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Funding for Birmingham recovery plan falls short of estimate

Thursday, April 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Birmingham City Council will spend just two-thirds of the extra £140m in funding that was originally estimated would be needed to turn around its troubled children's services.

Framework set to improve councils' response to harmful sexual behaviour by children

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

| CYP Now

A group of charities, youth justice agencies and council leaders have come together to tackle the lack of support for children who display harmful sexual behaviour (HSB).

Better safeguarding work leads to fall in violent injuries

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Improved child protection procedures have contributed to a large fall in the number of violent injuries against children and young people over the last year, a leading research academic has said.

West Sussex creates 'academy' to support new social workers

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

| CYP Now

West Sussex County Council has announced an overhaul of its social work team, including the creation of an "academy" to support new recruits and prevent burnout.

ADCS president O'Sullivan to champion Staying Put extension

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

| CYP Now

The new president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has vowed to make the extension of support rights for children in residential care a key goal of her time in office.

Children's services leaders call for wholesale changes to Ofsted inspection system

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

| CYP Now

The current Ofsted inspection system for children's services should be scrapped and replaced with a light-touch but better-targeted approach, children's services and local authority leaders say.

Government to consider intervention in Somerset children's services

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Monday, March 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education will consider intervening in the running of children's services in Somerset after the department was labelled "inadequate" by Ofsted for the second time in less than two years.

New Rotherham children's chief slams schools over continuing failure to tackle CSE

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Friday, March 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Rotherham's director of children's services has condemned an "astonishing" lack of engagement by schools to tackle child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the borough while urging a greater focus and respect for youth work.

Give councils powers to issue banning orders to tackle CSE, says LGA

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Friday, March 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Councils should be given powers to tackle suspected sexual predators with child sexual exploitation (CSE) disruption orders, according to the Local Government Association (LGA).

Lord Warner to continue advising Birmingham Council

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

| CYP Now

Birmingham City Council's government-appointed children's commissioner is to carry on advising its struggling children's services department beyond his current contract.

Children's services in Leicester judged 'inadequate'

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Monday, March 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services in Leicester are "inadequate" and in urgent need of improvement, according to a damning inspection report by Ofsted.

Almost a third of councils get innovation funding

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Monday, March 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Nearly a third of local authorities have been handed £60m to test new ways to improve children's social care, according to latest government figures.

Timpson envisages more children's services becoming independent trusts

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Monday, March 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson expects more local authorities to follow in the footsteps of Doncaster Council by setting up independent trusts to run children's services.

GPs need to improve knowledge of FGM, say MPs

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Saturday, March 14, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs have criticised GPs and other health professionals for failing to report cases of female genital mutilation (FGM).

'Passive' DfE fails to improve outcomes for looked-after children

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs have launched a scathing attack on the Department for Education's commitment to improving support for children in care.

Wilful neglect laws for children's professionals unlikely before 2017

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Laws to prosecute children's professionals for wilful neglect in failing to protect young people from child sexual exploitation are unlikely to be in place for another two years.

Ofsted: Three-quarters of children's services departments 'not good enough'

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Monday, March 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Less than a quarter of local authority children's departments inspected by Ofsted last year were found to be providing effective social care services.

Safe Network loses DfE grant

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Friday, March 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Safeguarding support charity Safe Network is facing an uncertain future after the Department for Education announced it is to axe its annual funding of £500,000.

Council at centre of CSE scandal gets innovation cash

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

The government has awarded £3.8m of Children's Social Care Innovation Fund money to four projects involved in supporting victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE).

Review criticises failings to tackle street grooming in Oxfordshire

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

More than 370 children have been at risk of child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Oxfordshire over the last 15 years, according to a damning report into the way victims were treated by police and children's services.

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.

Social work leaders welcome Labour early intervention focus

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

| CYP Now

Social work leaders have welcomed moves by the Labour Party to prioritise prevention of child abuse.

Whitehall unit to reform child protection systems under a Labour government

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Monday, February 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Labour will create a cross-government child protection unit to "revolutionise" safeguarding systems and practice if the party is elected in May.

'Councils still failing to properly tackle CSE' - children's commissioner

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Councils and police forces are failing to face up to the realities of child sexual exploitation (CSE), according to a critical report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England (OCC).

Buckinghamshire offers social workers £5,000 'golden hello'

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Buckinghamshire Council is to offer children's social workers incentive payments of more than £5,000 to join its struggling children's services department.

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Funding for Birmingham recovery plan falls short of estimate

Framework set to improve councils' response to harmful sexual behaviour by children

Better safeguarding work leads to fall in violent injuries

West Sussex creates 'academy' to support new social workers

ADCS president O'Sullivan to champion Staying Put extension

Children's services leaders call for wholesale changes to Ofsted inspection system

Government to consider intervention in Somerset children's services

New Rotherham children's chief slams schools over continuing failure to tackle CSE

Give councils powers to issue banning orders to tackle CSE, says LGA

Lord Warner to continue advising Birmingham Council

Children's services in Leicester judged 'inadequate'

Almost a third of councils get innovation funding

Timpson envisages more children's services becoming independent trusts

GPs need to improve knowledge of FGM, say MPs

'Passive' DfE fails to improve outcomes for looked-after children

Wilful neglect laws for children's professionals unlikely before 2017

Ofsted: Three-quarters of children's services departments 'not good enough'

Safe Network loses DfE grant

Council at centre of CSE scandal gets innovation cash

Review criticises failings to tackle street grooming in Oxfordshire

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

Social work leaders welcome Labour early intervention focus

Whitehall unit to reform child protection systems under a Labour government

'Councils still failing to properly tackle CSE' - children's commissioner

Buckinghamshire offers social workers £5,000 'golden hello'

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