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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| CYP Now

Commissioners should consider how best to meet the mental health needs of looked-after children, says Frank McGhee.

Shared Services: Policy context

Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

Defining what shared services are is vital to understand the approaches that work best in services for children and young people and whether there is scope for this to grow.

Shared Services: Special Report

Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local authorities to find a wider range of care options for vulnerable children and introduce a greater array of good practice approaches to improve outcomes.

Rethinking children's services

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

| CYP Now

Local authorities are starting to test new ways to meet children and families' needs that focus on forging compassionate relationships between state and citizen amid rising demand for services, says Richard Selwyn.

Commissioning: Community resilience

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

| CYP Now

With austerity being the new norm, commissioners must tap into their community to make ends meet, says Richard Selwyn.

Councils look to unite to deliver children's social care, survey finds

Monday, August 7, 2017

| CYP Now

A growing number of councils plan to join forces to run children's social care services, a government survey of children's services leaders has found.

Better commissioner relations

Analysis

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

| CYP Now

A Lloyds Bank Foundation report says the current commissioning processes threaten the survival of small charities. Here, a commissioner says they must work to forge partnerships with councils.

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils have missed a first year target for the numbers of families to be worked with under the government's flagship troubled families initiative.

Trafford sets agenda for integration of children's care and health services

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Having outsourced day-to-day management of its children's services to an NHS trust, Trafford Council plans to become the first area to fully integrate social care and community health services for children and adults.

Innovation and collaboration lands tri-borough ‘outstanding' ratings

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

A new social work practice model, low caseloads and joined-up services have helped two of the three councils in a merged children's services department become the first to be judged "outstanding" by Ofsted's inspection system.

Ask the Experts: Post-retirement work options

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on working with children after retiring, joint commissioning, internet safety and the role of key workers.

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

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.

Zika threat highlights need for public health investment

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

| CYP Now

In the first half of the 20th Century, polio became feared across the world.

Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

CYP Now has collected the views of children's services experts from a range of backgrounds to hear what they think the key challenges and opportunities will be in 2016 across services for children, young people and families.

Spending Review should usher in consolidation on many fronts

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

| CYP Now

So now we know for certain about the money.

DfE study to inform Spending Review 'not completed in time'

Friday, December 4, 2015

| CYP Now

A study ordered by the Department for Education (DfE) in order to inform decisions made at last month's Spending Review about how children's services will be funded over the next five years is yet to be completed, CYP Now can reveal.

Putting children's rights at the heart of services for children

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

A Unicef UK programme is helping five councils change how they deliver and commission a range of children's services by redesigning them using the principles that underpin the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.

Martin Narey's resignation statement

Thursday, November 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Sir Martin Narey took to social media network Twitter to announce his resignation from the Adoption Leadership Board.

Narey quits as head of Adoption Leadership Board

Thursday, November 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Sir Martin Narey has quit as head of the Adoption Leadership Board, the influential body set up by the government to drive through reforms to the sector.

Care leavers 'cut adrift' due to poor-quality support

Friday, October 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Vulnerable young people leaving the care system are being "let down" and "cut adrift" due to the poor quality of support they receive from local authorities, MPs have said.

Cameron announces review of children's residential care system

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a major "root and branch" review of children's residential care will be conducted by government adviser Sir Martin Narey.

Ask the Experts: Address suspicions over legal highs

Best Practice

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on the dangers of legal highs, child protection changes, building a bug hotel and holding a winter bazaar.

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges