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National strategy needed to reduce risk for runaway children

Thursday, March 17, 2011

| CYP Now

A government minister must take responsibility for runaway children and drive a national strategy to improve support for children at risk on the streets in the UK it has been agreed.

Judge calls on councils to review support for homeless teenagers

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

| CYP Now

Councils are being urged to improve their support for homeless teenagers, following a damning Court of Appeal judgment against Lambeth Council.

Worcestershire unveils policy to charge parents of looked-after children

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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.

Almost half of youth homelessness caused by parents

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly half of young people end up homeless because their parents refuse to house them, a study has revealed.

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.

Housing benefit axe could drive up youth homelessness, warns YMCA

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Friday, June 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to withdraw housing benefit for 18- to 21-year-olds threatens to decimate efforts to tackle youth homelessness and unemployment, YMCA England has warned.

Watchdog tells councils not to use B&Bs for young homeless people

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Bed and breakfast accommodation is not a suitable place to house young homeless people, the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has warned councils.

Kids Company chief defends failure to pass all cases to councils

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Collapsed children's charity Kids Company has failed to hand over to local authorities all the cases of vulnerable children and young people it was dealing with, its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh has told MPs.

Tenancy measures will improve family stability, says Pickles

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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has published measures to improve the standards of private-sector rented housing and encourage longer-term tenancies that offer more stability for families.

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.

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

| CYP Now

Nearly six months since professor Alexis Jay's report revealed the extent of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, the government's troubled families tsar Louise Casey's has pulled no punches in her assessment of how the authority has fared since.

Lack of support to blame for care leaver housing problems, report finds

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Monday, September 21, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services departments are not doing enough to secure good quality housing support for care leavers and other vulnerable teenagers, The Children's Society has said.

Centrepoint in talks over pay cuts and redundancies

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Friday, June 17, 2011

| CYP Now

Redundancies and pay cuts are being considered at homeless charity Centrepoint as the organisation deals with the impact of the economic situation, it has emerged.

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's services chiefs are being called upon to share information about how their departments can deliver effective services while managing challenging budgets.

Benefit cuts to be challenged in High Court

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

| CYP Now

A High Court judge is set to rule on the legality of controversial housing benefit cuts after a child poverty charity launched a legal challenge.

LGBT young people ‘more likely to be homeless'

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) young people are more likely to be homeless compared with their non-LGBT peers, a report has claimed.?

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

Ombudsman criticises council's failure to support homeless 16-year-old

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has been rebuked for the second time in two years by the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) for its treatment of homeless young people.

MP calls for emergency housing programme to help families in crisis

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Friday, May 6, 2011

| CYP Now

A housing crisis in the London Borough of Hillingdon has left families living in "developing world conditions", according to the area's MP.

Young people face 'housing crisis'

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Monday, July 8, 2013

| CYP Now

More hostels and supported accommodation will be needed by the end of the decade to house young people who become homeless because a shortage of affordable homes is reaching crisis point, it has been claimed.

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National strategy needed to reduce risk for runaway children

Judge calls on councils to review support for homeless teenagers

Worcestershire unveils policy to charge parents of looked-after children

Almost half of youth homelessness caused by parents

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Housing benefit axe could drive up youth homelessness, warns YMCA

Watchdog tells councils not to use B&Bs for young homeless people

Kids Company chief defends failure to pass all cases to councils

Tenancy measures will improve family stability, says Pickles

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

Lack of support to blame for care leaver housing problems, report finds

Centrepoint in talks over pay cuts and redundancies

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Benefit cuts to be challenged in High Court

LGBT young people ‘more likely to be homeless'

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

Ombudsman criticises council's failure to support homeless 16-year-old

MP calls for emergency housing programme to help families in crisis

Young people face 'housing crisis'

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