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Defunding post-16 qualifications risks eroding young people’s opportunities, report warns

Thursday, February 29, 2024

| CYP Now

The government is being urged to take action to tackle the erosion of opportunities for young people through the defunding of qualifications.

Three-quarters of children’s social worker vacancies filled by agency staff

News

Thursday, February 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Record levels of agency social workers were used to fill gaps in local authority children’s services teams last year, latest Department for Education data shows.

Ofsted to delay first supported accommodation inspections

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.