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Inspectors slam quality of SEND support in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Thursday, September 2, 2021

| CYP Now

Support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole is blighted by a “blame culture” and “lack of urgency” to improve, inspectors have found.

Social care blueprint aims to slash caseloads

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

| CYP Now

Children’s sector leaders are backing a new social care blueprint that aims to cut caseloads and ensure social workers spend more time with families.

Council axes 160 jobs as it cuts £8.6m from early help budget

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

| CYP Now

A council is set to axe 160 jobs from a service supporting vulnerable children and young people.

Council's children's services to receive entire social care top-up

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Monday, January 21, 2019

| CYP Now

A council is proposing to plough all of its social care windfall from government into children's services in a bid to stem rising numbers of children in care.

Ombudsman criticises council over treatment of girl with 'school phobia'

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

| CYP Now

A council has been criticised by the Local Government Ombudsman for failing to consider alternative education for a child suffering from anxiety and "school phobia".

Struggling council outlines major cuts to early help and youth services

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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

| CYP Now

A financially troubled council is considering cutting funding for young people and families in need of early help by £2.5m in a bid to balance its books.

Parental conflict initiative to be trialled in 30 areas

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Friday, April 27, 2018

| CYP Now

A £39m programme aimed at reducing conflict between parents in disadvantaged families is to be trialled in 30 council areas, the government has confirmed.

Action for Children appoints new chief executive

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

| CYP Now

The current chief executive of Girlguiding will become the new chief executive of Action for Children later this year, it has been announced.

Inspectors praise children's centre support at 'inadequate' council

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

| CYP Now

Effective use of children's centres to offer early support to vulnerable families is helping an "inadequate" council turn around its performance, Ofsted has found.

As many as 1,000 children's centres now closed, study finds

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

| CYP Now

Around 1,000 children's centres have closed since 2009, twice as many as officially acknowledged, an education charity has claimed.

Government to trial upfront Troubled Families payments

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Some councils will receive upfront funding to pay for support provided through the government's Troubled Families programme as part of a trial, it has been announced.

Manchester receives DfE cash to cover terror attack costs

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Friday, March 16, 2018

| CYP Now

Children's services in Manchester have been given £451,000 from the Department for Education to cover additional costs incurred from supporting young people and families in the aftermath of last year's terror attack at Manchester Arena.

Educational impact of children's centres 'impossible to measure', Zahawi claims

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Friday, February 23, 2018

| CYP Now

It is impossible to measure whether services provided by children's centres improve educational outcomes, children's minister Nadhim Zahawi has said.

Poor areas worst affected by children's services cuts

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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

| CYP Now

Council areas with the highest levels of deprivation are bearing the brunt of children's services funding cuts, research has found.

Multisystemic therapy 'no more effective' than conventional support, study finds

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

| CYP Now

An intensive family therapy programme, used nationwide to turn around the lives of teenagers involved in antisocial behaviour and on the edge of care, is no more effective than conventional methods, researchers have concluded.

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Inspectors slam quality of SEND support in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Social care blueprint aims to slash caseloads

Council axes 160 jobs as it cuts £8.6m from early help budget

Council's children's services to receive entire social care top-up

Ombudsman criticises council over treatment of girl with 'school phobia'

Struggling council outlines major cuts to early help and youth services

Parental conflict initiative to be trialled in 30 areas

Action for Children appoints new chief executive

Inspectors praise children's centre support at 'inadequate' council

As many as 1,000 children's centres now closed, study finds

Government to trial upfront Troubled Families payments

Manchester receives DfE cash to cover terror attack costs

Educational impact of children's centres 'impossible to measure', Zahawi claims

Poor areas worst affected by children's services cuts

Multisystemic therapy 'no more effective' than conventional support, study finds

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