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Youth sector unites to prove worth
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- Tuesday, February 2, 2016 | CYP Now
More joint working by providers will improve outcomes for young people, say youth sector leaders.
Evaluating early intervention
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- Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | CYP Now
Intervening early can prevent problems escalating and save money in the long term. But how do services demonstrate this? Joe Lepper asked a range of experts for advice on effective evaluation.
Children's centres review is needed now before it's too late
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- Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | CYP Now
The government's much vaunted consultation on the future of children's centres has been delayed - following its proclamation by the childcare minister back in July.
Ask the Experts: Be smart on your return to work
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- Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | CYP Now
Our expert panel offers advice on returning to work after absence, effective nursery websites, personal boundaries and young refugees.
Academy evangelist: Clive Webster, Kent Catholic Schools Partnership chief executive
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- Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | CYP Now
Derren Hayes meets Clive Webster, chief executive of the Kent Catholic Schools Partnership.
Good Idea: Council tax exemption reduces care leaver debts
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
A council has made changes to its tax policies to help care leavers transition to independent living by reducing the burden of debt.
Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
CYP Now has collected the views of children's services experts from a range of backgrounds to hear what they think the key challenges and opportunities will be in 2016 across services for children, young people and families.
Providers of children's centres look at new models to offset budget cuts
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
As local authority data reveals a doubling of cuts in spending on children's centres, forcing them to prioritise the protection of statutory functions, a DfE report suggests that councils' ability to do this is being stretched to the limit.
Failing local authorities warned: ‘improve or face intervention'
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
Ministers give "inadequate" children's services departments six months to improve or face having social care removed; plans for improvement bodies also unveiled alongside review of safeguarding boards.
The implications of the Spending Review on services for children
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- Tuesday, December 8, 2015 | CYP Now
Measures announced in the Chancellor's Spending Review will result in core funding for councils falling 24 per cent in real terms over the next four years. How will this affect children, young people and their families?
Good Idea: College prepares young people for armed forces
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- Tuesday, December 8, 2015 | CYP Now
A specialist training college aimed at helping young people get fit and ready for careers in the armed forces and public service sector has set up its first London base.
Spending Review should usher in consolidation on many fronts
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- Tuesday, December 8, 2015 | CYP Now
So now we know for certain about the money.
Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died
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- Friday, November 27, 2015 | CYP Now
A children's services department that was providing support for three vulnerable children who died in the space of a month has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.
Fighting for the frontline: Association of YOT Managers chair Gareth Jones
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- Tuesday, November 24, 2015 | CYP Now
Neil Puffett meets Gareth Jones, chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers.
Putting children's rights at the heart of services for children
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- Tuesday, November 24, 2015 | CYP Now
A Unicef UK programme is helping five councils change how they deliver and commission a range of children's services by redesigning them using the principles that underpin the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Signs of progress in Doncaster
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- Tuesday, November 24, 2015 | CYP Now
Head of Doncaster's children's trust says improvements have been made, but warns it is not "out of the woods".
Children in Care: Policy and Practice
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- Tuesday, November 24, 2015 | CYP Now
Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.
Early help must stem the flow of neglect cases to social care
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- Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | CYP Now
With the number of children on child protection plans due to neglect on the rise, research by the NSPCC suggests a lack of understanding is resulting in universal services referring some cases that could be managed with early help.
Collaboration call for youth sector
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- Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | CYP Now
Leading youth organisations want to see closer working between youth services providers and other sectors.
Ask the Experts: Accessing mental health funding
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- Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on mental health services funding, inappropriate sexual behaviour, safeguarding and a nursery compost heap.
Architect of inspection: Jacky Tiotto, director of children's services, Bexley
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- Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | CYP Now
Derren Hayes meets Jacky Tiotto, director of children's services at Bexley Council.
Skills for the Job: Improving a struggling nursery
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- Tuesday, October 27, 2015 | CYP Now
Running a nursery is not easy, so when problems arise such as an unseasonal fall in occupancy, prompt action to tackle them is vital.
Behind the Inspection Rating: Play club makes wishes come true
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- Tuesday, October 27, 2015 | CYP Now
Y-Kids Redhill, Surrey - play scheme inspection - August 2015
Ask the Experts: Address suspicions over legal highs
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- Tuesday, October 27, 2015 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on the dangers of legal highs, child protection changes, building a bug hotel and holding a winter bazaar.