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Local Spotlight: Lambeth Council

Best Practice

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

| CYP Now

Corporate commitment to boosting children and young people’s outcomes helps south London borough get back on track.

Local spotlight: Haringey Council

Best Practice

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Borough with a foot in both inner and outer London has improved outcomes thanks to its positive workplace culture.

County councils seek to innovate to tackle social care challenges

Analysis

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Rising demand for care services and falling funding for early help has put huge pressure on county council budgets, forcing many areas to think creatively about how they can deliver more support for less money.

Interview: Peter O’Hara, health and social care technology entrepreneur

Features

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes speaks to the health and social care technology entrepreneur.

Better assessments key to the right support

Opinion

Thursday, May 25, 2023

| CYP Now

The care system should support children and young people to secure permanence without delay when they can’t live safely with their birth families.

Local Spotlight: Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| CYP Now

North West borough has plans to transform children's social care but a shortage of permanent practitioners remains a problem.

Sustainable Services: Special Report

Features

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

| CYP Now

‘Eco anxiety’ among young people is rising prompting many to protest over inaction by policymakers. Initiatives are now being developed across children’s services to be more environmentally sustainable.

Birmingham Children’s Trust: Three years in

Features

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Following a decade of poor performance, England’s largest children’s services department moved to a trust model in 2018. Charlotte Goddard speaks to key people about whether the move has paid off.

Peterborough City Council: Local Spotlight

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

| CYP Now

Children’s services in prosperous commuter city are rated ‘good’, but young people face health and social challenges

Stoke-on-Trent City Council: Local Spotlight

Features

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

| CYP Now

West Midlands area famous for its pottery industry is trying to mould a better future for its struggling children’s services.

Bradford City Council: Local Spotlight

Features

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

West Yorkshire council is making steady improvement after loss of experienced social workers and surge in social care demand.

Practitioners reflect on lockdown problems

Analysis

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

NSPCC has analysed staff diaries to identify key challenges of lockdown for services and vulnerable families so future lessons can be learned

Early adopters set out the key features of children’s trusts

Analysis

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| CYP Now

When it launched its children’s social care reform programme nearly five years ago, the Department for Education expressed an ambition that a third of councils should be in the process of handing responsibility for services to a children’s trust, or had completed the process, by 2020.