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Investment partners
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- Monday, June 25, 2012 | CYP Now
Community budgets pool money across different areas to create local services that are more efficient and responsive to need. Tristan Donovan looks at how they could transform services for children and families
Children and families directorate slashed
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- Thursday, March 15, 2012 | CYP Now
The Department for Education's children, young people and families directorate will receive a 13 per cent blow to its budget in 2012/13 and lose 106 full-time posts, an email leaked to CYP Now has revealed.
Research Report: PICANet: A Decade of Data
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- Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | CYP Now
Published by Paediatric Intensive Care Auditing Network, University of Leeds and University of Leicester, September 2014
Ask the Experts: Stand up for young people's rights
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- Tuesday, January 6, 2015 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on helping young people accused of theft, CSE prevention, improving resilience and clearing nursery clutter.
Editorial: Cuts to council funding create a fool's economy
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- Tuesday, January 6, 2015 | CYP Now
There was little festive cheer in the draft local government funding settlement for 2015/16 delivered by ministers just before the Christmas break.
Skills for the Job: Effective time management
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2015 | CYP Now
Good time management in children's services is essential for busy children's professionals to maximise their effectiveness.
'Wilful neglect' proposals raise fears over damage to social work
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- Tuesday, March 17, 2015 | CYP Now
Children's services leaders say the government's plans to extend wilful neglect sanctions of up to five years in prison to social care and education professionals will harm joint working and deter many entering the sector.
VCS grants scheme prioritises mental health services
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- Wednesday, March 25, 2015 | CYP Now
Mental health services have benefited to the tune of £4.9m as part of £25m of government grants announced today.
Guide to supporting deaf children
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- Monday, May 11, 2015 | CYP Now
Chris Kang-Mullen explains what councils need to do to meet their duties to support deaf children.
Ask the Experts: Developing projects for all ages
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- Monday, June 22, 2015 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on inter-generational programmes, handling donations, compromising situations and the importance of drawing.
Councils and charities absorb the impact of Whitehall spending cuts
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- Monday, June 22, 2015 | CYP Now
Recent cuts to government department budgets look set to be the start of a new round of austerity in public sector spending. Three experts outline the impact these cuts will have and offer ideas on how the effect can be minimised.
Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection
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- Tuesday, June 23, 2015 | CYP Now
More local authority children's services departments will be taken out of council control in order to tackle failure, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
Councils to receive £30m to speed up adoptions
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- Monday, July 6, 2015 | CYP Now
The government is to give councils £30m to encourage them to place children with adoptive parents outside their area.
Children's commissioner sets out her priorities for improving young lives
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- Monday, July 6, 2015 | CYP Now
Anne Longfield outlines her plans to shape the policy agenda in five key areas including children's use of the internet, tackling child abuse, overcoming inequalities, looked-after children and better cross-government working.
Former ADCS president Alan Wood to retire
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- Tuesday, October 27, 2015 | CYP Now
Former president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) Alan Wood will retire from his post in Hackney at the end of the year, it has been announced.
Commissioner calls for action to tackle in-family child sex abuse
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- Tuesday, November 24, 2015 | CYP Now
Analysis by the Children's Commissioner for England concludes that many cases of child sexual abuse go unreported because children's professionals struggle to recognise and act on the signs of in-family abuse.
CYP Now's top 10 stories of 2015
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- Tuesday, December 22, 2015 | CYP Now
With a general election, new policy announcements, ongoing austerity measures and high-profile charity closures, 2015 was another busy year in the children and young people sector. Here is a rundown of the most-read stories published on the CYP Now website over the past 12 months.
Technology in Children's Services: Policy context
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- Tuesday, March 31, 2020 | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.
Councils face increased pressure to respond to child refugee crisis
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- Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | CYP Now
Kent Council is struggling to cope with a major rise in the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children it is caring for, to the point where the government is preparing to force other authorities to share the burden.
Ofsted tells two councils to improve children's services
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- Wednesday, January 20, 2016 | CYP Now
Two councils have been told to improve standards within their children's services departments following inspections by Ofsted.
Information sharing is the key to success of alternative provision
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- Tuesday, March 1, 2016 | CYP Now
An Ofsted report highlights the importance of schools and councils sharing information about excluded pupils with alternative providers, but experts warn the fragmentation of the education system has made this more difficult.
The future of children's services: proactive, predictive and digital
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- Tuesday, March 15, 2016 | CYP Now
If children's services are to deliver improved outcomes with declining resources, the sector must embrace technology, joint working and volunteers, says Pillars and Foundations, a radical paper from the ADCS.
Voice for the vulnerable: Carolyne Willow, director of Article 39
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- Tuesday, March 15, 2016 | CYP Now
Jess Brown meets Carolyne Willow, director of Article 39.
Rising numbers in child protection system 'down to cuts', MPs told
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- Wednesday, March 23, 2016 | CYP Now
Numbers of children entering the child protection system are on the rise because services designed to help them stay with their families are being "decimated", MPs have been told.
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