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Legal Update: Family group conferences

Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford, head of impact and evaluation at Coram outline findings from an evaluation of the use of FGCs at the pre-proceedings stage.

Commissioning: Parent-infant relationship services

Dr Karen Bateson, clinical psychologist and Wook Hamilton, head of development at the Parent-Infant Foundation, outline how a new toolkit can help commissioners develop provision that enhances relationships between parents and young children.

Special Report on Early Help

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  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
  • | CYP Now
With the Care Review finding a system increasingly geared towards ‘crisis intervention’, service leaders warn of an urgent need to shift focus to early help for children, young people and families.

Inspections Clinic: Multi-agency safeguarding

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  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
After a pandemic-induced hiatus, joint targeted area inspections are back. However, as Jo Stephenson reports, there are some key changes children’s services teams and practitioners need to understand.

We are the social work champions

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  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Yorkshire and the Humber region’s Children’s Social Work Matters programme was set up 10 years ago to address workforce issues. Participants look at the key achievements and future challenges.

Digital Innovation in Social Care: Special Report

The pandemic has required children’s social care to embrace digital means to maintain vital support. Here, experts set out how this can be built on to improve how services meet children and families’ needs.

Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report

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  • Tuesday, February 23, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative consequences on people’s lives, but there are growing efforts to implement trauma-informed practices in services to improve long-term outcomes.

Parenting Programmes: Special Report

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  • Tuesday, January 26, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Parenting programmes aim to give parents the insights and skills they need to help their children thrive. CYP Now’s special report looks at the latest developments, academic research and examples of best practice.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Special Report

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  • Tuesday, September 29, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Research has shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can increase the risk of poor life outcomes, so policymakers and practitioners are developing new ways to prevent ACEs and support children at risk of them.

Early Help: Special Report

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  • Wednesday, August 28, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Amid rising knife crime, youth homelessness and care referrals, the case for spending on early help has never been so important, yet investment in prevention services has been falling, fuelling late interventions.

The future of early intervention: roundtable debate

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  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Children's services leaders discussed how local authorities can provide effective early intervention against a backdrop of rising social need and continued financial constraint at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with Capita One.

The team you call out in a crisis

Liverpool's Instant Response Team works with families to help stop children going into care, winning the 2017 CYP Now award for public sector children's team of the year. Tom de Castella followed them on a typical day.

Special Report: Early Help

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  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Council early help services are changing. With budgets falling and demand for intensive services rising, early help is evolving into a more multi-agency intervention targeted at the most disadvantaged families.