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Leadership: Children's services -- the good, the bad and the future

Friday, April 15, 2011

| CYP Now

Do you remember Spangles? Do you listen to music on an iPod? Do you remember having milk in a bottle at playtime in primary school? Do you communicate with your friends via Facebook?

Ask the Experts: Social care budget cuts

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Daily roundup: School safeguarding, children's services and child injuries

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Friday, April 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Gove highlights FGM risk in letter to school head teachers; Coventry councillors work together to improve children's services; and Nottinghamshire councils develop plan to cut child injuries, all in the news today.

Ask the Experts: Deter young people from drugs

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Monday, September 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on "legal highs", saving money while safeguarding, partnership working concerns and coping with hot weather.

A provocative president

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Monday, March 31, 2014

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett meets Alan Wood, the new president of the ADCS.

Let's be ready to answer for our children's rights record

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's commissioner for England Maggie Atkinson looks ahead as the UNCRC marks its Silver Jubilee.

Independent voice a must for commissioner Anne Longfield

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The next children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield must stand up to the government if she is to champion the rights of children and young people and allay concerns over the role's independence.

'Frontline for managers' gets backing

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Innovation grant will hone social work managers' skills, but critics want more widespread training investment.

Recruitment in children's services: trends and challenges

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Funding cuts coupled with increased demand for services are intensifying the recruitment challenges for children's services employers. Joe Lepper explores the trends across the children's workforce.

The care 'market' is in critical condition - we must find a cure

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Monday, August 3, 2015

| CYP Now

No one involved in children's services over the last few years could have been under any illusion that all was rosy in the world of foster care and residential care, nor indeed in the related local authority commissioning practices.

Behind the Inspection Rating: Staff ensure quality short breaks

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Ade Adepitan Short Break Centre, London - short break centre inspection - September 2015.

Mission to unify social work: Ruth Allen, BASW chief executive

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Adam Offord talks to Ruth Allen, chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers.

Birmingham chief vows to improve inadequate services within a year

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Monday, April 29, 2013

| CYP Now

The second city's new children's services chief Peter Duxbury has put staff stability and support networks at the heart of his strategy to turn around the council's unenviable record on safeguarding children

Child safeguarding: leaders' debate

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders from councils across England discussed the current challenges of safeguarding children at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with 4Children. Ravi Chandiramani reports

Daily roundup: Childcare in schools, perinatal mental health and domestic abuse

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Monday, June 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Minister moots late opening schools plan; report warns of postcode lottery for perinatal mental health, and serious case review identifies missed opportunities, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Children's homes, Birmingham DCS and school places

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Friday, July 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Education committee launches inquiry into children's residential care, Birmingham's DCS leaves the council, and the government announces which schools will receive funding for new places, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Internet pornography, child extremists, and free bus travel

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Monday, July 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Prime Minister announces measure to curb online pornography, hundreds of children referred to anti-extremism project, and Lib Dems keen on free bus travel for children, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Adoption figures, Doncaster and anti-gay school rules

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Adoptions increase at fastest rate for 15 years, Hackney DCS to lead Doncaster changes, and DfE to probe policies banning 'promotion' of homosexuality, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Shoesmith compensation, council spending, and school standards

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Details emerge of Sharon Shoesmith compensation deal; Somerset criticised for amount spent on children's services leaders; and academies best for supporting disadvantaged pupils, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: FGM arrest, Walsall Council, and children's centres

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Monday, July 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Two people arrested in suspected FGM case; government lifts improvement notice on Walsall children's services department; and plans announced to reorganise children's centres in Bradford, all in the news today.