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Residential Care: Key policy developments

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  • Tuesday, September 26, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Latest Department for Education statistics show that there were 2,880 children’s homes operating on 31 March 2023, an increase of nine per cent from the previous year (238 homes).

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Social Work

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  • Friday, September 1, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Department for Education data shows there were 7,900 social work vacancies in England in 2022, up by more than a fifth compared with the previous year and the highest rate since 2017. In 2022, children's services lost 5,400 full-time equivalent social workers.

Commissioning Children’s Social Care: Key policy developments

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  • Tuesday, May 30, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Faced with a 25 per cent rise in children in care over the past decade and funding levels that have failed to keep pace with this demand, some local authorities have struggled to ensure there are enough placements in their local area to meet the number and needs of children.

Therapeutic Care: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Therapeutic care has its roots in the post-war psychoanalytic movement that sought to understand the impact trauma has on children and young people and what support needs to be put in place to give them the best chance of recovering.

Digital Safeguarding Special Report: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care define online abuse as any type of abuse that happens on the internet, facilitated through technology like computers, tablets, mobile phones and other internet-enabled devices.

Leaving Care: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Research over many years and in several countries has shown that care-experienced people tend to have poorer life outcomes than the general population because of their exposure to trauma in childhood.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Fostering

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In 2021 69,807 children were living with around 55,510 foster families across the UK. The Fostering Network says 9,265 new foster families are needed. Record levels of enquiries were received between April 2020 and March 2021 with 160,635 expressions of interest in England. However, only six per cent went on to apply to foster. Some councils are offering welcome payments.

Trauma-Informed Services: Policy Context

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  • Tuesday, July 26, 2022
    • | CYP Now
CYP Now’s special report on trauma-informed services summarises the key policy drivers shaping trauma-based practice and interventions, assesses latest research on the impact that trauma-informed approaches are having, and highlights examples of innovative practice across agencies working with vulnerable children and families.

Commissioning Care: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, June 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
CYP Now’s Special Report on Commissioning Care outlines the key measures in the Care Review, hears from experts across the sector on the impact these could have on services, summarises latest influential research and highlights examples of good commissioning practice involving councils and providers.

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