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Social Work England to have power to limit duties

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.

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.