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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.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Health

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
While the NHS remains the biggest employer of children’s health professionals, many work in multi-agency teams. In the children’s sector, roles cover a wide range of areas including nursing, midwifery, health visiting, paediatrics, mental health, substance misuse and sexual health.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Youth Justice

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Youth justice roles are available in youth offending teams (YOTs), the police, courts, Crown Prosecution Service, secure estate and voluntary sector. There are also roles in the Youth Justice Board (YJB), which oversees the system in England and Wales.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Youth Work

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In February 2022, the government committed to a new Youth Guarantee, including a £171m investment in the National Citizen Service (NCS). A £378m Youth Investment Fund will finance up to 300 new and refurbished youth facilities. Government-funded local youth partnerships in deprived areas will aim to improve services for young people through greater co-operation between the public and voluntary sectors.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Early Years

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The early years sector continues to face a recruitment crisis with 84 per cent of settings finding it difficult to recruit suitable staff, according to an Early Years Alliance (EYA) survey published in December 2021. The EYA is calling on the government to provide early years funding rates that enable providers to pay higher salaries, and to run a high-profile recruitment campaign.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Education

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The government’s schools white paper, published in March 2022, includes plans for funded training for a senior mental health lead in every school and the provision of six million tutoring courses by 2024.

Early Help Special Report Policy Context

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  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Since 2010/11, spending by councils on early help services has fallen from £3.8bn to £1.9bn per year (see graphics). The brunt of the spending cuts has been on support for young people – 77 per cent fall from £1.3bn to £300m – and children’s centres – down 73 per cent from £1.5bn to £400m.

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.

International Focus: Autism support, New Zealand

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  • Tuesday, June 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Emily Niner visited New Zealand to see how agencies there deliver post-diagnostic support to children and young people with autism, and explore what practices could be replicated by services in the UK.

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.

Youth work and sport – Policy context

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  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Activity levels among children and young people generally have fallen since the pandemic. Latest figures from Sport England show that 45 per cent meet the chief medical officer’s target of 60 minutes of exercise a day, while a third of young people undertake less than half the recommended amount.

Digital Solutions: Policy context

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  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Covid-19 pushed children’s services providers to reimagine how they work with each other and the families they’re looking to support and protect.

Policy context: Access to the outdoors

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  • Tuesday, March 29, 2022
    • | CYP Now
According to the Children’s People and Nature Survey (C-PANS) published by Natural England in February, 96 per cent of children said they spent time outside (somewhere other than their garden) at least once a week in August 2021.

Therapeutic Communities: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The term “therapeutic” – at least in the way commissioning specifications set out – focuses on the direct work of a therapist in weekly sessions with a child. While this important technical component has its place, it is only one limited element. In order for residential care, fostering, education or supported housing to be “therapeutic” something more is needed.

How music therapy supports children in therapeutic settings

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  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Music therapy is one of the innovative interventions central to the Coram Creative Therapies and Parenting Service. It supports a range of children and young people, particularly when they might not be able to engage in talking therapies and a more creative, strengths-based approach is needed.

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