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Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local authorities to find a wider range of care options for vulnerable children and introduce a greater array of good practice approaches to improve outcomes.

Leadership: Scaling up interventions

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

| CYP Now

Once the value of an innovative intervention for children and families has been recognised, the next step is to effectively implement and replicate it on a scale that can benefit even more people.

Senior Tories call for cabinet-level families post

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

| CYP Now

More than 50 Tory MPs and peers are calling on the government to create a cabinet-level families minister post to better co-ordinate family policy across departments.

NCAS conference: ADCS president urges investment to reduce care numbers

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils must invest heavily in early intervention services in order to stem recent increases in the number of children being taken into care.

Outcomes-based commissioner: Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children

Analysis

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes talks to Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children.

Ask the Experts: Retain a strong voice for children

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on the future of DCSs, helping children of substance misusers, improving speech skills and conflict resolution.

Research Report: National Survey of Injury Prevention Activities of Children's Centres

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

There is a lot of research into the role children's centres play in improving outcomes for disadvantaged families. However, researchers from the University of Nottingham were keen to investigate centres' role in preventing injuries to under-fives, an area not previously analysed. Previous research has found injuries disproportionately affect children from low-income families.

Youth Mental Health: New Economic Evidence

Research

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

Study of the economic impact of youth mental health services in the UK.

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the scale of child neglect, its long-term effect on children's wellbeing and how interventions can prevent and repair the damage caused to children's ability to form strong attachments with parents and carers.

The future of children's services: proactive, predictive and digital

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

If children's services are to deliver improved outcomes with declining resources, the sector must embrace technology, joint working and volunteers, says Pillars and Foundations, a radical paper from the ADCS.

Key steps that will improve play services for disabled children

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

| CYP Now

A charity has devised a blueprint for improved access to good quality play provision for disabled children under five through more national funding, investing in childcare providers' facilities, making play a statutory service and enforcing equalities law.

Evaluating early intervention

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Intervening early can prevent problems escalating and save money in the long term. But how do services demonstrate this? Joe Lepper asked a range of experts for advice on effective evaluation.

Ask the Experts: Be smart on your return to work

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Our expert panel offers advice on returning to work after absence, effective nursery websites, personal boundaries and young refugees.

Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

CYP Now has collected the views of children's services experts from a range of backgrounds to hear what they think the key challenges and opportunities will be in 2016 across services for children, young people and families.

Ask the Experts: Accessing mental health funding

Best Practice

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on mental health services funding, inappropriate sexual behaviour, safeguarding and a nursery compost heap.

Ofsted rates council 'inadequate' for second time in two years

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

| CYP Now

A council's children's services department has been rated "inadequate" for the second time in two years after Ofsted inspectors found widespread failings in services for vulnerable children.

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders gathered at CYP Now's Early Help Conference to discuss latest policy developments in early help and hear how local areas are developing interventions across a range of settings and age groups.

Housing crisis highlights failure to meet children's basic needs

Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

When it comes to identifying priorities for improving children's services, it is understandable that many of us turn our attention to the issues that are the focus of our daily professional lives.

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?

Ofsted finds improvement in social care assessment practice

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services professionals are improving the way they undertake assessments of vulnerable children's needs, an Ofsted inspection has found.

Specialists key to childcare offer

Monday, August 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Educational psychology services are vital to ensure the free childcare expansion succeeds, says Kate Fallon.

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

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.

Ofsted moves to ease children's services inspection burden

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted will spend fewer days "on site" during inspections of local authority children's services as part of efforts to ease the impact of the process, CYP Now has learned.

Cafcass chief: care application rises set to continue