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Daily roundup 5 April: Signs, free school meals, and stabbing death

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  • Thursday, April 5, 2018
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Call for councils in Scotland to remove "no ball games" to encourage children to play; study finds 100,000 children could miss out on free school meals due to method used to set the threshold; and two young people arrested after 18-year-old stabbed to death, all in the news today.

Daily roundup 4 April: Baseline checks, bullying, and shooting death

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  • Tuesday, April 3, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Union warns of potential for industrial action over controversial literacy and numeracy checks for four-year-olds; researchers find Muslim parents pulling children out of school due to bullying; and second young person dies following shootings in London, all in the news today.

Daily roundup 29 March: Holiday support, Cafcass, and Brexit

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  • Thursday, March 29, 2018
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Nadhim Zahawi announces funding for research on how best to help disadvantaged families during school holidays; Cafcass services rated "outstanding" by Ofsted; and report warns EU families with British-born children to get their statuses documented prior to Britain leaving the European Union, all in the news today.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 27, 2018
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Rising demand for children's services and increasing expectations of what they should deliver - while coming at a time when resources are shrinking - has created a necessity among local authorities to find new ways of reaching more people at less cost.

Daily roundup 27 March: Medway, grammar schools, and YOT funding

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  • Tuesday, March 27, 2018
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Four people are cleared of misconduct following abuse allegations at secure training centre; academic study suggests grammar schools are "no better" than state schools; and police and crime commissioner asked to explain decision not to fund youth offending team, all in the news today.

Social Media and E-professionalism in Child Welfare: Policy and Practice

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  • Tuesday, March 27, 2018
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This article reports that, in the United States, there is little guidance for managers and policymakers about how child welfare workers should search for or communicate with clients via social media. It offers a number of considerations for standards of e-professionalism. As well as the journal article, this summary draws on relevant guidance and frameworks from the UK.

eCDOP

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  • Tuesday, March 27, 2018
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IT solution electronically mirrors local safeguarding children boards' process of recording and reviewing deaths of under-18s.

Daily roundup 22 March: Emergency cash, youth centres, and SEN funding

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  • Thursday, March 22, 2018
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Council set to provide schools with emergency money to help children struggling from the impact of welfare reforms; youth centres in Bath and North East Somerset facing closure; and schools in Hull reaching "breaking point" over lack of funding to support children with special educational needs, all in the news today.

Daily roundup 21 March: SEND funding, religion, and school trip

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  • Wednesday, March 21, 2018
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Councils in London warn of funding shortfall to support children with special educational needs; research finds decline in religiosity among young people in UK is steepest in Europe; and school in Newcastle apologises for leaving young person in London following school trip, all in the news today.

Daily roundup 20 March: Gove, defamation, and cannabis

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  • Tuesday, March 20, 2018
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Gove facing questions in relation to alleged intervention in sexual abuse investigation while Education Secretary; Ukip told to pay legal costs of three Labour MPs following defamation case; and petition to be presented to government calling for six-year-old boy to be granted a special licence to use medical cannabis, all in the news today.

Daily roundup 14 March: Childcare vouchers, Telford, and extremism

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  • Wednesday, March 14, 2018
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Government delays scrapping childcare voucher scheme; police claim reports of scale of child abuse in Telford have been "sensationalised", and Justice Secretary warns that extremist parents could have their children taken away by the courts, all in the news today.

Daily roundup 13 March: Celibacy, poverty, and age checks

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  • Tuesday, March 13, 2018
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Church calls for celibacy to be promoted as part of sex and relationships education; Iain Duncan Smith suggests Chancellor should reverse universal credit cuts; and government confirms delay to introduction of age checks for online porn, all in the news today.

Daily roundup 9 March: Homework, failure, and child protection

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  • Friday, March 9, 2018
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British parents found to spend less time helping children with homework than other countries; founder of Wikipedia tells students of importance of failing; and inspectors warn of police child protection weaknesses in Lancashire, all in the news today.

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