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Labour creates taskforce to find sustainable childcare solutions

Monday, October 10, 2016

| CYP Now

The party's new childcare taskforce must develop a future vision for children's centres and make the free entitlement sustainable, while securing a strong funding commitment from the government, say experts

Sandwell starts to tackle service problems after private partner deal

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Simon White, the privately-employed DCS at Sandwell Council, says other struggling authorities may follow their lead by partnering with an outside agency to run children's services

Can Whitehall run local services?

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Following Education Secretary Michael Gove's decision not to strip children's services from Doncaster Council, we ask two experts whether central government can be accountable for local delivery.

Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Wilshaw reveals he called for Ofsted chair to remain; leaving foster care age for young people in Wales raised; and £500,000 fund set up to help male victims of rape, all in the news today.

Study to put outsourcing on a plate for struggling children's services

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Monday, April 14, 2014

| CYP Now

The government-commissioned review of outsourcing of children's services aims to identify best practice improvement models involving voluntary and commercial providers that councils can turn to quickly when problems are entrenched.

High staff turnover at all levels means relearning same lessons

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Monday, July 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Churn in the children's workforce makes it hard to forge cross-agency bonds, says Sir Paul Ennals.

Doncaster's deliverer

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Monday, October 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett speaks to Paul Moffat, chief executive, Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

Ask the Expert: Better risk management

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

| CYP Now

Daily roundup: Protecting social workers online, school places and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

| CYP Now

Social workers call for protection from online abuse, Stephen Twigg advocates for local authority oversight of school place planning, and Channel 4 adverts banned for negative depictions of children, all in the news today.

Ask the Expert: Working with charities

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Give councils more powers to help underperforming schools

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

| CYP Now

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for local school commissioners to be introduced to co-ordinate the creation of new school places, support and challenge academies, and broker school improvement services.

Understanding youth work's impact

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

The Centre for Youth Impact aims to develop new ways to understand the benefits youth work brings.

Councils and charities absorb the impact of Whitehall spending cuts

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Monday, June 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Recent cuts to government department budgets look set to be the start of a new round of austerity in public sector spending. Three experts outline the impact these cuts will have and offer ideas on how the effect can be minimised.

'Baffling' DfE report raises fears over free childcare expansion

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Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

A Department for Education review has been unable to quantify the costs of providing childcare, prompting concerns from the early years sector that the planned expansion of the free entitlement will be underfunded.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

Providers of children's centres look at new models to offset budget cuts

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

As local authority data reveals a doubling of cuts in spending on children's centres, forcing them to prioritise the protection of statutory functions, a DfE report suggests that councils' ability to do this is being stretched to the limit.

Councils face increased pressure to respond to child refugee crisis

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Kent Council is struggling to cope with a major rise in the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children it is caring for, to the point where the government is preparing to force other authorities to share the burden.

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.

Information sharing is the key to success of alternative provision

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

| CYP Now

An Ofsted report highlights the importance of schools and councils sharing information about excluded pupils with alternative providers, but experts warn the fragmentation of the education system has made this more difficult.

The future of children's services: proactive, predictive and digital

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

If children's services are to deliver improved outcomes with declining resources, the sector must embrace technology, joint working and volunteers, says Pillars and Foundations, a radical paper from the ADCS.

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Labour creates taskforce to find sustainable childcare solutions

Sandwell starts to tackle service problems after private partner deal

Can Whitehall run local services?

Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims

Study to put outsourcing on a plate for struggling children's services

High staff turnover at all levels means relearning same lessons

Doncaster's deliverer

Ask the Expert: Better risk management

Daily roundup: Protecting social workers online, school places and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

Ask the Expert: Working with charities

Give councils more powers to help underperforming schools

Understanding youth work's impact

Councils and charities absorb the impact of Whitehall spending cuts

'Baffling' DfE report raises fears over free childcare expansion

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

Providers of children's centres look at new models to offset budget cuts

Councils face increased pressure to respond to child refugee crisis

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

Information sharing is the key to success of alternative provision

The future of children's services: proactive, predictive and digital

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