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Digital Solutions Special Report

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

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The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how digital services can be part of the solution to delivering care and support to vulnerable children and families – and provide new ways of tackling problems.

Digital Solutions: Policy context

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

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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.

Digital simulation helps practitioners spot signs of abuse

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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NSPCC teams up with software provider to develop a computer game that helps identify child abuse.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

Compulsory FGM education to be introduced

Monday, February 25, 2019

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The dangers of female genital mutilation (FGM) will be taught to all secondary school pupils, the Department for Education has announced.

Education Secretary pledges action to tackle school exclusion rates

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

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Education secretary Damien Hinds wants schools that are successfully dealing with challenging pupils to be central to efforts to tackle high exclusion rates across England.

Timpson to lead DfE review of school exclusions

Monday, March 12, 2018

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Former children's minister Edward Timpson is to lead a review into school exclusions, the Department for Education has confirmed.

Government urges training drive to curb restraint of disabled children

Thursday, November 30, 2017

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Robust staff training plans are needed to reduce the use of restraint of under-18s who have learning disabilities, autism or mental health needs, draft government guidance has said.

Children's services leaders urge action on home schooling

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

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Children's services leaders have called for tougher regulation of home schooling after it emerged that the number of children being educated outside of schools is rising fast.

School-based charity reports rapid rise in safeguarding concerns

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

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A school-based child and family support charity has reported a trebling in the proportion of cases it deals with over the last six years where there is a safeguarding concern.

One in three areas fail children with special needs

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

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Councils and health organisations in around a third of areas are failing to effectively support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), analysis by Ofsted and health watchdog the Care Quality Commission has revealed.

Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

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Amid constant reforms and challenges, Charlotte Goddard identifies entry-level requirements and ongoing professional development for key roles across the children and young people's workforce.

Ofsted issues warning notices to 31 unregistered schools

Thursday, July 13, 2017

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Ofsted has issued a total of 31 warning notices to unregistered schools since establishing a special taskforce 18 months ago, it has emerged.

Teachers fear Prevent strategy 'stigmatises Muslim students'

Monday, July 3, 2017

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School and college staff in England have concerns that the government anti-radicalisation strategy is increasing stigmatisation of Muslim students, research has found.

Queen's Speech: Plans to scrap free school meals and create new grammars dropped

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

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Plans to scrap free school meals for primary school children and allow new grammar schools to be opened have not featured in the government's legislative plans for the new parliament.

DfE appoints two new ministers in wake of Timpson departure

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

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A former public health minister and a former immigration minister have been appointed to the DfE ministerial team following a government reshuffle.

Your guide to the Children and Social Work Act

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

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What the act means for everyday practice across the children's workforce.

Social workers advised to visit homes for six months in suspected abuse cases

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

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Social workers should consider home visits for at least six months if there are suspicions that a child is being abused or neglected, new guidance has suggested.

Huge increase in child-on-child sex offences

Friday, February 3, 2017

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The number of reported cases of children committing sexual offences against other children has increased by 78 per cent since 2013, research by Barnardo's has found.

Birmingham children's trust to launch April 2018

Monday, January 16, 2017

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A new independent trust to run children's services in Birmingham will officially launch in April 2018, with the organisation taking the form of a company owned by the council, rather than an employee-owned mutual, it has emerged.

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