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Prospect of Covid Christmas heightening anxiety for children, study finds

Monday, November 30, 2020

More than half of children fear a difficult family Christmas, saying their parents will be worried about making it a happy time, a study has found.

Councils report influx of referrals to children’s services

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Friday, November 27, 2020

More than 600 young people a day were referred to local authority children’s services in the months following the first national lockdown, research from the County Council’s Network shows.

Little evidence to support focus on ‘toxic trio’, National Children's Bureau suggests

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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Academics have found a lack of evidence to support the children’s social care sector’s focus on the combined impact of parental mental illness, drug or alcohol abuse and domestic violence.

Care leavers experience more lonlieness and anxiety, report warns

News

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Care leavers suffer from significantly higher levels of loneliness, financial problems and anxiety than those without experience of care, a charity has warned.

Croydon Council plans to cut support for children to tackle £66m funding shortfall

News

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Cash-strapped Croydon Council has announced plans for major cuts to its support for families and disadvantaged young people.

Spending Review: What has Rishi Sunak pledged for children and young people?

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced his one-year spending review with a focus on helping the UK’s economy recover from Covid-19.

Sector ‘disappointed’ over Spending Review’s failure to do more for disadvantaged children

News

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Sector leaders have expressed “disappointment” over a lack of investment to support the most vulnerable children and young people following the announcement of Rishi Sunak’s Spending Review.

Public sector pay freeze ‘a body blow’ to frontline workers, unions say

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Education and social care unions have criticised the government’s decision to freeze pay for public sector workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Spending Review: Sector bodies set out key asks

News

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is today set to announce a one-year spending review focussed solely on helping the UK to recover from Covid-19.

Interview: Seyi Obakin, Centrepoint chief executive

Features

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Derren Hayes speaks to Centrepoint’s chief executive about youth homelessness.

Gavin Williamson acted unlawfully over children’s social care exemptions, Court of Appeal rules

News

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Education Secretary Gavin Wiliamson acted unlawfully in not consulting the children’s commissioner for England before making a raft of changes to children’s social care legislation during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Tackling foster carer decline

Analysis

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Councils and agencies must understand foster carers’ needs better if they are to boost recruitment.

Ofsted registers most children’s homes on record ‘to cope with pandemic’

News

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

More than 170 children’s homes opened across England between April and September this year “possibly to cope with the additional demand caused by Covid-19”, Ofsted has said.

Children’s commissioner calls for social care reform in stark warning to ‘negligent’ government

News

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

The children’s commissioner for England will warn politicians that local authority children’s services “are on the edge of a precipice” due to a lack of funding to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic and delays to long-awaited reforms.

CYP Now Early Help Conference: Local authorities hit by increase in demand for early intervention services

News

Monday, November 23, 2020

Local authority children’s services department’s did not experience the expected surge in demand for referrals when schools reopened in September but have seen an increase in requests for early help services, experts have said.

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