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Flexible working practices can reduce pull of agencies

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

| CYP Now

CYP Now’s investigation into the use of managed teams of agency social workers highlights how fragile the children’s services workforce situation is in many areas.

Make children’s access to care records a lifelong offer

Opinion

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

| CYP Now

We all feel the need to understand who we are and where we are from. Television programmes such as Who Do You Think You Are? and popular genealogy websites reflect wider social recognition of the importance of knowing about our past.

Adoption system failings harm children’s life chances

Opinion

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

| CYP Now

The adoption system in England is not working for children. There is overwhelming evidence that adoption is an excellent permanence option for children who had the toughest of starts in life. Yet, despite record numbers of looked-after children, only 2,870 adoptions were made in 2020/21 compared with 5,360 in 2015.

Mark Owers: It’s time to abolish the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board

Opinion

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

| CYP Now

The government launched the Adoption Leadership Board in December 2013, to help drive sector-led improvement through monitoring the adoption system, providing data on performance, and disseminating best practice.

Safeguarding reforms must include funding

Opinion

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

| CYP Now

The safeguarding failings identified in the Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes panel review are sadly all too familiar.

Care-experienced young people need protection from cost of living crisis

Opinion

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

| CYP Now

While financial pressure is being felt by more than two-thirds of the population, a considerable proportion of care experienced 18-25-year-olds are already finding basic necessities are out of reach.

Collaboration key to creating more children’s homes

Opinion

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

| CYP Now

How one provider overcame obstacles to set up a children’s home.

Range of measures can fix foster carer shortage

Opinion

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes editor, Children & Young People Nowderren.hayes@markallengroup.com

Asylum age assessments are unethical

Opinion

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| CYP Now

The Home Office is clearly ramping up the use of age assessments for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, making inflammatory suggestions that predatory men are abusing the system by pretending to be children, and talk of new “scientific” methods of determining age.

Child deaths highlight the case for doing better

Opinion

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Hard cases make bad law. This adage has been rattling around in my head recently, prompted by the debate about whether our child protection system is fit for purpose.

Time to deliver on ‘letterbox’ contact

Opinion

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

| CYP Now

Pause works with women who have had, or are at risk of having, multiple children removed from their care.

Justice system needs to recognise impact of care

Opinion

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Intersectionality is a concept to describe the interconnected nature of social categorisations as they apply to a given individual or group, which create interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

We must do more to support adolescents at risk

Opinion

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

In October, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (FJO) published a set of papers on the theme of adolescents in care proceedings that incorporated a blend of qualitative and quantitative studies, with one notable headline finding: the number of 10- to 17-year-olds subject to care proceedings rose by 95 per cent between 2011/12 and 2019/20.

Letters to the Editor: Children will need support in ‘new normal’

Opinion

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

| CYP Now

From autumn, “bubbles” in schools are no longer needed and children under 18 years old don’t have to self-isolate if they are contacted by NHS Test and Trace as a close contact of a positive Covid-19 case. Edging closer to getting back to “normal”.

Letters to the Editor: Care Review needs radical reboot

Opinion

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

| CYP Now

In the July edition of CYP Now, there were two pages of coverage of the DfE-commissioned children’s social care review noting that the review was working closely with the Competitions and Market Authority (CMA).

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Flexible working practices can reduce pull of agencies

Make children’s access to care records a lifelong offer

Adoption system failings harm children’s life chances

Mark Owers: It’s time to abolish the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board

Safeguarding reforms must include funding

Care-experienced young people need protection from cost of living crisis

Collaboration key to creating more children’s homes

Range of measures can fix foster carer shortage

Asylum age assessments are unethical

Child deaths highlight the case for doing better

Time to deliver on ‘letterbox’ contact

Justice system needs to recognise impact of care

We must do more to support adolescents at risk

Letters to the Editor: Children will need support in ‘new normal’

Letters to the Editor: Care Review needs radical reboot

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