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CMA report on children’s social care market reveals ‘failing system’

Friday, October 22, 2021

| CYP Now

An interim report by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into the children’s social care market reveals a “failing system” which sees children “not placed in the right homes while providers make big profits”.

West Midlands taskforce aims to find foster families for children in residential care

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

| CYP Now

A regional taskforce in the West Midlands has been created to move vulnerable children in children’s homes into foster care.

Sector responds to report on government failings in children's social care

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

| CYP Now

The children's social care sector has welcomed the National Audit Office's (NAO) calls for government action to ensure vulnerable children are properly supported.

Council's children's services to receive entire social care top-up

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Monday, January 21, 2019

| CYP Now

A council is proposing to plough all of its social care windfall from government into children's services in a bid to stem rising numbers of children in care.

Benchmark all children's services to improve standards, report urges

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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

| CYP Now

Data on all children's services provision currently on offer across England should be collected and made available to commissioners so they can make decisions based on what works best for vulnerable young people.

Government vows to launch mental health check pilots later this year

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Friday, June 1, 2018

| CYP Now

Delayed trials of mental health assessments for children entering the care system will launch later this year, the government has pledged.

Longfield calls on councils to improve stability for children in care

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Thursday, May 31, 2018

| CYP Now

Children in care are being moved around too much, with the proportion who have experienced a change in school, home or social worker within a year all rising, the children's commissioner for England has warned.

Care improves life for two thirds of children, study finds

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

| CYP Now

Being taken into care improves the life chances of more than two thirds of children, a study has found.

Doubts over future of DfE's £20m social care research centre

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

| CYP Now

The future of a delayed initiative to improve the quality of children's social care is in doubt, as there is no guarantee of ongoing government funding, documents reveal.

Children in care 'receiving less support', Ofsted finds

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Friday, April 6, 2018

| CYP Now

Children in care are receiving less support and do not feel as safe as in previous years, a study by Ofsted has found.

Council to invest £1m in children's social work recruitment drive

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Tuesday, January 2, 2018

| CYP Now

A council is to launch a £1m children's social work recruitment drive in a bid to reduce its children in care population.

Council spending rises on children in need of help

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

| CYP Now

Councils are spending 10 per cent more per head on children in need of support than they did in 2010, a government report has found.

Experts urge training drive to boost mental health support for children in care

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Monday, November 6, 2017

| CYP Now

All carers and professionals who work directly with looked-after children should receive mental health training as part of a range of efforts to boost support for them, a government-appointed group of experts has recommended.

Barnardo's to pursue 'radical' drive for children's services partnerships

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

| CYP Now

Children's charity Barnardo's is keen to form children's services partnerships with councils across the country and is in "deep discussions" with a number of local authorities, its chief executive has said.

'Inadequate' council set to invest £12m to reduce number of children in care

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Friday, September 15, 2017

| CYP Now

A council rated as "inadequate" by Ofsted is planning to invest an extra £12m in children's social care in a bid to reduce the number of children coming into care.

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CMA report on children’s social care market reveals ‘failing system’

West Midlands taskforce aims to find foster families for children in residential care

Sector responds to report on government failings in children's social care

Council's children's services to receive entire social care top-up

Benchmark all children's services to improve standards, report urges

Government vows to launch mental health check pilots later this year

Longfield calls on councils to improve stability for children in care

Care improves life for two thirds of children, study finds

Doubts over future of DfE's £20m social care research centre

Children in care 'receiving less support', Ofsted finds

Council to invest £1m in children's social work recruitment drive

Council spending rises on children in need of help

Experts urge training drive to boost mental health support for children in care

Barnardo's to pursue 'radical' drive for children's services partnerships

'Inadequate' council set to invest £12m to reduce number of children in care

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