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Narey defends private sector role in child protection

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's adviser on children's social care has defended proposals to allow child protection services to be outsourced, which he said does not amount to large-scale privatisation.

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.

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on children's social care has increased by more than five per cent in a single year, government figures show.

Councils look to unite to deliver children's social care, survey finds

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Monday, August 7, 2017

| CYP Now

A growing number of councils plan to join forces to run children's social care services, a government survey of children's services leaders has found.

Alan Wood backs national commissioning of children's home places

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

| CYP Now

National commissioning of residential care placements for the most vulnerable children and young people could help improve service standards, Alan Wood, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

| CYP Now

More local authority children's services departments will be taken out of council control in order to tackle failure, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

New Barnardo's chief eyes strategic role in children's services

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Barnardo's new chief executive wants the charity to manage, commission and deliver statutory children's services in partnership with local authorities as it evolves into a more strategic organisation over the next few years.

Analysis backs drive for youth-led services

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Monday, November 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people and communities should be given the authority to decide the shape of youth work services in their area, a study has found.

NYA issues guidance on involving young people in commissioning

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Monday, April 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Two toolkits aimed at helping local authorities to engage young people and elected politicians in the process of commissioning services have been published by the National Youth Agency (NYA).

Cameron announces review of children's residential care system

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a major "root and branch" review of children's residential care will be conducted by government adviser Sir Martin Narey.

Timpson sceptical of trust solution for Birmingham children's services

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has played down speculation that the Department for Education plans to strip Birmingham Council of responsibility for its struggling children's social services.

Campaigners criticise progress of free childcare drive

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Early years campaigners have questioned the government's handling of its flagship childcare scheme after CYP Now revealed a widespread shortfall in the number of places available for disadvantaged two-year-olds.

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.

LGA hails "momentous" transfer of public health services for under-fives

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Parents will see "massive benefits" for their children as a result of responsibility for public health services for under-fives transferring to local authorities, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Somerset County Council has announced it has terminated the contract of the interim director of children's services (DCS) for failing to deliver improvements at the struggling authority quickly enough.

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Kent County Council is holding discussions about the possibility of outsourcing elements of its children's social care work in order to help deal with an influx of asylum-seeking children, it has emerged.

U-turn over approval process for long-distance care placements

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

| CYP Now

Directors of children's services (DCSs) will not have to personally approve care placements outside of their authority or region after initial plans to do so were watered down.

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils will be handed powers to outsource a whole range of children's social care services including child protection under proposals announced by the government.

Timpson orders creation of independent trust in Slough

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Slough are to be split off from local authority control and run by an independent trust in an attempt to improve performance, children's minister Edward Timpson has said.

Child protection outsourcing plans 'dead in the water', claims Loughton

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Controversial plans to allow councils to outsource child protection services are "dead in the water" following the departure of Michael Gove from the Department for Education, former children's minister Tim Loughton has claimed.

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

| CYP Now

It is now one week since an independent report by Professor Alexis Jay estimated that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. CYP Now looks at what has happened since publication last Tuesday.

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Blackpool are improving but problems remain with support for care leavers and planning for looked-after children, inspectors have found.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

Greenwich outsources all its children's centres

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The Royal Borough of Greenwich has selected a mixture of schools, charities and a leisure trust to run its 24 children's centres from April this year.

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Narey defends private sector role in child protection

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

Councils look to unite to deliver children's social care, survey finds

Alan Wood backs national commissioning of children's home places

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

New Barnardo's chief eyes strategic role in children's services

Analysis backs drive for youth-led services

NYA issues guidance on involving young people in commissioning

Cameron announces review of children's residential care system

Timpson sceptical of trust solution for Birmingham children's services

Campaigners criticise progress of free childcare drive

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

LGA hails "momentous" transfer of public health services for under-fives

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

U-turn over approval process for long-distance care placements

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

Timpson orders creation of independent trust in Slough

Child protection outsourcing plans 'dead in the water', claims Loughton

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Greenwich outsources all its children's centres

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