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Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2020
  • | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

Unregistered children’s homes: Legal Update

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
  • | CYP Now
As the number of children being taken into care continues to rise, Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at concerns regarding unregulated and unregistered children’s homes.

Shared Services: Special Report

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local authorities to find a wider range of care options for vulnerable children and introduce a greater array of good practice approaches to improve outcomes.

Morgan unveils plans for new social work body

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  • Thursday, January 14, 2016
  • | CYP Now
A new social work organisation to drive up standards and put social workers on a par with high-status professions such as surgeons or lawyers will be established, government has announced.

DfE study to inform Spending Review 'not completed in time'

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  • Friday, December 4, 2015
  • | CYP Now
A study ordered by the Department for Education (DfE) in order to inform decisions made at last month's Spending Review about how children's services will be funded over the next five years is yet to be completed, CYP Now can reveal.

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

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  • Wednesday, December 2, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kent County Council is holding discussions about the possibility of outsourcing elements of its children's social care work in order to help deal with an influx of asylum-seeking children, it has emerged.

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