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All primary school pupils to be taught about abuse

Monday, September 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Volunteers will visit every primary school in the UK at least once every two years under plans to prevent abuse by teaching children about the issue.

Children's services leaders urge action on home schooling

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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders have called for tougher regulation of home schooling after it emerged that the number of children being educated outside of schools is rising fast.

Ofsted chief renews plea for tougher powers to tackle illegal schools

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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

| CYP Now

Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman has made a renewed plea for greater powers to tackle unregistered schools, amid concerns children's safety is being put at risk.

Queen's Speech: Plans to scrap free school meals and create new grammars dropped

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

| CYP Now

Plans to scrap free school meals for primary school children and allow new grammar schools to be opened have not featured in the government's legislative plans for the new parliament.

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Plans to improve teacher standards announced, positive response to "adoption party" pilots, and LGA call for council role in education, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

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Monday, April 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Rochdale faces legal action over care comments; no further action against former youth police and crime commissioner, and half of youth service jobs to go in Warwickshire, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Junk food, child porn and social work ethics

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Food firms accused of bypassing ad rules, government summit to tackle child porn online, and a code of ethics for social workers, all in the news today.

Timpson to lead DfE review of school exclusions

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Monday, March 12, 2018

| CYP Now

Former children's minister Edward Timpson is to lead a review into school exclusions, the Department for Education has confirmed.

CSE in Middlesbrough ‘a growing problem'

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Friday, October 3, 2014

| CYP Now

Child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Middlesbrough is "extremely prevalent" according to a council report into the issue.

Deputy commissioner slams failure to address sex offending by boys

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

| CYP Now

England's deputy children's commissioner has hit out at the lack of work being done to address sexual offending with young people in secure settings.

Ofsted issues warning notices to 31 unregistered schools

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Thursday, July 13, 2017

| CYP Now

Ofsted has issued a total of 31 warning notices to unregistered schools since establishing a special taskforce 18 months ago, it has emerged.

Huge increase in child-on-child sex offences

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Friday, February 3, 2017

| CYP Now

The number of reported cases of children committing sexual offences against other children has increased by 78 per cent since 2013, research by Barnardo's has found.

ADCS defends social workers over safeguarding assessments

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders have defended council child protection teams over suggestions they are not investigating safeguarding concerns raised by schools quickly enough.

New Rotherham children's chief slams schools over continuing failure to tackle CSE

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Friday, March 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Rotherham's director of children's services has condemned an "astonishing" lack of engagement by schools to tackle child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the borough while urging a greater focus and respect for youth work.

LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

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Friday, February 5, 2016

| CYP Now

Uncertainty over the future of serious case reviews (SCRs) is damaging local safeguarding arrangements, local safeguarding children board (LSCB) leaders have warned.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

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Monday, January 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Sweeping reform of the youth justice system is necessary to prevent hundreds of children being "needlessly" criminalised and sentenced to custody, according to a think-tank.

Education Secretary pledges action to tackle school exclusion rates

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

| CYP Now

Education secretary Damien Hinds wants schools that are successfully dealing with challenging pupils to be central to efforts to tackle high exclusion rates across England.

School-based charity reports rapid rise in safeguarding concerns

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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

| CYP Now

A school-based child and family support charity has reported a trebling in the proportion of cases it deals with over the last six years where there is a safeguarding concern.

Pelka report highlights practice and management failings

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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Poor social work practice and management combined with high caseloads at Coventry's children's services were factors in child protection systems failing to prevent the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka, a new review into his case has concluded.

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.

Councils should tap into school early help funding, says ADCS

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Friday, January 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Cash-strapped local authorities could work more collaboratively with schools in order to deliver early intervention services, the president-elect of the Association of Directors of Children's Services has said.

Durham adopts training for professionals to spot CSE

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Durham has become the first area in the country to adopt a US training initiative to help police officers and other professionals to better identify child sexual exploitation (CSE).

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Police must be given greater discretion when dealing with children who share explicit pictures of themselves so that their future life chances are not harmed, a group of MPs and peers has said.

Labour backs mandatory reporting

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

| CYP Now

Mandatory reporting should be introduced in order to protect children from abuse, Labour has said.

DfE faces legal action over pupil isolation booths

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Thursday, April 4, 2019

| CYP Now

Two families have threatened the Department for Education with legal action over what they claim is unclear guidance on the use of pupil isolation - after their children with SEN were held for long periods.

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All primary school pupils to be taught about abuse

Children's services leaders urge action on home schooling

Ofsted chief renews plea for tougher powers to tackle illegal schools

Queen's Speech: Plans to scrap free school meals and create new grammars dropped

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

Daily roundup: Junk food, child porn and social work ethics

Timpson to lead DfE review of school exclusions

CSE in Middlesbrough ‘a growing problem'

Deputy commissioner slams failure to address sex offending by boys

Ofsted issues warning notices to 31 unregistered schools

Huge increase in child-on-child sex offences

ADCS defends social workers over safeguarding assessments

New Rotherham children's chief slams schools over continuing failure to tackle CSE

LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

Education Secretary pledges action to tackle school exclusion rates

School-based charity reports rapid rise in safeguarding concerns

Pelka report highlights practice and management failings

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Councils should tap into school early help funding, says ADCS

Durham adopts training for professionals to spot CSE

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

Labour backs mandatory reporting

DfE faces legal action over pupil isolation booths

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