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Local authorities told to hold schools to account

Thursday, April 12, 2012

| CYP Now

Government must clarify local authority powers to intervene with failing maintained schools and academies to ensure standards are sustained, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Social workers in more than 50 councils have high caseloads

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

| CYP Now

The average social worker is dealing with between 20 and 30 cases at any time in 57 local authorities across England, a report by the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has found.

Government admits 26-week care proceedings target 'unlikely' to be met

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Friday, March 27, 2015

| CYP Now

The government has admitted the 26-week target to decide whether a child is taken into care is "highly unlikely" to ever be met for all cases.

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.

Ofsted judges two children's homes 'inadequate'

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Two children's homes, including one where a young person displaying sexually harmful behaviour was found to have had access to pornography, have been judged "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Ofsted rates government-imposed children's services trust 'inadequate'

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Friday, November 27, 2015

| CYP Now

An independent children's services trust that was established on government orders has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Government-ordered children's trust services rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

| CYP Now

The quality of children's services provided by a government-ordered independent trust have been rated as "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Fast-track social work scheme massively oversubscribed

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Friday, March 4, 2016

| CYP Now

A government-funded fast-track social work training scheme is massively oversubscribed, with more than 10 applicants battling it out for every place, it has emerged.

Children's social workers 'undermined' by government reform plans

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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

| CYP Now

Social workers in England feel "patronised" and "sidelined" by the government's approach to social work reform, it has been claimed.

Ofsted rates two children's homes ‘inadequate'

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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

| CYP Now

Two children's homes have been judged to be "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Ambition and NCVYS confirm merger

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Friday, March 11, 2016

| CYP Now

Youth charities Ambition and the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) will merge on 1 April, it has been announced. ??

DfE-funded care initiative to recruit 100,000 volunteers to expand nationwide

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

| CYP Now

A government-funded social care initiative that supports families in crisis has announced plans to recruit 100,000 volunteers as part of a major nationwide expansion.

In the new edition of CYP Now: Academies everywhere

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

| CYP Now

The latest issue of CYP Now magazine takes an in-depth look at the government's controversial plans to turn all schools into academies.

Social work accreditation failure ‘will not trigger de-registration'

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

| CYP Now

Social workers who fail new accreditation tests being introduced by government will not lose their registration, the chief social worker for children has said.

Tri-borough appoints new head of children's services

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Monday, May 9, 2016

| CYP Now

The tri-borough arrangement of children's services covering Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster, has appointed a new head of children's services.

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

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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.

Commissioning of children's services could be at risk, warns report

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

| CYP Now

The government must urgently clarify the role of local health and wellbeing boards in children's services commissioning, a report has warned.

Child poverty figure drops by 100,000

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

| CYP Now

The number of children living in poverty has fallen by 100,000 in a year, according to latest figures.

Local authorities to receive 'definitive guide' to commissioning for looked-after children

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Monday, October 18, 2010

| CYP Now

Local authorities are set to benefit from a guide to commissioning for looked-after children, which will offer advice on how to cope with the unprecedented rise in referrals to children's social care teams.

Government urged to underwrite social impact bonds

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

| CYP Now

The government should guarantee private investments in social impact bonds to encourage more private funding in the third sector, a charity finance expert has said.

Ofsted strikes defiant note in furore over ‘one-word' social care judgments

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Friday, October 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted director of social care Debbie Jones has hit back at criticism that the new single inspections framework ignores the complexity of services and undermines confidence.

CYP Now Awards 2011 shortlist published

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

| CYP Now

Entries for the 2011 Children & Young People Now Awards have been whittled down to create a shortlist in each of the 20 categories.

Government will not step in to protect youth services, Loughton admits

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Monday, October 24, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's minister Tim Loughton has revealed the government has no plans to intervene with local authority services for young people despite 28 authorities not providing spending plans for youth work.

Budget boost for Bath and North East Somerset youth services

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Friday, March 2, 2012

| CYP Now

Youth services in Bath and North East Somerset have received a boost after the council rubberstamped plans to increase the budget.

DfE hands council £9.6m to establish children's services 'centre of excellence'

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Friday, February 24, 2017

| CYP Now

A council has been awarded £9.6m from the Department for Education's innovation fund to set up a national centre to teach other local authorities how to improve practice.

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Local authorities told to hold schools to account

Social workers in more than 50 councils have high caseloads

Government admits 26-week care proceedings target 'unlikely' to be met

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Ofsted judges two children's homes 'inadequate'

Ofsted rates government-imposed children's services trust 'inadequate'

Government-ordered children's trust services rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted

Fast-track social work scheme massively oversubscribed

Children's social workers 'undermined' by government reform plans

Ofsted rates two children's homes ‘inadequate'

Ambition and NCVYS confirm merger

DfE-funded care initiative to recruit 100,000 volunteers to expand nationwide

In the new edition of CYP Now: Academies everywhere

Social work accreditation failure ‘will not trigger de-registration'

Tri-borough appoints new head of children's services

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

Commissioning of children's services could be at risk, warns report

Child poverty figure drops by 100,000

Local authorities to receive 'definitive guide' to commissioning for looked-after children

Government urged to underwrite social impact bonds

Ofsted strikes defiant note in furore over ‘one-word' social care judgments

CYP Now Awards 2011 shortlist published

Government will not step in to protect youth services, Loughton admits

Budget boost for Bath and North East Somerset youth services

DfE hands council £9.6m to establish children's services 'centre of excellence'

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