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Ofsted finds improvement in social care assessment practice

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

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Children's services professionals are improving the way they undertake assessments of vulnerable children's needs, an Ofsted inspection has found.

Councils "take easy option" to cut youth services, says youth minister

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Monday, August 3, 2015

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A "set in their ways" mindset has seen local authorities take the "easy option" of cutting youth services, minister for civil society Rob Wilson has said.

DfE urged to publish full figures for failed returns from care

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Monday, July 27, 2015

| CYP Now

The NSPCC is calling for the government to publish detailed data revealing how many children in each English local authority area re-enter care after a return home fails.

Meagre pay could spark nursery staff shortage

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Friday, July 24, 2015

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Low rates of pay could trigger a future shortage of nursery staff and undermine the government's expansion of free childcare provision, researchers have warned.

Inspectors slam South Yorkshire Police over safeguarding failures

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

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The police force criticised last year over its handling of child sexual exploitation (CSE) allegations in Rotherham is not doing enough to improve its child protection procedures, a report has found.

Care system must address ‘recovery from trauma' of child sexual abuse

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

| CYP Now

Agencies are picking up sharp increases in child sexual abuse while many looked-after children urgently need more support to recover from the trauma of abuse that led to them entering care, according to an expert panel of professionals.

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.

ADCS Conference: President warns of funding crisis and ‘broken' Ofsted framework

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Friday, July 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services departments are facing a "looming crisis" because of funding cuts, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has warned.?

YOI to trial use of Skype by young offenders

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Young people held at a young offender institution (YOI) will be able to talk to their families and youth offending team (YOT) workers by using internet video calling.

Budget 2015: £30m fund a 'shot in the arm' for sector, say adoption experts

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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Adoption experts have welcomed the government's decision to provide £30m to councils to pay the cost of them placing children with adoptive parents outside of their area.

Hilton Dawson urges BASW to take on College of Social Work remit

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

| CYP Now

Social work leaders should resist moves to resurrect The College of Social Work (TCSW) and instead back the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) to become the "independent, authoritative body" for the whole profession, according to the association's former chief executive Hilton Dawson.

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.

Government 'fails to improve education of young disabled people'

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Monday, June 22, 2015

| CYP Now

The government is failing to meet its pledge to ensure young people with disabilities can access specialist further education colleges, it has been claimed.

Pilot regional adoption agencies to place 200 children a year

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Monday, June 22, 2015

| CYP Now

The government wants to test regional adoption agencies that can find homes for 200 children and young people a year so that they can be operating at a more "efficient and effective" scale.

College of Social Work closure shocks children's leaders

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Friday, June 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's social work leaders have been left stunned and saddened by news that The College of Social Work (TCSW) is to close.

MPs elect Neil Carmichael as education committee chair

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

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Neil Carmichael has been elected as chair of the parliamentary education committee, seeing off competition from former children's minister Tim Loughton.

NYA needs to 'reconnect' with youth sector, says new interim chief

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

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The National Youth Agency's (NYA) interim boss has admitted that the organisation may have been "complacent" in meeting the needs of a changing youth sector.

Inspectors praise safeguarding work at Wetherby YOI, but warn over rise in violence

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

| CYP Now

Safeguarding work and education services at Wetherby young offender institution (YOI) have been praised by inspectors despite a rise in the number of violent incidents at the West Yorkshire establishment.

Chief inspectors slam councils' CSE failings

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

| CYP Now

The chief inspectors of Ofsted and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) have launched a scathing attack on councils' failure to tackle child sexual exploitation (CSE).

Childcare sector welcomes Ofsted inspection reforms

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Independent childcare providers have welcomed changes to early years inspections, which they say will level the playing field with other types of education settings.

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Ofsted finds improvement in social care assessment practice

Councils "take easy option" to cut youth services, says youth minister

DfE urged to publish full figures for failed returns from care

Meagre pay could spark nursery staff shortage

Inspectors slam South Yorkshire Police over safeguarding failures

Care system must address ‘recovery from trauma' of child sexual abuse

Support for care leavers deteriorating, watchdog finds

ADCS Conference: President warns of funding crisis and ‘broken' Ofsted framework

YOI to trial use of Skype by young offenders

Budget 2015: £30m fund a 'shot in the arm' for sector, say adoption experts

Hilton Dawson urges BASW to take on College of Social Work remit

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

Government 'fails to improve education of young disabled people'

Pilot regional adoption agencies to place 200 children a year

College of Social Work closure shocks children's leaders

MPs elect Neil Carmichael as education committee chair

NYA needs to 'reconnect' with youth sector, says new interim chief

Inspectors praise safeguarding work at Wetherby YOI, but warn over rise in violence

Chief inspectors slam councils' CSE failings

Childcare sector welcomes Ofsted inspection reforms

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