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Worcestershire unveils policy to charge parents of looked-after children

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Parents could be forced to pay as much as £900-a-month if their children are taken into care, under plans announced by Worcestershire County Council.

Forced caesarean highlights complexity of child protection decisions, experts say

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Adoption experts say the placement with a new family of a child of a mentally ill Italian woman who had a forced caesarean is one of the most complex children's social workers have dealt with.

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

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Friday, June 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

Cameron extends Troubled Families programme to 500,000

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Monday, August 18, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of troubled families receiving intensive government support to turn their lives around is to be increased from 120,000 to 500,000.

ADCS launches inquiry into the care system

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Directors of children's services have launched an inquiry into the purpose of the care system, as part of plans to radically improve provision for looked-after children across the country.

Ofsted rates third council ‘inadequate' in space of week

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Monday, May 18, 2015

| CYP Now

West Berkshire Council has become the third local authority in the space of a week to have its children's services department rated "inadequate" after Ofsted inspectors found serious failures in services.

Tory council boss hits out at government over Ofsted grading

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The leader of a council where children's services were graded "inadequate" by Ofsted has blamed central government for falling standards.

Increasing numbers of children 'at risk of abuse'

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Friday, October 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Numbers of children subject to child protection plans because they are deemed to be at risk of abuse are continuing to rise, government figures reveal.

Ofsted tells two councils to improve children's services

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

| CYP Now

Two councils have been told to improve standards within their children's services departments following inspections by Ofsted.

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.

Timpson moves to calm outsourcing fears

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Concerns about controversial plans to allow councils to outsource child protection services will get serious consideration, children's minister Edward Timpson has pledged.

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

| CYP Now

An independent panel of experts will be created to vet the decisions of local safeguarding children board chairs under revised safeguarding guidance published today.

Concurrent planning reduces problems for adopted children, finds study

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Friday, March 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Children adopted through concurrent planning are less likely to experience problems, such as school exclusion, behaviour difficulties and depression, than those who are placed with families at a later stage.

Ofsted calls for improvements at Bristol and Rochdale children's services

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Friday, December 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Bristol and Rochdale have been told to improve the quality of services for children and young people following inspections by Ofsted.

Specialist support set to benefit 3,000 adopter families

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Monday, February 23, 2015

| CYP Now

More than 3,000 families that have adopted a child are set to benefit from the government's £19.3m Adoption Support Fund, latest figures suggest.

Children's services in Lambeth judged 'inadequate'

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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Standards at Lambeth Council's children's services department have nosedived from "outstanding" to "inadequate" in the space of just three years.

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

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Monday, June 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Charities working with children and young people have lost more than £150m of government funding in the past year, it has emerged.

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of children being made subject to special guardianship orders (SGOs) is continuing to rise, government figures have shown.

Morgan unveils plans for new social work body

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

| CYP Now

A new social work organisation to drive up standards and put social workers on a par with high-status professions such as surgeons or lawyers will be established, government has announced.

Support boost for councils at risk of 'inadequate' Ofsted rating

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils yet to have their children's services inspected by Ofsted are to be given additional support as part of a local government bid to prevent them being rated "inadequate" and facing intervention from the Department for Education (DfE).

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Worcestershire unveils policy to charge parents of looked-after children

Forced caesarean highlights complexity of child protection decisions, experts say

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Cameron extends Troubled Families programme to 500,000

ADCS launches inquiry into the care system

Ofsted rates third council ‘inadequate' in space of week

Tory council boss hits out at government over Ofsted grading

Increasing numbers of children 'at risk of abuse'

Ofsted tells two councils to improve children's services

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

Timpson moves to calm outsourcing fears

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Concurrent planning reduces problems for adopted children, finds study

Ofsted calls for improvements at Bristol and Rochdale children's services

Specialist support set to benefit 3,000 adopter families

Children's services in Lambeth judged 'inadequate'

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

Morgan unveils plans for new social work body

Support boost for councils at risk of 'inadequate' Ofsted rating

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