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Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

Social workers told to give ‘benefit of doubt' when assessing asylum seekers' age

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Social workers should "give the benefit of the doubt" to asylum seekers when deciding whether they are a child or an adult, children's services leaders have said.

Councils call for clarity over refugee support arrangements

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Council and children's services leaders are calling on the government to clarify how they will be supported to resettle 20,000 refugees, including unaccompanied children, from Syria.

Cameron: resettlement of child refugees 'a priority'

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Monday, September 7, 2015

| CYP Now

The UK will accept up to 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years, with vulnerable children and orphans being prioritised, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Government 'failing migrant children', charity claims

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Friday, August 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Thousands of migrant children entering the UK on their own are being failed by government because they are not getting long-term support, it has been claimed.

BASW to take on College of Social Work functions

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Thursday, August 20, 2015

| CYP Now

The British Association of Social Work (BASW) is to take on the majority of functions performed by The College of Social Work (TCSW) from next month, it has been announced.

Immigration centre slammed for holding pregnant women

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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

| CYP Now

An immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire has been criticised by the chief inspector of prisons after being found to have held nearly 100 pregnant women there despite the practice being against government policy.

Kent appeals for help to deal with surge in asylum-seeking children

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Friday, July 31, 2015

| CYP Now

Kent County Council is in talks with the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) about finding foster places for asylum-seeking children after numbers arriving in Dover doubled in the space of three months.

Families unnecessarily held at immigration removal centre, report finds

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Families and children held at an immigration removal centre could have been put up in a hotel instead, a report has found.

Lib Dems vow to bolster children's rights if elected

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's rights groups have welcomed the Liberal Democrats' manifesto pledge to enshrine the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into UK law.

Immigration detention splits children from one in six families

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

| CYP Now

Children in one in six families detained by the government for immigration purposes are being separated from their parents, it has emerged.

Human rights committee condemns government poverty record

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs have criticised the government for eroding the rights of vulnerable children, including child migrants and those living in poverty.

Child trafficking victims let down by legal aid cuts

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Friday, March 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Vulnerable children and families have been among the hardest hit by cuts to legal aid, according to a critical report by MPs.

Lords back legal advocates for child trafficking victims

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Thursday, February 26, 2015

| CYP Now

The House of Lords has backed amendments to the Modern Slavery Bill to increase the legal powers of advocates for child trafficking victims.

Child trafficking victims to get legal guardians

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's rights campaigners have welcomed last-minute changes to the Modern Slavery Bill to give advocates for child trafficking victims legal powers.

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Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

Social workers told to give ‘benefit of doubt' when assessing asylum seekers' age

Councils call for clarity over refugee support arrangements

Cameron: resettlement of child refugees 'a priority'

Government 'failing migrant children', charity claims

BASW to take on College of Social Work functions

Immigration centre slammed for holding pregnant women

Kent appeals for help to deal with surge in asylum-seeking children

Families unnecessarily held at immigration removal centre, report finds

Lib Dems vow to bolster children's rights if elected

Immigration detention splits children from one in six families

Human rights committee condemns government poverty record

Child trafficking victims let down by legal aid cuts

Lords back legal advocates for child trafficking victims

Child trafficking victims to get legal guardians

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