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Exploring Demand and Provision in English Child Protection Services

Monday, June 20, 2016

| CYP Now

A team of researchers from Kingston University and the University of London wanted to map demand for, and provision of, services in the child protection system.

Children and Social Work Bill: main measures, key questions

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Sector leaders explain how proposals in the Children and Social Work Bill could affect care leavers, safeguarding and adoption services, as well as the impact they will have for social workers and councils.

Guide to safeguarding reforms

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has proposed an overhaul of local safeguarding arrangements. Here are the key changes.

Early help needs to harness childhood adversity data

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

| CYP Now

Protecting the vulnerable online

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

| CYP Now

Children's professionals must help vulnerable young people stay safe online, says John Coleman

Ask the Experts: Support academies to improve

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on problem academies, whole-family assessments, supporting parents at nursery and a squatting protest.

Police and schools connect to help Gateshead tackle domestic abuse

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

At a time when government has highlighted the need to improve local domestic violence services, the support provided by Gateshead Council has been praised - with good information sharing between agencies at its heart.

Innovation and collaboration lands tri-borough ‘outstanding' ratings

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

A new social work practice model, low caseloads and joined-up services have helped two of the three councils in a merged children's services department become the first to be judged "outstanding" by Ofsted's inspection system.

Champion for prevention: Sarah Champion MP, shadow minister for preventing abuse

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

Jess Brown talks to Sarah Champion MP, shadow minister for preventing abuse.

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

Marianne Lagrue, project officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines issues faced by unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Children to be removed from families as part of ‘randomised adoption trial'

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Friday, April 1, 2016

| CYP Now

Scores of children will be removed from their birth parents under controversial government plans to prove the value of adoption, it has emerged.

The duty to report FGM

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Professionals working with children now have a duty to report cases of female genital mutilation (FGM). Louise Hunt investigates progress so far.

Relentless increase in children's care applications set to continue

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

A record number of care applications were made in February, but experts differ over whether this is a sign of better child protection practice, the result of cuts to early help services or rising levels of poverty.

Ask the Experts: Explore British values with toddlers

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on British values at nursery, reducing child trafficking, teenage cannabis use and tidying young people's rooms.

Legal Update: Trafficking victims and families

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Frances Trevena, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the gaps in service provision for families and child victims of trafficking and how this group can be better supported.

Violence at home: When children abuse their parents

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

| CYP Now

Growing recognition of the problem of child-to-parent violence has prompted new government guidance. Eileen Fursland looks at a range of approaches designed to tackle this complex issue.