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Ofsted to delay first supported accommodation inspections

Thursday, February 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Ofsted will delay inspections of supported accommodation for 16- and 17-year-olds for six months after receiving an “exceptionally high” number of registration requests, the inspectorate has announced.

Interview: Ruth Marvel, chief executive of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award

Features

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes speaks to the chief executive of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme.

Children’s services spending ‘biggest short-term pressure for councils’, say leaders

News

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

| CYP Now

Spending on children’s services, including support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), is the biggest short-term pressure facing local authorities struggling to balance their budgets, according to two-thirds of councils.

Scouts putting ‘the lives of young people at risk’, warns coroner

News

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

| CYP Now

The Scout Association lacks a “culture of candour” and is “institutionally defensive”, a coroner has warned following the death of a 16-year-old boy who fell from a beauty spot in Wales while on a trip with the organisation.

A new blueprint for secure care

Features

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

| CYP Now

A shortage of secure placements is affecting the wellbeing of some of the UK’s most vulnerable children. A new research partnership is working with the sector to find out what needs to change.

Additional funding to support 14 new children’s mental health hubs

News

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

| CYP Now

The government’s early help hubs scheme, designed to enable young people to access mental health services in their community, is set to expand across 14 more areas in England.

Government issues direction notice to council amid ongoing SEND failures

News

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

| CYP Now

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council has been issued with a government direction notice over long term failures to improve support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Childcare staff bonus concerns

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

Although £1,000 incentive payment is welcomed some say it won’t tackle sector’s retention problems.

SEND support flaws exposed

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

Rising appeals over provision and furore over councillors’ remarks reveal wider system problems.

Improving agencies’ response to tackling serious youth violence

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

Review of cases in the London borough of Croydon highlights how safeguarding organisations need to work with vulnerable children as early as possible to reduce the risk of them getting involved in violent incidents

Mermaids’ chief Lauren Stoner on the future of the charity and LGBTQ+ inclusivity

Features

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

LGBTQ+ charity Mermaids is moving forward after an "unprecedentedly difficult time", its new chief executive Lauren Stoner tells CYP Now.

Nurseries question ability to deliver on funded childcare expansion

News

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

More than half of nurseries across the country are unsure of their ability to offer additional places to two-year-olds in line with the government's planned expansion of funded childcare hours, new research has shown.

Changes to turn tide on adoption decline

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

A more inclusive system that better meets children’s, adopters’ and birth families’ needs can reverse fall in adoptions, says expert.

Education is key to tackling rise in child harmful sexual behaviour

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

You only have to take a brief glance through the Everyone’s Invited list of UK schools where pupils have experienced sexual harassment and assault to understand that child-on-child sexual abuse is rife.

In the new edition of CYP Now: Youth apprenticeships special; secure children’s homes; youth violence review

News

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

The latest news, views, analysis and practice advice on services for children, young people and families is packed into the March edition of Children & Young People Now.

Latest figures highlight council youth services at a crossroads

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

YMCA analysis of trends in local authority youth services spending and provision show improvement in all measures, but experts are divided on whether it represents a short-term trend or signs of a wider recovery.

Kinship carers call for investment in spring budget

News

Monday, February 26, 2024

| CYP Now

A group of Kinship carers has written to the Treasury's Chief Secretary Laura Trott calling for more financial help to be allocated to those in the role at next week's spring budget.

Expanded childcare offer underfunded by £5bn, researchers warn

News

Monday, February 26, 2024

| CYP Now

The gap between the government’s £4.3 billion investment in the expansion of funded childcare and the cost of delivering the hours for providers could lead to a £5 billion shortfall, a think tank has warned.

Doing the best job of your life

Blogs

Monday, February 26, 2024

| CYP Now

I do love a quote. It is incredible that human beings throughout history have created so much insight and inspiration through quotes.

Celebrating apprentices in the early years

Blogs

Monday, February 26, 2024

| CYP Now

I love apprentices… especially the LEYF apprentices. They are the next generation of early years teachers and, in my experience, they are amongst some of the best new talent we have across the whole sector.

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