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The value of safety planning

    Features
  • Thursday, January 4, 2024
  • | CYP Now
Dr Carlene Firmin has highlighted the complex challenges practitioners face when supporting children and young people affected by extra-familial harm through her development of contextual safeguarding since 2016.

Legal Update: Keeping children in care safe

CoramBAAF head of policy, research and development James Bury on how the vital role of health professionals for care safeguarding was explored at this year’s CoramBAAF Health Conference.

Online Safety Bill: Key measures and concerns

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  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
  • | CYP Now
The Online Safety Bill sets out the case for a new regulatory framework for internet services with measures aimed at ensuring platforms have systems and processes in place to deal with illegal and harmful content and their associated risks.

Digital Safeguarding Special Report

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  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Children have never been more connected, with many able to support their education and friendships digitally, prompting policymakers and practitioners to develop new ways to make the online world safer.

Legal Update: The Online Safety Bill

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  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
With the delay of the Online Safety Bill, the UK should not abandon its obligations to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse, says Awaz Raoof, head of law and programmes at Coram International.

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.

Digital Solutions Special Report

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  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how digital services can be part of the solution to delivering care and support to vulnerable children and families – and provide new ways of tackling problems.

Child Sexual Exploitation: Special Report

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  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Children’s services have been adapting during the pandemic to deliver interventions and support to vulnerable children and young people as experts warn of an uptick in child sexual exploitation cases.

Embed a culture of safeguarding

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  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Embedding a culture of safeguarding means that it becomes an integral part of how an organisation operates at every level, from managers leading by example to equipping staff with the skills they need.

Denying refugee children protection

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  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
  • | CYP Now
With new asylum legislation going through parliament, Joyinola Layonu, legal and policy assistant at the Migrant Children’s Project at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, looks at concerns for children’s rights.

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.

Contextual Safeguarding: Special Report

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  • Tuesday, January 5, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Contextual Safeguarding looks at factors beyond the home to form a broader picture when assessing risk. 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.

Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

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  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Joint targeted area inspections began in 2016 with the aim of bringing a range of inspectorates together to assess how health and care services for children are delivered. Jo Stephenson assesses the learning so far.

Unregistered children’s homes: Legal Update

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
  • | CYP Now
As the number of children being taken into care continues to rise, Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at concerns regarding unregulated and unregistered children’s homes.