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B&B use for families rises again

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  • Friday, December 6, 2013
  • | CYP Now
The number of families forced to live in emergency bed and breakfast accommodation for more than six weeks has increased five-fold since the coalition government came to power, latest figures show.

Pelka report highlights practice and management failings

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  • Wednesday, February 5, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Poor social work practice and management combined with high caseloads at Coventry's children's services were factors in child protection systems failing to prevent the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka, a new review into his case has concluded.

Young people and communities hold the key to ending FGM

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  • Tuesday, March 3, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The issue of female genital mutilation (FGM) is climbing up the ladder of political priorities. The knowledge that there has not been a single successful prosecution since the FGM Act was introduced in 2003 is causing much soul-searching - in government, in the crown prosecution service and in local safeguarding boards across the country.

One in three areas fail children with special needs

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  • Wednesday, October 18, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Councils and health organisations in around a third of areas are failing to effectively support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), analysis by Ofsted and health watchdog the Care Quality Commission has revealed.

Major crackdown on FGM to launch in London

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  • Friday, April 11, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Women who are victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) are to be referred to children's social services and police as part of a pioneering project intended to prevent a further generation of girls being subjected to the abuse.

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