: Protecting young social networkers

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Coram Children's Legal Centre's Awaz Raoof and Julie Latrille report on the findings of a study conducted by the NSPCC on the experiences of 11- and 12-year-olds on social networking sites.

Joint working model cuts safeguarding case delays

News

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Multi-agency safeguarding hubs (Mash) in London have nearly halved the amount of time it takes to deal with child protection referrals, according to new research.

Daily roundup: Child poverty, child protection and troubled families

Other

Monday, December 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Child poverty at lowest level for a generation, study finds; five-year-old taken into care for being overweight; and "turned around" troubled families in Sunderland don't get jobs, all in the news today.

Guardians maintain child contact levels, study suggests

News

Friday, November 29, 2013

| CYP Now

The amount of time children's guardians spend with children subject to care proceedings has not been adversely affected by the sustained and significant rise in care applications over the past decade, research suggests.

New figures show smaller rise in adoptions

News

Thursday, November 28, 2013

| CYP Now

The rise in the number of children adopted last year was not as high as previously thought, new data analysis suggests.

Daily roundup: Emotional abuse, Youth Parliament, and consent age

Other

Monday, November 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Police officers back efforts to make child emotional cruelty an offence; Youth Parliament sets its policy priorities for coming year; and political parties reject calls to cut age of sexual consent, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: homelessness, child abuse, and healthy eating

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Monday, November 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Long-term B&B use reaches decade-high; ex-DPP says professionals who fail to report child abuse should be prosecuted; and families cut back on healthy food due to cash shortage, all in the news today.

Call for national approach to pre-proceedings work

News

Friday, November 1, 2013

| CYP Now

A legal expert is calling for the introduction of a national approach for working with vulnerable families before care proceedings are launched.

Daily roundup: Apprenticeships, Baby Peter and legal aid

Other

Friday, November 1, 2013

| CYP Now

MPs to vote on Apprenticeships Bill; Baby Peter mother freed from prison; and union calls for Clegg to halt further legal aid cuts, all in the news today.

Children-in-need data indicates referrals decline

News

Friday, November 1, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of children-in-need referrals is at its lowest level for three years, according to latest government figures.

Legal Update: Court Report - Father appeals denial of contact

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Case name: M (Children) Case number (2013) EWCA Civ 1147

NCAS Conference: Pre-court work cuts care cases, study finds

News

Monday, October 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Pre-proceedings case work in six councils piloting new ways of dealing with care applications cut the number of cases going to court by a quarter, analysis has shown.

Charities develop support service for trafficked young males

News

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

| CYP Now

A peer support project for boys and young men who have been victims of human trafficking has been set up by Ecpat UK and the Children's Society.

Cafcass chief wary over recent fall in care applications

News

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

| CYP Now

The head of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has dampened hopes that a recent decrease in new care applications represents the start of a sustained fall in children needing protection.

Daily roundup: GP funding, private schools, and child protection

Other

Thursday, October 3, 2013

| CYP Now

GP funding drops under coalition, research suggests; Ofsted chief calls for more help from private schools; and new resources developed for hospital child protection work, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: alcohol misuse, child deaths, young offenders

Other

Monday, September 30, 2013

| CYP Now

Hospital admissions data reveals numbers of children abusing alcohol; research findings show higher death rates for children born to mothers aged under 30; and young offenders to pay for prison property damage, all in the news today.

Ofsted unveils inspection framework for children's services

News

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted is to push ahead with the introduction of a tougher inspection regime for children's services, ignoring warnings from the sector that the system is too simplistic and will fail to deliver improvements.

Daily roundup: Library closures, free childcare, and DNA swabs

Other

Monday, September 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's laureate criticises government failure to stop library closures; Labour outlines free childcare plans; and Welsh police have taken the DNA of 5,000 children, all in the news today.

U-turn on regulation of independent social work providers

News

Friday, September 20, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has backed down on plans not to regulate independent sector providers of local authority children's social services in England.

Trafficked children let down by system-wide support failures

News

Thursday, September 12, 2013

| CYP Now

Victims of child trafficking are being let down through "a culture of doubt and suspicion" across the justice and social care systems, according to a damning report by the Refugee Council and the Children's Society.

Social work leaders criticise landmark child protection ruling

News

Monday, September 9, 2013

| CYP Now

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has spoken out against a landmark legal ruling allowing a father to post a video of police and social workers removing his baby under an emergency protection order.

Legal Update: Treatment of trafficking victims

Other

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

| CYP Now

A recent case makes important rulings about the treatment of child trafficking victims in criminal cases, says Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager, at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

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Daily roundup: Fuel poverty, sexual offences, and the benefit cap

Legal Update: Business and children's rights

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

Legal Update: Protecting young social networkers

Joint working model cuts safeguarding case delays

Daily roundup: Child poverty, child protection and troubled families

Guardians maintain child contact levels, study suggests

New figures show smaller rise in adoptions

Daily roundup: Emotional abuse, Youth Parliament, and consent age

Daily roundup: homelessness, child abuse, and healthy eating

Call for national approach to pre-proceedings work

Daily roundup: Apprenticeships, Baby Peter and legal aid

Children-in-need data indicates referrals decline

Legal Update: Court Report - Father appeals denial of contact

NCAS Conference: Pre-court work cuts care cases, study finds

Charities develop support service for trafficked young males

Cafcass chief wary over recent fall in care applications

Daily roundup: GP funding, private schools, and child protection

Daily roundup: alcohol misuse, child deaths, young offenders

Ofsted unveils inspection framework for children's services

Daily roundup: Library closures, free childcare, and DNA swabs

U-turn on regulation of independent social work providers

Trafficked children let down by system-wide support failures

Social work leaders criticise landmark child protection ruling

Legal Update: Treatment of trafficking victims

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