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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.
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.
Daily roundup: Youth unemployment, child obesity and violence against girls
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- Monday, March 10, 2014 | CYP Now
Chamber of Commerce warning on youth unemployment figures; fraction of public health spending goes on child obesity; and government launches action plan to tackle violence against females, all in the news today.
ADCS Conference: President warns of funding crisis and ‘broken' Ofsted framework
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- Friday, July 10, 2015 | CYP Now
Children's services departments are facing a "looming crisis" because of funding cuts, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has warned.?
Skills for the Job: How to manage agency staff
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- Monday, July 20, 2015 | CYP Now
With more agency workers being employed in children's services, managing this growing part of the workforce well is vital.
Ask the Experts: Making guardianship orders work
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- Monday, August 3, 2015 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on guardianship orders, dealing with bereavement, restructures at work and complaints about youth activities.
Good practices identified by Ofsted's tough single inspection framework
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- Monday, August 31, 2015 | CYP Now
As Ofsted figures reveal that only 14 of 59 children's social care services assessed under the single inspection framework were rated as "good", CYP Now looks at three local authorities that have impressed inspectors.
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.
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?
A serene setting to address harmful sexual behaviour
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- Tuesday, July 19, 2016 | CYP Now
Glebe House is a residential home providing therapeutic care for young people who display harmful sexual behaviour. Emily Rogers visits staff and residents to find out more about the setting's approach.
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.
Trafford sets agenda for integration of children's care and health services
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2016 | CYP Now
Having outsourced day-to-day management of its children's services to an NHS trust, Trafford Council plans to become the first area to fully integrate social care and community health services for children and adults.
Editorial: Service integration breaks cycles of disadvantage
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2016 | CYP Now
Ask the Experts: Support academies to improve
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- Tuesday, May 10, 2016 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on problem academies, whole-family assessments, supporting parents at nursery and a squatting protest.
DfE data shows funding shift from universal to targeted services
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- Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | CYP Now
Latest local authority spending figures suggest that early intervention is being sacrificed to fund statutory services as children's departments grapple with making a dwindling pot of money stretch further.
Daily roundup: Social action, sexting, and council cuts
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- Wednesday, November 6, 2013 | CYP Now
Postcode lottery for volunteering opportunities; prevalence of sexting highlighted; and Nottinghamshire Council outlines plans to cut children's services, all in the news today.
Daily round up: Blackburn DCS drafted into Rochdale, Ofsted complaints, and profit-making schools
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- Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | CYP Now
Rochdale appoints an interim head of children's social services, Ofsted is criticised over its new complaints framework, and a call for profit-making firms to take charge of the worst schools, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Truancy convictions, TV, and Birmingham cuts
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- Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | CYP Now
A large rise in parental truancy convictions, cancer concerns for children who watch too much telly, and criticism over a cuts consultation in Birmingham, all in the news today.
Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'
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- Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | CYP Now
Councils could save more than £32,000 for each troubled family they work with by providing services in a more effective way, a government report has claimed.
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