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NCAS conference: ADCS warns over 'loss of clarity' of safeguarding boards

Thursday, October 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders have called for the government to clarify the role of local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) amid concerns their effectiveness is being hindered by a growing brief.

Peers vote for full funding review into free childcare expansion

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

| CYP Now

The government must carry out a thorough review of how it will fund the expanded free childcare entitlement before peers will give it their backing.

NCAS conference: Ofsted social care lead hints at lighter touch inspection plans

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

| CYP Now

A future children's services inspection system is likely to be lighter touch but continue to use graded judgments, Ofsted's social care lead has said.

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.

Cameron announces drive to improve outcomes for children in care

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

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Improving outcomes for children in care will form part of an "all-out assault on poverty" by government, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

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.

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.

Councils call for clarity over refugee support arrangements

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Council and children's services leaders are calling on the government to clarify how they will be supported to resettle 20,000 refugees, including unaccompanied children, from Syria.

Administrators complete transfer of BAAF services

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Friday, September 25, 2015

| CYP Now

All remaining UK functions of the collapsed charity the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) have now been transferred to other organisations, according to its administrators.

Campaign group highlights deep cuts to short breaks funding

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Friday, September 25, 2015

| CYP Now

More than 70 councils have slashed spending on short breaks for families with disabled children over the past four years, latest figures show.

Council approves creation of independent children's trust

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Slough Council has rubber-stamped the creation of an independent trust to run its children's services after a dispute over the funding of the initiative was partly resolved.

Youth work 'staff mutual' gets councillors' backing

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Proposals to create a staff-run charitable trust to run youth services in Thurrock have been welcomed by members of the council's children's services scrutiny committee.

Ex-MP calls for increased spending on child mental health services

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

| CYP Now

The government needs to pump more money into tackling a wide range of mental health conditions through its children's mental health investment programme, former health minister Paul Burstow has said.

DfE considers intervening at West Midlands council

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education is considering whether to intervene in the running of a council's children's services that has been subject to three damning Ofsted reports in the past two years.

Dorset young people have say over future of youth services

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Monday, September 21, 2015

| CYP Now

Dorset County Council is consulting young people on how they use youth services in light of plans to almost halve the amount of youth work funding over the next two years.

Labour announces shadow childcare and children's ministers

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Friday, September 18, 2015

| CYP Now

Labour has appointed its shadow childcare and shadow children's ministers following Jeremy Corbyn's election as the party's new leader.

Ofsted rates council 'inadequate' over child protection failings

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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has been criticised by Ofsted for potentially placing children at risk due to delays in assessments.

Child protection 'will struggle to cope' with Spending Review cuts

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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Work by councils to protect children from abuse and neglect will struggle to continue at its current level if funding for local authorities is cut further in the autumn's Spending Review, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Drop in number of children approved for adoption continues

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Friday, August 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Numbers of children being approved for adoption are continuing to fall, it has emerged.

A further 100 children's centres face closure

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Monday, August 17, 2015

| CYP Now

More than 100 children's centres will close or are under threat of closure, it has emerged.

DfE sanctions urgent probe into children's services spending

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Friday, August 14, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) has ordered a study into the spending habits of local authority children's services departments ahead of expected central government cuts being announced in November.

Only a quarter of councils rated 'good' in Ofsted inspections

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Three-quarters of English children's services departments assessed under Ofsted's single inspection framework (SIF) have been given the two lowest ratings, latest data reveals.

Introduction of living wage set to hike childcare providers' costs by a third

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Monday, August 10, 2015

| CYP Now

The quality of childcare could suffer unless the government meets the cost of rising staff wages across the sector, early years employers have warned.

Kids Company closure: Lambeth and Bristol vow to fund alternative services

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Thursday, August 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Local authorities that had commissioned services from Kids Company have vowed to fund alternative provision for vulnerable children affected by the charity's closure.

Major children's rights charities announce merger

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Thursday, August 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Two children's rights charities have announced that they are joining forces to boost their impact and save money.

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NCAS conference: ADCS warns over 'loss of clarity' of safeguarding boards

Peers vote for full funding review into free childcare expansion

NCAS conference: Ofsted social care lead hints at lighter touch inspection plans

Hampshire DCS set to take on chief executive role

Cameron announces drive to improve outcomes for children in care

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

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

Councils call for clarity over refugee support arrangements

Administrators complete transfer of BAAF services

Campaign group highlights deep cuts to short breaks funding

Council approves creation of independent children's trust

Youth work 'staff mutual' gets councillors' backing

Ex-MP calls for increased spending on child mental health services

DfE considers intervening at West Midlands council

Dorset young people have say over future of youth services

Labour announces shadow childcare and children's ministers

Ofsted rates council 'inadequate' over child protection failings

Child protection 'will struggle to cope' with Spending Review cuts

Drop in number of children approved for adoption continues

A further 100 children's centres face closure

DfE sanctions urgent probe into children's services spending

Only a quarter of councils rated 'good' in Ofsted inspections

Introduction of living wage set to hike childcare providers' costs by a third

Kids Company closure: Lambeth and Bristol vow to fund alternative services

Major children's rights charities announce merger

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