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The future of children's services: proactive, predictive and digital

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.

Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

CYP Now has collected the views of children's services experts from a range of backgrounds to hear what they think the key challenges and opportunities will be in 2016 across services for children, young people and families.

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

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Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders gathered at CYP Now's Early Help Conference to discuss latest policy developments in early help and hear how local areas are developing interventions across a range of settings and age groups.

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

The Prime Minister highlighted children's social care as ripe for reform in a speech this month, with failing services handed to trusts or other providers to run. Children's services experts give their views on what this means for the years ahead

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).

LGA hails "momentous" transfer of public health services for under-fives

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Parents will see "massive benefits" for their children as a result of responsibility for public health services for under-fives transferring to local authorities, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said.

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.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

Timpson announces extra £70m for innovation programme

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Friday, October 31, 2014

| CYP Now

An additional £70m will be made available for projects to improve children's services through the government's innovation programme, children's minister Edward Timpson has announced.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

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Friday, October 24, 2014

| CYP Now

A lack of authority-wide support for change and an "arcane" IT system were key reasons for slow progress in improving children's services in Somerset, the council's former director of children's services (DCS) has claimed.

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Somerset County Council has announced it has terminated the contract of the interim director of children's services (DCS) for failing to deliver improvements at the struggling authority quickly enough.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Blackpool are improving but problems remain with support for care leavers and planning for looked-after children, inspectors have found.

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The future of children's services: proactive, predictive and digital

Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

LGA hails "momentous" transfer of public health services for under-fives

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Timpson announces extra £70m for innovation programme

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

Slough children's services to become independent trust

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

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