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Six reasons Care Review reforms need strengthening to succeed

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Evidence from key sector organisations to education committee inquiry on the government’s social care strategy calls for profit-making to be removed from the care sector and more rights for care leavers.

Sector recruitment challenges key barrier to safeguarding children, report warns

News

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Recruitment and retention challenges across services working with families is a key barrier to safeguarding vulnerable children, a major report warns.

Annual spending by councils on private children’s home placements soars

News

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on private residential care placements for children has increased by almost a quarter over the last year, latest government figures show.

Research reveals trends in child social care demand and outcomes

Analysis

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

An analysis of more than three million social care assessments in England has uncovered trends in demand and links to outcomes for vulnerable children which, researchers say, could help councils to better understand local population challenges and adapt service provision accordingly.

Judge highlights ‘gargantuan’ challenges in finding suitable welfare placements

News

Monday, January 29, 2024

| CYP Now

A High Court judge has criticised “insurmountable challenges” in securing care placements for teenagers with complex mental health needs after a 14-year-old girl, who was deprived of her liberty, was forced to live in a hospital side room for at least six weeks before being placed in an unregistered setting.

Councils still face ‘difficult decisions’ despite children’s services funding boost

News

Thursday, January 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority and children's services leaders have welcomed a £600m government funding boost to relieve pressure for support services but say it "does not negate the need for a sufficient long term funding settlement for children".

Child refugees wrongly assessed as adults facing abuse and exploitation, charities warn

News

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

| CYP Now

Child refugees are being wrongly assessed as adults and are facing abuse, harassment, and exploitation after being placed in adult hotels and detention facilities, a group of charities is warning.

NCB launches evaluation of Care Review reforms

News

Thursday, January 18, 2024

| CYP Now

The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) has partnered with economists to deliver a five-year evaluation of reforms to children’s social care.

Worcestershire Council to resume in-house control of children’s services

News

Thursday, January 18, 2024

| CYP Now

Worcestershire County Council is to close a company it was ordered by the government to set up to run children’s services in the area.

Praise for council’s care leaver support package

News

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Durham County Council’s children’s services department has been praised over its support for young people leaving care.

Sexual exploitation review finds child protection failings at Rochdale Council

News

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Rochdale Council and police failed to protect children at risk of sexual exploitation in the Greater Manchester town more than a decade ago, an independent review has found.

Three in four councils appeal for more support to reunite families, survey finds

News

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Councils are calling on the government for support to help them reunite children with their families and reduce local authorities’ children in care costs, according to a survey.

Children's homes 'reluctant' to accept children with complex needs, Ofsted reports

News

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

| CYP Now

More than nine in 10 local authorities struggle to find homes for children with complex needs, warns a report by Ofsted, highlighting a reluctance by homes to accept such referrals as a key factor behind the issue.

Ofsted criticises council over 'unsuitable' placements for care leavers

News

Monday, January 15, 2024

| CYP Now

Staffordshire County Council’s children’s services have been downgraded by Ofsted due in part to concerns over its care leaver offer, including the placement of young people in "unsuitable short-term accommodation".

Major expansion of family court reporting pilot announced

News

Friday, January 12, 2024

| CYP Now

Media reporting of family proceedings is to be extended to a further 16 courts in England as part of an expansion of a pilot scheme aiming to increase transparency of the family justice system.

Child sexual offences remain ‘close to record levels’, NSPCC figures show

News

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The number of child sexual offences being recorded by police has fallen slightly over the last year, but remains “close to record levels”, according to analysis by the NSPCC.

Recruit ‘parent champions’ to design child poverty busting measures, report urges

News

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

| CYP Now

Parents should be more involved in the design and delivery of services aimed at tackling ‘systemic’ child poverty in communities across the UK, a report is urging.

Welsh councils launch foster carer recruitment campaign

News

Monday, January 8, 2024

| CYP Now

A network of Welsh local authority fostering teams have launched a campaign to recruit more foster carers as part of the national drive to remove commercial providers from the social care sector.

Government confirms existence of DoL orders expert group

News

Friday, January 5, 2024

| CYP Now

The government has confirmed it has established an expert group to tackle the recent sharp rise in the use of deprivation of liberty (DoL) orders for highly vulnerable children.

The value of safety planning

Features

Thursday, January 4, 2024

| CYP Now

Dr Carlene Firmin has highlighted the complex challenges practitioners face when supporting children and young people affected by extra-familial harm through her development of contextual safeguarding since 2016.

Promoting private fostering

Features

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

Clare Seth, CoramBAAF kinship care consultant, on how to raise awareness of private fostering.

Statutory guidance gives us ‘permission’ to practice

Opinion

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

A line by poet Oliver Wendell Holmes – “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions” – feels apt when considering the guidance that governs local authority functions and responsibilities to vulnerable children and families.

Practice panel: Tackling harmful sexual behaviour among children

Analysis

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

CYP Now convened a webinar for experts to discuss the difficult topic of harmful sexual behaviour among children with a view to helping improve practitioners’ skills during assessment and delivering support.

Care-experienced children in Reading share their views to break down barriers

Best Practice

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

Brighter Futures for Children’s Care2Listen group has won the participation prize at the A National Voice Awards after encouraging looked-after children to share their views.

Inspections Clinic - social care provision

Features

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

Ofsted’s latest annual report highlights improving standards across children’s social care but raises concerns about increasing numbers of children in unregistered provision, reports Jo Stephenson.

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