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Children's home providers dismiss DCS calls to 'dismantle' private residential care market

Monday, August 2, 2021

| CYP Now

Dismantling or radically changing the existing independent residential care sector will do little to improve the quality or cost of provision, children's home providers have warned.

Proportion of privately run children’s homes up by 12 per cent, Ofsted figures show

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Monday, July 26, 2021

| CYP Now

The number of children’s homes run by private companies increased by 12 per cent in the year to March 2021, new analysis by Ofsted shows.

West Midlands taskforce aims to find foster families for children in residential care

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

| CYP Now

A regional taskforce in the West Midlands has been created to move vulnerable children in children’s homes into foster care.

Sector responds to report on government failings in children's social care

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

| CYP Now

The children's social care sector has welcomed the National Audit Office's (NAO) calls for government action to ensure vulnerable children are properly supported.

Council's children's services to receive entire social care top-up

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Monday, January 21, 2019

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A council is proposing to plough all of its social care windfall from government into children's services in a bid to stem rising numbers of children in care.

DfE announces drive to place more looked-after children in boarding schools

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

| CYP Now

More children in care are to be offered places at boarding schools as part of a new government drive, the Department for Education has announced.

Benchmark all children's services to improve standards, report urges

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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

| CYP Now

Data on all children's services provision currently on offer across England should be collected and made available to commissioners so they can make decisions based on what works best for vulnerable young people.

Social Work England to have power to limit duties

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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

| CYP Now

The new social work regulator will have the power to limit the types of work social workers can do and test them on their English skills, the government has confirmed.

Government vows to launch mental health check pilots later this year

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Friday, June 1, 2018

| CYP Now

Delayed trials of mental health assessments for children entering the care system will launch later this year, the government has pledged.

Longfield calls on councils to improve stability for children in care

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Thursday, May 31, 2018

| CYP Now

Children in care are being moved around too much, with the proportion who have experienced a change in school, home or social worker within a year all rising, the children's commissioner for England has warned.

Care improves life for two thirds of children, study finds

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

| CYP Now

Being taken into care improves the life chances of more than two thirds of children, a study has found.

Major rise in number of children in 'out-of-area' residential care

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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

| CYP Now

The number of looked-after children placed in residential care outside of their local area has increased by nearly two thirds over the last five years, figures obtained from the government have shown.

Children's home providers criticise 'misleading' DfE data on missing incidents

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

| CYP Now

Children's home providers have accused government of publishing "misleading" and "potentially incendiary" data about the number of children who go missing from residential care.

Troubled council to launch children's services trust in 2019

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

| CYP Now

A struggling council that a government report recommended be scrapped and replaced with two new unitary authorities is pushing ahead with plans to establish children's services to an independent trust in 12 months' time.

Doubts over future of DfE's £20m social care research centre

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

| CYP Now

The future of a delayed initiative to improve the quality of children's social care is in doubt, as there is no guarantee of ongoing government funding, documents reveal.

Government reveals more than 50,000 children's home 'missing incidents'

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

| CYP Now

Young people living in children's homes in England have been reported missing more than 50,000 times in the last three years - with the missing rate for individual children currently averaging nearly five times a year, it has emerged.

Children in care 'receiving less support', Ofsted finds

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Friday, April 6, 2018

| CYP Now

Children in care are receiving less support and do not feel as safe as in previous years, a study by Ofsted has found.

Children's services trust set to cost £4.6m

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

| CYP Now

The creation of an independent trust as part of efforts to improve children's services in Worcestershire will cost around £4.6m, it has emerged.

One in 10 children's homes providers face closure, study finds

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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

| CYP Now

One in 10 residential children's care providers are potentially facing insolvency because they are unable to meet the costs of "sleep-in" pay for staff, according to a survey.

Wood sets out priority areas in residential care reform

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Monday, March 12, 2018

| CYP Now

Government efforts to improve residential care will focus on just two areas until there is clarity about leadership arrangements across children's social care in its entirety, the man in charge of the reforms has said.

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Children's home providers dismiss DCS calls to 'dismantle' private residential care market

Proportion of privately run children’s homes up by 12 per cent, Ofsted figures show

West Midlands taskforce aims to find foster families for children in residential care

Sector responds to report on government failings in children's social care

Council's children's services to receive entire social care top-up

DfE announces drive to place more looked-after children in boarding schools

Benchmark all children's services to improve standards, report urges

Social Work England to have power to limit duties

Government vows to launch mental health check pilots later this year

Longfield calls on councils to improve stability for children in care

Care improves life for two thirds of children, study finds

Major rise in number of children in 'out-of-area' residential care

Children's home providers criticise 'misleading' DfE data on missing incidents

Troubled council to launch children's services trust in 2019

Doubts over future of DfE's £20m social care research centre

Government reveals more than 50,000 children's home 'missing incidents'

Children in care 'receiving less support', Ofsted finds

Children's services trust set to cost £4.6m

One in 10 children's homes providers face closure, study finds

Wood sets out priority areas in residential care reform

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