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Children's centres: seven councils responsible for more than half of closures

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Just seven councils are responsible for more than half the closures of children's centres since 2010 according to figures provided by childcare minister Sam Gyimah.

Foster carers reject Staying Put over lack of financial support

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Foster carers are reluctant to allow young people to remain with them until they are 21 because of a lack of financial support for the flagship government policy, it has emerged.

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

| CYP Now

More local authority children's services departments will be taken out of council control in order to tackle failure, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

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Monday, June 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Charities working with children and young people have lost more than £150m of government funding in the past year, it has emerged.

Early intervention chief: Youth sector fails to prove value

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Monday, April 27, 2015

| CYP Now

The youth sector is yet to prove the value of its work as pressure on budgets intensifies, the chief of an organisation set up by government to promote early intervention has claimed.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

Children's homes providers face £500k bill for new quality standards

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

| CYP Now

Government proposals to introduce new quality standards in children's homes would significantly drive up costs for providers, it has emerged.

Failure to tackle children's problems costs £17bn a year

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Social problems affecting young people are costing government close to £17bn a year, a major study by the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) has found.

Benefits outstrip costs of investing in CAMHS, analysis finds

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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Investing in services and therapies for children and young people with mental health problems can deliver financial savings and benefits more than 30-times greater than the cost of providing them, latest analysis shows.

Alan Wood backs national commissioning of children's home places

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

| CYP Now

National commissioning of residential care placements for the most vulnerable children and young people could help improve service standards, Alan Wood, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Councils ‘fail to protect young homeless people'

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Children are being left at risk of sexual exploitation because councils are turning them away when they are homeless, a damning report has claimed.

Councils call for national outcomes framework for looked-after children

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Monday, November 24, 2014

| CYP Now

A national outcomes framework should be developed as one of a range of measures to improve services for looked-after children and those with greatest needs, a report has found.

MPs slam 'deeply flawed' children's mental health system

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

| CYP Now

There are "serious and deeply ingrained problems" with the commissioning and delivery of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), MPs have found.

Timpson announces extra £70m for innovation programme

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Friday, October 31, 2014

| CYP Now

An additional £70m will be made available for projects to improve children's services through the government's innovation programme, children's minister Edward Timpson has announced.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

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Friday, October 24, 2014

| CYP Now

A lack of authority-wide support for change and an "arcane" IT system were key reasons for slow progress in improving children's services in Somerset, the council's former director of children's services (DCS) has claimed.

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Somerset County Council has announced it has terminated the contract of the interim director of children's services (DCS) for failing to deliver improvements at the struggling authority quickly enough.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Blackpool are improving but problems remain with support for care leavers and planning for looked-after children, inspectors have found.

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly 500 children in Manchester were potentially left at risk because social work assessments were not carried out quickly enough, a report that has rated the city's children's services as "inadequate", has found.

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Children's centres: seven councils responsible for more than half of closures

Foster carers reject Staying Put over lack of financial support

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

Early intervention chief: Youth sector fails to prove value

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Children's homes providers face £500k bill for new quality standards

Failure to tackle children's problems costs £17bn a year

Benefits outstrip costs of investing in CAMHS, analysis finds

Alan Wood backs national commissioning of children's home places

Councils ‘fail to protect young homeless people'

Councils call for national outcomes framework for looked-after children

MPs slam 'deeply flawed' children's mental health system

Timpson announces extra £70m for innovation programme

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

Slough children's services to become independent trust

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

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