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Front of Mind

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Increased political profile and a new care framework offer a chance to improve children's mental health services. Louise Hunt examines the prospects and looks at the innovative work of local projects.

Game over: the risks of children gambling

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Harmful gambling among children and young people is an increasing concern. Charlotte Goddard explores the problem and what support is available to families and children’s services professionals.

Therapeutic Communities: Policy context

    Other
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The term “therapeutic” – at least in the way commissioning specifications set out – focuses on the direct work of a therapist in weekly sessions with a child. While this important technical component has its place, it is only one limited element. In order for residential care, fostering, education or supported housing to be “therapeutic” something more is needed.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2020
    • | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

How Covid-19 remade children’s services

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 26, 2021
    • | CYP Now
A year on from the emergence of the coronavirus and onset of the pandemic, experts assess the long-term impact of the disruption it has caused to children’s services and young people’s lives.

Suicide bereavement support, Denmark

Anna Wardley visited Denmark to speak to leading experts and organisations doing innovative work to improve mental health outcomes for suicide-bereaved children that could be replicated in the UK.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Special Report

    Features
  • 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.

Therapeutic Communities: Special Report

There has been a recent rise in interest from policymakers and commissioners in the important role therapeutic communities play in supporting some of the most traumatised children and young people.

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