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More children of working parents living in poverty

News

Monday, February 10, 2020

| CYP Now

Four million children in the UK are now living in poverty with many coming from working families, a new report shows.

Why we changed careers to work with children

Features

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Many children’s and youth services are experiencing staffing shortages and need to recruit new blood. Tom de Castella explores why some people change career to work in the sector.

Worcestershire County Council

Best Practice

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

| CYP Now

Long-time struggling West Midlands council is the latest to transfer a range of children’s services to a council-owned company.

National safeguarding panel to review sudden infant deaths

News

Friday, October 18, 2019

| CYP Now

A review into sudden unexpected infant death in families where the children are considered at risk of harm will be conducted by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review, it has been announced.

Inspectors criticise SEND services in South Tyneside

News

Monday, September 16, 2019

| CYP Now

South Tyneside Borough Council has been heavily criticised by Ofsted for its slow pace of reform to services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) over the past five years.

Families 'still fighting for support' despite SEND reform

News

Monday, September 2, 2019

| CYP Now

Families are still not getting enough support for special educational needs and disabilities, according to a damning sector statement published to mark five years since the SEND reforms.

Families 'still fighting for support' despite SEND reform

News

Monday, September 2, 2019

| CYP Now

Families are still not getting enough support for special educational needs and disabilities, according to a damning sector statement published to mark five years since the SEND reforms.

Chancellor announces one-year budget round as Spending Review shelved due to Brexit

News

Friday, August 9, 2019

| CYP Now

The government is to undertake a one-year spending round for public services in 2020-21, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has announced.

Legal duty on public bodies to tackle knife crime together

News

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

| CYP Now

Public sector organisations will be legally bound to work together to tackle serious violence including knife crime under a new duty announced by the government.

Diabetes 'a safeguarding issue', finds serious case review

News

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

| CYP Now

?Public sector workers should be required to consider diabetes in children and young people as a safeguarding risk, a serious case review into the death of diabetic teenager has recommended.

'Ditch plans to cut health visitor workforce', urges union

News

Thursday, June 20, 2019

| CYP Now

Union bosses are urging Suffolk County Council to ditch plans to cut its health visiting workforce by 25 per cent as latest figures show health visitor numbers in England have hit a seven-year low.

Children with learning disabilities and mental health problems 'ping-ponged' around system

News

Thursday, June 20, 2019

| CYP Now

Young people with learning disabilities are struggling to find support for their mental health - despite being four times more likely than their peers to need help, new research has found.

Union to ballot health visitors on strike action

News

Monday, June 10, 2019

| CYP Now

Lincolnshire County Council has rejected claims that it has devalued health visitor responsibilities - ahead of the result a union ballot on strike action.

Network to promote ACE-aware policing in Wales gets £6.8m

News

Friday, May 24, 2019

| CYP Now

An initiative that uses intelligence on adverse childhood experiences (ACE) to support the police and youth justice agencies to provide early help to children and young people at risk of offending has been launched in Wales, backed by £6.87m from the Home Office.

One in three areas cutting early mental health help for children

News

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

| CYP Now

More than a third of local areas are cutting spending on early help for children and young people with mental health problems, according to analysis by the children's commissioner for England.

How Kent LSCB developed a national solution for recording child deaths

News

Friday, April 5, 2019

| CYP Now

A locally-developed digital solution for recording child deaths has been adopted nationally, with hopes that it will help prevent deaths in the future.

High Court backs Surrey Council over SEND funding challenge

News

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

| CYP Now

A group of parents have lost their high court challenge over £21m of potential cuts to special educational needs and disability (SEND) funding by Surrey County Council.

Call to tackle 'catastrophic' effect of domestic abuse on children

News

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

| CYP Now

Children affected by domestic abuse should be given priority for health support and school places, according to a report into the personal and financial cost of their experience.