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Early adopters set out the key features of children’s trusts

    Analysis
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
    • | CYP Now
When it launched its children’s social care reform programme nearly five years ago, the Department for Education expressed an ambition that a third of councils should be in the process of handing responsibility for services to a children’s trust, or had completed the process, by 2020.

Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Joint targeted area inspections began in 2016 with the aim of bringing a range of inspectorates together to assess how health and care services for children are delivered. Jo Stephenson assesses the learning so far.

Child safeguarding: leaders' debate

    Other
  • Tuesday, May 28, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Children's services leaders from councils across England discussed the current challenges of safeguarding children at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with 4Children. Ravi Chandiramani reports

Editorial: Outsourcing proposals could benefit charities

    Other
  • Tuesday, May 13, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The announcement last month of the consultation into the widescale outsourcing of children's services would have surprised few in the sector. Controversial though it may be, the government has been laying the groundwork for the creation of a children's social care "market" for the past year. But although the direction of travel has been clear for some time, the ramifications of such a move are only now starting to be thought through.

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The government's consultation over allowing councils to delegate children's social care services to third parties was insufficient and needs further debate, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on child protection has said.

Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

    News
  • Thursday, August 21, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The cost of supporting children in care has reached £3.4bn, according to an Audit Commission report that exposes widespread variation of spending across councils.

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