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Timpson reveals initial action to tackle children's services 'failures'

Monday, December 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has unveiled a raft of immediate actions the government will take to tackle poor standards across "failing" children's services departments.

Five lessons for charities and ministers from the collapse of Kids Company

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

| CYP Now

The closure of Kids Company highlighted problems over the checks and balances used by government and charities to ensure public funding is spent well, from which the rest of the children's voluntary sector can learn.

LGA board chief: let councils solve children's services challenges

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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

| CYP Now

Richard Watts, chair of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, says councils must be given freedoms to overcome a crisis in funding, recruitment and excessive demand across children's social care.

Daily roundup: Children's bill debate, Labour reshuffle, and Hull cuts

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Children and Families Bill amendments due to be debated by peers today; Labour makes changes to its education team; and planned cuts at Hull Council sparks union concerns, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

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Friday, December 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Report blames sexual grooming of young girls on police failings; MPs call for fairer children's palliative care funding; and a youth offending service in Teeside wins praise, all in the news today.

Funding for Birmingham recovery plan falls short of estimate

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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.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

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Monday, January 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Sweeping reform of the youth justice system is necessary to prevent hundreds of children being "needlessly" criminalised and sentenced to custody, according to a think-tank.

Daily roundup: Sex offenders, bullying and budget cuts

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Convicted paedophiles avoid prison; rise in the number of children seeking support for bullying; and cuts to Salford's children's services, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Youth work, parental leave, charity funding

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Monday, March 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Hospital youth workers could help girls trapped in gangs; quarter of dads take no parental leave, study finds; and warning for charities over fundraising methods, all in the news today.

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

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Friday, August 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has announced how much each council will receive this year to extend support up to age 21 for young people in foster care, but concerns remain that the money is not enough.

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's services chiefs are being called upon to share information about how their departments can deliver effective services while managing challenging budgets.

Committed local democrat: Roy Perry, chair, LGA children and young people board

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes meets Roy Perry, chair of the LGA children and young people board.

Fostering success in Staying Put

Other

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

| CYP Now

Sufficient funding and good communication with foster carers are key to improving Staying Put take-up.

A Supportive Home

Funding

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

| CYP Now

A Supportive Home, launched in partnership with BBC Children in Need and The Hunter Foundation, is the second grant round of the Youth Endowment Fund's Agency Collaboration Fund.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Children's centres funding cut by £400m in three years

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Friday, September 26, 2014

| CYP Now

Spending on children's centres and early years services has been slashed by more than £400m in the space of just three years, government figures show.

'Partnership with profession key to delivering reforms' - Timpson

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

| CYP Now

I went to Warwick last week to visit the supported internships programme at the National Grid.

Council at centre of CSE scandal gets innovation cash

News

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).

Charities to tackle LGBT bullying in schools

News

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

| CYP Now

Eight charities are to share £2m of government funding to develop projects to tackle homophobic bullying in schools.

Hackney innovation scheme to divert young people from gangs

News

Thursday, March 5, 2015

| CYP Now

Teenagers at risk of gang crime and child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Hackney are to benefit from £1.97m worth of children's social care innovation fund money.

Further austerity is the only election certainty

Other

Monday, April 27, 2015

| CYP Now

As the curtain comes down on this Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, it is worth reflecting on what we've learnt from the past five years - as it looks increasingly likely that the future holds more of the same.

Daily roundup: Unemployment, digital footprints and sexual exploitation

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Fewer children in jobless households, a call for internet guidance for parents, and five arrested by police investigating the alleged rape of 15-year-old, all in the news today.

Pilot Project on Unaccompanied Minors

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

| CYP Now

Grants to support work with children entering the EU unaccompanied by an adult

Tax evasion crackdown 'threatens early intervention'

News

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Attempts to fund early intervention work through social finance would be compromised by a government bid to crack down on tax evasion through charitable donations, it has been claimed.

Children in care not receiving support entitlements, MPs find

News

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

| CYP Now

Looked-after children and care leavers are missing out on support entitlements because some local authorities are deliberately not telling them what is available as a way of saving money, MPs have said.

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Timpson reveals initial action to tackle children's services 'failures'

Five lessons for charities and ministers from the collapse of Kids Company

LGA board chief: let councils solve children's services challenges

Daily roundup: Children's bill debate, Labour reshuffle, and Hull cuts

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

Funding for Birmingham recovery plan falls short of estimate

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

Daily roundup: Sex offenders, bullying and budget cuts

Daily roundup: Youth work, parental leave, charity funding

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Committed local democrat: Roy Perry, chair, LGA children and young people board

Fostering success in Staying Put

A Supportive Home

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Children's centres funding cut by £400m in three years

'Partnership with profession key to delivering reforms' - Timpson

Council at centre of CSE scandal gets innovation cash

Charities to tackle LGBT bullying in schools

Hackney innovation scheme to divert young people from gangs

Further austerity is the only election certainty

Daily roundup: Unemployment, digital footprints and sexual exploitation

Pilot Project on Unaccompanied Minors

Tax evasion crackdown 'threatens early intervention'

Children in care not receiving support entitlements, MPs find

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