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Ask the Experts: Christmas activities at nursery

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

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Our panel offers advice on Christmas activities at nurseries, tackling self-harm, managing budget proposals and secret engagements.

Ask The Experts: Helping a child with dyspraxia

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

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Our panel offers advice on dyspraxia, sexually transmitted infections, countering radicalisation and a councillor speaking out of turn.

Somerset row shows DCSs need greater authority

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

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It is rare for the sacking of a director of children's services (DCS) to be played out in public, but that has been the case in Somerset over the past week.

Doncaster's deliverer

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Monday, October 13, 2014

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Neil Puffett speaks to Paul Moffat, chief executive, Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

Welfare of children must be a shared responsibility

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Monday, September 29, 2014

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Back in 2005, I became responsible for children's services in Dudley. With my new responsibility for social care, I followed the usual learning journey - the "unconsciously incompetent" phase, when I didn't even know what I was ignorant about, to the "consciously incompetent" phase, when I realised how much I didn't know, to the "consciously competent", when I had a better understanding but still did not have any sort of autopilot.

Ask the Experts: Deter young people from drugs

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Monday, September 1, 2014

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Our panel offers advice on "legal highs", saving money while safeguarding, partnership working concerns and coping with hot weather.

Daily roundup: Food poverty, SEN reforms and 'paedophile panic'

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Friday, August 22, 2014

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Poorer parents struggle to feed their children during the summer holidays; Department for Education publishes child-friendly guide to the special educational needs reforms; and judge warns of "paedophile panic", all in the news today.

Daily roundup: FGM arrest, Walsall Council, and children's centres

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Monday, July 28, 2014

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Two people arrested in suspected FGM case; government lifts improvement notice on Walsall children's services department; and plans announced to reorganise children's centres in Bradford, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Shoesmith compensation, council spending, and school standards

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

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Details emerge of Sharon Shoesmith compensation deal; Somerset criticised for amount spent on children's services leaders; and academies best for supporting disadvantaged pupils, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Haringey Ofsted, early intervention guidebook, and term-time holidays

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Monday, July 21, 2014

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Haringey told to improve children's social care, major early intervention guide launched, and Nicky Morgan pledges to continue tough stance on term-time holidays, all in the news today.

Ask the Experts: Spur on staff to meet SEN reforms

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Monday, June 23, 2014

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Our expert panel offers advice on SEN and disability reforms, nursery transition, tackling sexual exploitation and examining gender roles.

Daily roundup: Inspections, financial management and mental health

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

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East Sussex children's social care judged "good" by Ofsted; spend on agency staff triples at Windsor children's services; and new chair announced for mental health body, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Child support, missing children and outsourcing

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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Changes to child maintenance system; new national missing children's campaign launches; and children's services chief enters outsourcing debate, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Child protection, mental health and early years

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Monday, May 19, 2014

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Academics criticise government plans to outsource children's social care; NHS England raises concerns over failure to meet child mental health needs; and nursery to investigate after toddler found wandering streets, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Drug treatment, Doncaster children's services, and foster care

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

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Four-year-olds referred for drug and alcohol treatment; launch date for independent children's services trust in Doncaster delayed a month; and call for long-term foster care to be used more, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Children's services, leadership and child protection

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

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Hampshire children's services receive "good" Ofsted judgment; Salford DCS to become Solihull chief executive; and Bristol gets new child protection service, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Free school meals, policing and council cuts

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Thursday, March 6, 2014

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Small schools to get funding to deliver free school meals; taser use rises fivefold in five years; and Islington children's services hit with £4m cut, all in the news today.

First judgments show up flaws in new single inspection system

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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Senior managers at the first five children's services departments to have undergone the new Ofsted single inspection support the principles behind the framework, but think the process needs improving if it is to get their full backing.

Ask the Experts: Help a child suffering from OCD

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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Our panel offers advice on coping with OCD, inducting a lead member, helping a child whose mother drinks and learning from weather.

Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

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Wilshaw reveals he called for Ofsted chair to remain; leaving foster care age for young people in Wales raised; and £500,000 fund set up to help male victims of rape, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Careers guidance, council cuts, and smoking

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

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Call for government to extend National Careers Service; research shows cuts affecting deprived areas more; and Lords back bid to ban smoking in cars, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Child grooming, health and wellbeing, and youth services

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

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Children's professionals struggle to keep pace with child abusers' tactics; 23 campaign groups highlight need for child-friendly policies; and Bracknell Forest youth hub set to open by 2016, all in the news today.

How joint working protects young people at risk

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

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Merton improves co-ordination between services to safeguard young people from abuse.

Daily roundup: Fuel poverty, sexual offences, and the benefit cap

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Monday, January 13, 2014

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Families planning to cut down on food to cover heating costs; 20 per cent rise in sexual offences against children; and 33,000 now affected by government benefit cap, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Hospital care, child protection and respite centres

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Friday, January 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Safety fears at Alder Hey Children's Hospital; child protection concerns spark government direction; and Essex's respite care centres face closure, all in the news today.

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Ask the Experts: Christmas activities at nursery

Ask The Experts: Helping a child with dyspraxia

Somerset row shows DCSs need greater authority

Doncaster's deliverer

Welfare of children must be a shared responsibility

Ask the Experts: Deter young people from drugs

Daily roundup: Food poverty, SEN reforms and 'paedophile panic'

Daily roundup: FGM arrest, Walsall Council, and children's centres

Daily roundup: Shoesmith compensation, council spending, and school standards

Daily roundup: Haringey Ofsted, early intervention guidebook, and term-time holidays

Ask the Experts: Spur on staff to meet SEN reforms

Daily roundup: Inspections, financial management and mental health

Daily roundup: Child support, missing children and outsourcing

Daily roundup: Child protection, mental health and early years

Daily roundup: Drug treatment, Doncaster children's services, and foster care

Daily roundup: Children's services, leadership and child protection

Daily roundup: Free school meals, policing and council cuts

First judgments show up flaws in new single inspection system

Ask the Experts: Help a child suffering from OCD

Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims

Daily roundup: Careers guidance, council cuts, and smoking

Daily roundup: Child grooming, health and wellbeing, and youth services

How joint working protects young people at risk

Daily roundup: Fuel poverty, sexual offences, and the benefit cap

Daily roundup: Hospital care, child protection and respite centres

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