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Educational psychology services feel strain of budget cuts

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils across England have cut funding for educational psychology services by five per cent over the last three years, figures show.

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

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Monday, December 2, 2013

| CYP Now

MP pledges to raise case of Italian woman whose child was taken at birth; more children being treated for eating disorders; and Labour seeks to strengthen law around underage smoking, all in the news today.

Study raises prospect of youth mental health service

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

| CYP Now

A government study to assess the benefits of existing youth health services could be the first step in the development of a national mental health service for adolescents and young adults, campaigners have said.

Narey defends private sector role in child protection

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's adviser on children's social care has defended proposals to allow child protection services to be outsourced, which he said does not amount to large-scale privatisation.

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

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Friday, June 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on children's social care has increased by more than five per cent in a single year, government figures show.

Bristol youth services outsourced in £22m deal

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Friday, September 28, 2012

| CYP Now

A major reorganisation of young people's services in Bristol has resulted in £22m of contracts being awarded for provision over the next five years.

Children's services procurement 'too costly and bureaucratic'

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

| CYP Now

Organisations representing 400 providers of services for children have called on Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to address the spiralling cost and bureaucracy of delivering services on behalf of local authorities.

DfE overspends by £1bn on academy expansion

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Thursday, November 22, 2012

| CYP Now

The Department for Education overspent by £1bn on its academy expansion programme in just two years, it has emerged.

Analysis backs drive for youth-led services

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Monday, November 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people and communities should be given the authority to decide the shape of youth work services in their area, a study has found.

Health reforms fail to improve prevention services

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Reforms to the NHS have failed to address a lack of focus on early intervention and joined-up working in children's health services, a report has found.

Devon children's centres face closure threat

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's centre closures are being considered in Devon as the county council looks to make £1.2m of cuts to the service.

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's services chiefs are being called upon to share information about how their departments can deliver effective services while managing challenging budgets.

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.

CYP Now investigation: Play services decimated as funding slashed

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly a third of local authorities in England have closed play facilities as a result of spending on play services over the past three years being slashed by 39 per cent, an investigation by CYP Now has revealed.

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils will be handed powers to outsource a whole range of children's social care services including child protection under proposals announced by the government.

Child protection outsourcing plans 'dead in the water', claims Loughton

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Controversial plans to allow councils to outsource child protection services are "dead in the water" following the departure of Michael Gove from the Department for Education, former children's minister Tim Loughton has claimed.

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.

Government urged to underwrite social impact bonds

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

| CYP Now

The government should guarantee private investments in social impact bonds to encourage more private funding in the third sector, a charity finance expert has said.

Greenwich outsources all its children's centres

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The Royal Borough of Greenwich has selected a mixture of schools, charities and a leisure trust to run its 24 children's centres from April this year.

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.

Kensington & Chelsea outlines vision for tri-borough children's services

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Monday, January 9, 2012

| CYP Now

Politicians in Kensington & Chelsea have outlined their vision of standards for children's services for a new combined department across three authorities, stating that outstanding inspection ratings are expected.

Distribution of early intervention grant sparks concerns

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Monday, January 9, 2012

| CYP Now

Fairness in the distribution of the early intervention grant has been called into question after it emerged that many deprived areas have fared worse than those that are better off.

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.

Fee cuts 'could threaten residential placements'

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

| CYP Now

Residential care providers have warned children's services leaders that any attempts by councils to cut the fees paid to independent homes could see care placements jeopardised.

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Educational psychology services feel strain of budget cuts

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

Study raises prospect of youth mental health service

Narey defends private sector role in child protection

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

Bristol youth services outsourced in £22m deal

Children's services procurement 'too costly and bureaucratic'

DfE overspends by £1bn on academy expansion

Analysis backs drive for youth-led services

Health reforms fail to improve prevention services

Devon children's centres face closure threat

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

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

CYP Now investigation: Play services decimated as funding slashed

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

Child protection outsourcing plans 'dead in the water', claims Loughton

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Government urged to underwrite social impact bonds

Greenwich outsources all its children's centres

Slough children's services to become independent trust

Kensington & Chelsea outlines vision for tri-borough children's services

Distribution of early intervention grant sparks concerns

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

Fee cuts 'could threaten residential placements'

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