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Research reveals trends in child social care demand and outcomes

    Analysis
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2024
  • | CYP Now
An analysis of more than three million social care assessments in England has uncovered trends in demand and links to outcomes for vulnerable children which, researchers say, could help councils to better understand local population challenges and adapt service provision accordingly.

Early adopters set out the key features of children’s trusts

    Analysis
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
  • | CYP Now
When it launched its children’s social care reform programme nearly five years ago, the Department for Education expressed an ambition that a third of councils should be in the process of handing responsibility for services to a children’s trust, or had completed the process, by 2020.

PM's plan 'overstretched and underfunded'

In the coming weeks, local authorities are faced with the daunting task of calculating the number of "troubled families" in their area, identifying where they live and what their needs are.

Early intervention grant raises questions over fairness and bias

Against a backdrop of continued austerity, the announcement last month that the early intervention grant is set to rise by six per cent from April appeared to offer some hope that services tackling deep-seated issues among the most disadvantaged children and families would be boosted.

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