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Friday, January 29, 2021

A new programme providing what organisers are calling a "radical blueprint" to reduce reoffending in the youth justice system will begin working with young people in London next month.

Serious mental health conditions in children up 50 per cent in three years

Thursday, January 28, 2021

A dramatic rise in serious mental health conditions in children over the last three years has been revealed in a damning report by the children’s commissioner for England.

Black safeguarding professionals face career barriers due to ethnicity, new study warns

Thursday, January 28, 2021

More than 60 per cent of black safeguarding professionals feel their ethnicity has “resulted in barriers being imposed on them in their career”, new research shows.

Lifelong Links delivers positive outcomes for children, research shows

Thursday, January 28, 2021

The Department for Education has heaped praise on a programme aimed at helping children in care maintain positive relationships with family members.

'Free must mean free' when it comes to childcare, ombudsman says

Thursday, January 28, 2021

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has called for councils to ensure greater transparency over free early years places.

Pandemic sparks ‘perfect storm’ for increase in online child sexual abuse

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Almost half of British police officers have reported a rise in online grooming of children during the coronavirus pandemic, a report has warned.

Delivery drivers and tradesmen offered free training to spot child abuse during lockdown

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Postal workers and gas engineers are among professionals to be offered free training to help spot child abuse and neglect during lockdown.

Schools could reopen from 8 March, Boris Johnson says

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Schools in England could start to reopen from 8 March, Boris Johnson has said, pledging to set out further plans late next month.

Early years workers struggle to access school places

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Early years leaders have called on schools to allow childcare staff access to places reserved for the children of critical workers.

How Covid-19 remade children’s services

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

A year on from the emergence of the coronavirus and onset of the pandemic, experts assess the long-term impact of the disruption it has caused to children’s services and young people’s lives.

Lockdown response: how services deliver vital support for children

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Early years, education and youth work services are working hard to ensure children and young people can access learning and support amid the pandemic, but sector leaders worry financial pressures could lead to closures.

Enhancing Outcomes of Low-Intensity Parenting Groups Through Sufficient Exemplar Training: A Randomized Control Trial

Research

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Low-intensity parenting programmes play an important role in a public health approach to parenting support that aims to reduce the prevalence of child conduct problems at a population level.

Local Connections Fund

Funding

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Small youth and community groups in England can bid for a share of £4m earmarked to support isolated people and tackle loneliness.

Support child self-regulation

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The pandemic has affected children’s development; expert outlines how childcare settings can help.

Review must include needs of care leavers

Opinion

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Analysing the dozens of different issues and factors that influence how the children’s social care system in England works is no small undertaking.

The Cost-Effectiveness of UK Parenting Programmes for Preventing Children’s Behaviour Problems – A Review of the Evidence

Research

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

This paper reviews the economic evidence available to support or question claims that parenting programmes can be a cost-effective component in early intervention packages.

Guide helps children’s workers respond to sibling sexual abuse

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Sexual abuse involving child siblings is thought to be the most common form of intra-familial child sexual abuse.

Triple P helps Nottingham expand support for families

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Nottingham City Council says the adoption of Triple P has improved choice of support for families and is delivering better outcomes.

In the February edition of CYP Now: Care Review, lockdown pressures and parenting programmes

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The new edition of CYP Now is packed with the latest news, analysis and opinion on the key issues affecting all those working with disadvantaged children, young people and families.

Care Review: sector leaders set out their priorities for change

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Children’s services experts and voluntary sector chiefs want children’s social care review to deliver solutions to early help funding crisis, investment in social workers, more support for carers and the leaving care ‘cliff edge’.

Interview: Mark Russell, The Children’s Society chief executive

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Chief executive of The Children’s Society sets out his ambitious plans to Derren Hayes.

Parenting Programmes: Policy context

Other

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The focus of parenting support has tended to be on interventions with pre-school age children, such as Coram Family and Childcare’s Parent Champions programme which is a peer support network (see expert view).

#Chances4Children: Funding for youth charity supporting children affected by pandemic

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

A children’s charity working to ensure young people can experience the life-changing benefits of sport has received a grant of more than £63,300.

Youth offending services: Inspections Clinic