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Royal colleges issue guide to improve healthcare for looked-after children

Friday, April 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Specialist doctors and nurses should be given increased time to assess and support looked-after children, according to new guidance for healthcare providers.

Guide helps children's professionals understand key election pledges

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Children & Young People Now presents the definitive guide to what the main parliamentary parties are pledging on key issues for children, young people and families.

David Laws is one of dozens of Lib Dems to lose seat as Ed Balls also defeated

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Friday, May 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Three MPs who have had ministerial responsibility for children's and families' issues have been unseated at the general election.

Inspectors praise safeguarding work at Wetherby YOI, but warn over rise in violence

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

| CYP Now

Safeguarding work and education services at Wetherby young offender institution (YOI) have been praised by inspectors despite a rise in the number of violent incidents at the West Yorkshire establishment.

NYA needs to 'reconnect' with youth sector, says new interim chief

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

| CYP Now

The National Youth Agency's (NYA) interim boss has admitted that the organisation may have been "complacent" in meeting the needs of a changing youth sector.

College of Social Work closure shocks children's leaders

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Friday, June 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's social work leaders have been left stunned and saddened by news that The College of Social Work (TCSW) is to close.

ADCS Conference: President warns of funding crisis and ‘broken' Ofsted framework

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Friday, July 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services departments are facing a "looming crisis" because of funding cuts, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has warned.?

Campaign group highlights deep cuts to short breaks funding

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Friday, September 25, 2015

| CYP Now

More than 70 councils have slashed spending on short breaks for families with disabled children over the past four years, latest figures show.

Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died

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Friday, November 27, 2015

| CYP Now

A children's services department that was providing support for three vulnerable children who died in the space of a month has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Kent County Council is holding discussions about the possibility of outsourcing elements of its children's social care work in order to help deal with an influx of asylum-seeking children, it has emerged.

Government reveals extent of council education funding cuts

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Friday, December 18, 2015

| CYP Now

The government has confirmed the extent of cuts to council funding for education support services next year.

Unions slam employers' plans to scrap youth work pay settlement

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Monday, February 1, 2016

| CYP Now

A row has erupted between unions and employers over plans to scrap a system for setting the pay of youth workers in England and Wales that has existed for more than half a century.

Narey backs residential child care but calls for better value

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Monday, July 4, 2016

| CYP Now

There is "very little scope" for reducing reliance on children's homes, and any moves to do so would not be in children's best interests, a review of residential child care by government adviser Sir Martin Narey has concluded.

Government launches specialist CSE response unit

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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

| CYP Now

A service providing specialist advice and support to children's professionals tackling child sexual exploitation (CSE) incidents is to be launched by the government later this month.

Ofsted unveils inspection framework for children's services

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted is to push ahead with the introduction of a tougher inspection regime for children's services, ignoring warnings from the sector that the system is too simplistic and will fail to deliver improvements.

Haringey installs interim director to lead children's services

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Haringey Council has moved its deputy director of adult services to take temporary charge of children's services in Haringey following the sudden departure of Libby Blake as children's services chief.

U-turn over approval process for long-distance care placements

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

| CYP Now

Directors of children's services (DCSs) will not have to personally approve care placements outside of their authority or region after initial plans to do so were watered down.

Senior figures quit council following 'inadequate' Ofsted rating

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Thursday, September 7, 2017

| CYP Now

Two senior figures in Croydon children's services have resigned following the south London borough's damning Ofsted inspection.

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils will be handed powers to outsource a whole range of children's social care services including child protection under proposals announced by the government.

CYP Now launches monthly management bulletin

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Friday, May 2, 2014

| CYP Now

CYP Now is launching an email bulletin to highlight latest developments on the management of children and young people's services across the public, private and voluntary sectors.

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Royal colleges issue guide to improve healthcare for looked-after children

Guide helps children's professionals understand key election pledges

David Laws is one of dozens of Lib Dems to lose seat as Ed Balls also defeated

Inspectors praise safeguarding work at Wetherby YOI, but warn over rise in violence

NYA needs to 'reconnect' with youth sector, says new interim chief

College of Social Work closure shocks children's leaders

ADCS Conference: President warns of funding crisis and ‘broken' Ofsted framework

Campaign group highlights deep cuts to short breaks funding

Ofsted slams poor practice at council where three children died

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

Government reveals extent of council education funding cuts

Unions slam employers' plans to scrap youth work pay settlement

Narey backs residential child care but calls for better value

Government launches specialist CSE response unit

Ofsted unveils inspection framework for children's services

Haringey installs interim director to lead children's services

U-turn over approval process for long-distance care placements

Senior figures quit council following 'inadequate' Ofsted rating

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

CYP Now launches monthly management bulletin

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