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Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Trauma-based support programme for vulnerable women has helped reduce the number of children taken into care and improved parent-child relationships.

Local Spotlight: Bolton Council

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Despite budget squeezes and high child poverty rates, North West council’s children’s services is achieving high standards.

Legal Update: National Kinship Care Strategy

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

CoramBAAF kinship consultants Clare Seth and Ann Horne outline the government’s new strategy.

Trauma-informed practice in residential child care settings

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Drawing on 75 years’ experience, the Mulberry Bush Organisation has developed a range of training programmes for staff working with children who have, or are, experiencing early life trauma.

Youth charities issue mental health improvements plea to politicians

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

A coalition of charities supporting children and young people are calling on politicians of all parties to commit to improvements in mental health support ahead of this year’s general election.

Funding Focus: Care Leavers Programme

Funding

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

A total of £3m is available over the next three years for community foundations to support care-experienced young people transition into adulthood.

Strengthening carer relationships through trauma-informed arts

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Arts charity uses the principles of trauma-informed care to create safe spaces for care-experienced children and young people where they can strengthen relationships with people in their lives and express themselves creatively.

Inspections clinic: Physical education and SEND

Thursday, February 1, 2024

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Children with special educational needs and disabilities do not always receive the right support to participate fully in PE and sport at school. Jo Stephenson looks at ways provision can be improved.

Consultation launches on statutory guidance for council use of agency social workers

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has launched a four-week consultation on new statutory guidance for the use of agency social workers by local authority children’s services.

Young care-experienced parents build confidence in developing support networks

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Care-experienced parents are using their voice to get support and help with professional development in Hertfordshire.

CYP Now conference to explore impact of AI on children’s services evaluation

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

The impact of innovative practice in children’s services, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI), on young people’s outcomes will be explored at CYP Now’s annual Evaluation, Evidence & Impact conference.

Green traineeship programme grows diversity

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Paid placements help young people from under-represented groups gain skills in conservation and green education across the capital’s nature reserves.

Using TIC approaches to support young people affected by conflict

Other

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Research suggests that displaced children and young people fleeing war and conflict may have experienced an average of eight potentially traumatic events.

Unlocking help for prisoners’ children

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

With the UK prison population at an all-time high, increasing numbers of children and young people have a parent in prison. Andy Ross explores the impact on families and how best to support them.

Making Islington Council trauma informed

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Laura Eden, Islington Council’s director of safeguarding and lead for trauma-informed practice, explains how the London authority is rolling out TIP awareness training.

Leadership: Working with retailers

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Charities can extend their reach by forming strategic partnerships with carefully selected retailers, generating vital extra funds and opening up opportunities for relationships that drive social change.

EHCP review could ease £4bn council funding gap, say MPs

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

The government is being called on by MPs to carry out a review of education, health and care plans (EHCPs) as part of measures to ease a £4bn gap in council finances, caused by “systemic underfunding” of local government.

How I Got Here: Jaffer Ali Hussain, head of youth practice for the North of England

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Jaffer Ali Hussain, head of youth practice for the North of England at The Children’s Society, on how his experiences of youth work shaped his career.

Liverpool’s ‘inadequate’ children’s services improving, says Ofsted