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LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

Friday, February 5, 2016

| CYP Now

Uncertainty over the future of serious case reviews (SCRs) is damaging local safeguarding arrangements, local safeguarding children board (LSCB) leaders have warned.

SEN inspection plans 'unsustainable', say children's services chiefs

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to assess an area's special educational needs (SEN) provision are "untimely and unsustainable", according to the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS).

Hampshire DCS set to take on chief executive role

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Hampshire's director of children's services John Coughlan is set to be appointed as the council's chief executive next week.

Labour conference: Councils should get academy intervention powers, says Powell

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Local authorities would be given greater powers to improve school standards under a Labour government, the party's shadow education secretary Lucy Powell has said.

Support for care leavers deteriorating, watchdog finds

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Friday, July 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Support for vulnerable young people leaving care has deteriorated over the past decade, a critical report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

Guide helps children's professionals understand key election pledges

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Children & Young People Now presents the definitive guide to what the main parliamentary parties are pledging on key issues for children, young people and families.

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.

Professionals who fail to act on CSE face five-year jail term

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's social workers, teachers and local councillors will face up to five years in jail for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Emphasis on support under new children's home standards

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Friday, September 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's homes will be required to show how they support young people and respond to their wishes as part of ongoing government efforts to improve standards.

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

| CYP Now

A new director of children's services has been appointed by Birmingham City Council to turn around the troubled department.

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

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Friday, July 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Numbers of pupils to top eight million by 2023; London mayor launches drive to tackle child obesity; and school extremism report leaked, all in the news today.

Council chiefs call for scrapping of DCS role

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Thursday, May 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The role of director of children's services (DCS) should be scrapped to give local authorities more flexibility over leadership, a report has recommended.

Public sceptical of charities' role in delivering services

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Thursday, March 6, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly a quarter of the public believe charities are becoming too involved in delivering state services, research by a think-tank shows.

Daily roundup: Teacher-pupil relationships, council services and children's centres

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils divulge details of teacher relationship claims; government orders action at Norfolk children's services; and Essex children's centres' opening hours to be cut, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: housing benefit, Hamzah Khan and Colin Green

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Thursday, September 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Third of council tenants fall behind with rent since 'bedroom tax' introduced; body of four-year-old Hamzah Khan left in a house for two years, court told; and former Coventry DCS Colin Green joins Tower Hamlets safeguarding children's board, all in the news today.

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LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

SEN inspection plans 'unsustainable', say children's services chiefs

Hampshire DCS set to take on chief executive role

Labour conference: Councils should get academy intervention powers, says Powell

Support for care leavers deteriorating, watchdog finds

Guide helps children's professionals understand key election pledges

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Professionals who fail to act on CSE face five-year jail term

Emphasis on support under new children's home standards

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

Council chiefs call for scrapping of DCS role

Public sceptical of charities' role in delivering services

Daily roundup: Teacher-pupil relationships, council services and children's centres

Daily roundup: housing benefit, Hamzah Khan and Colin Green

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