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Leaders say offering payments to attract foster carers will boost councils’ placement options and reduce costs, but some experts doubt that financial inducements will work and instead call for a national recruitment campaign.

Councils turn to inducements to attract scarce fostering families

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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Research reveals local authorities and providers face a huge shortage of foster carers to meet demand. Some councils are now offering ‘golden hellos’ to potential carers, but this practice has triggered mixed views.

Study highlights damage pandemic caused to welfare of children at risk

Analysis

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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Manchester Metropolitan University in partnership with the Alliance for Youth Justice have embarked on a research project, funded by UK Research and Innovation, focusing on the impact of Covid-19 on each stage of the youth justice system.

Debate: School-run chaperones

Analysis

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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Youth workers will chaperone pupils to reduce violence, but expert says scheme will create more trauma.

Tackling free childcare decline

Analysis

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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Councils are honing ways to reverse fall in the number of two-year-olds using the funded entitlement.

Child deaths link to pressures of pandemic and resources shortage

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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The killings of two young children in 2020 by their parents and partners have raised serious questions about safeguarding practice during the pandemic and whether there is sufficient funding and staff to fulfil duties.

Success for tutoring programme

Analysis

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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Amid concerns over national tutoring scheme, academy trust initiative improves poorer pupils’ outcomes.

Support hubs campaign gains impetus

Analysis

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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Charities and local authorities call for national rollout of easy access drop-in centres to provide early mental health support to young people.

Questions on revamped national child asylum transfer scheme

Analysis

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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Amid the recent surge of migrants across the Channel, the government has made compulsory a scheme to disperse unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK after some South East councils were struggling to cope.

Provider survey reveals scale of childcare workforce crisis

Analysis

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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Few parts of the children and families sector have been hit as hard by the pandemic as early years services. Shortages of staff and government funding have only been exacerbated by Covid-19 as demand for places has failed to return to pre-pandemic levels resulting in settings closing.

Using the law to uphold vulnerable children’s rights and entitlements

Analysis

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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It is 40 years since Coram Children’s Legal Centre published Locked Up in Care, its first major report. It has championed the rights of marginalised groups of children and is still holding policymakers to account.

Youth custody rethink needed, say critics

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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

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Campaigners say failings at Oakhill STC highlight widespread system problems improvement plan won’t fix.

Rise in mental health workers

Analysis

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

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Policy developments help boost mental health workforce but councils need more funding, say experts.

Family hubs expansion: sector split on their role and potential

Analysis

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

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Advocates of family hubs say new government funding will help establish a network of family support facilities that complements the early years focus of children’s centres, but some fear it signals the "death knell" for them.

Youth work diversion role lauded

Analysis

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

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Experts hail youth workers’ skills in tackling violence and call for funding to create ‘trusted relationships’.

Post-adoption contact set to go digital

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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

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Research highlights need to modernise adoption contact systems, with experts saying a digital approach could boost children’s wellbeing.

Oxfordshire’s collaborative model for sustainable change in families

Analysis

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

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The Care Review’s Case for Change report set out why the children’s social care system needs to provide more support for families.

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Growing gap in secure care options for children in crisis

Lessons from mental health pilots

How schools policy failed some children

Incentive payments: sector split over ethics and effectiveness

Councils turn to inducements to attract scarce fostering families

Study highlights damage pandemic caused to welfare of children at risk

Debate: School-run chaperones

Tackling free childcare decline

Child deaths link to pressures of pandemic and resources shortage

Success for tutoring programme

Support hubs campaign gains impetus

Questions on revamped national child asylum transfer scheme

Provider survey reveals scale of childcare workforce crisis

Using the law to uphold vulnerable children’s rights and entitlements

Youth custody rethink needed, say critics

Rise in mental health workers

Family hubs expansion: sector split on their role and potential

Youth work diversion role lauded

Post-adoption contact set to go digital

Oxfordshire’s collaborative model for sustainable change in families

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