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#Chances4Children: Young people reconnect with nature

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  • Tuesday, January 26, 2021
  • | CYP Now
An inner-city council developed an outdoor schools programme to help disadvantaged children and young people spend time in nature and learn skills such as den building, orienteering and fire lighting following months of lockdown.

Contextual Safeguarding: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, January 5, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Contextual Safeguarding is an approach developed in 2011 as a result of work carried out by DrCarlene Firmin, principal research fellow at the University of Bedfordshire (see expert view, below). Her three-year review of responses to peer-on-peer abuse, found that 90 per cent of cases involved contextual factors which child protection systems and practices struggled to deal with.

Virtual commissioning

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  • Tuesday, January 5, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Virtual commissioning is here to stay, and when done well there are benefits for commissioners and children, says Toni Badnall.

Youth Justice: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Since winning a sizeable majority at last December’s general election, the Conservative government has continued to build on reforms to the youth justice system set in train by the previous administration.

Chances4Children: London nursery steps up call for shoes

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  • Tuesday, October 27, 2020
  • | CYP Now
After seeing children attend nursery wearing winter boots during the summer months, manager of Angel Pre-school Christel Brown took to social media to ask shoe companies if they could donate shoes for disadvantaged children.

Residential care research evidence

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  • Tuesday, October 27, 2020
  • | CYP Now
After 48 years of involvement in residential child care, this year has seen me taking some time to reflect on where residential child care is now and where it might be going. One aspect of reflection has been regarding knowledge and knowledge production.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Research evidence

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  • Tuesday, September 29, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traditionally understood as 10 forms of abuse, neglect and family dysfunction that typically increase children’s experiences of trauma and stress.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, September 29, 2020
  • | CYP Now
The basis for much of the work in the UK and internationally on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is drawn from a 1997 US study by CDC Kaiser on childhood traumas. This study identified a list of 10 ACEs that then formed the basis for a questionnaire used by researchers as a screening tool to assess the impact of childhood trauma on adults.

Inspections Clinic - Workforce stability Q&A

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  • Tuesday, July 28, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Research highlights the link between a stable workforce and better outcomes for children. Ofsted’s Yvette Stanley tells Jo Stephenson how it is assessing workforce stability across children’s social care services

Research - Report: Care-experienced Young People and Higher Education

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  • Tuesday, July 28, 2020
  • | CYP Now
In the UK, children and young people who have been in care are significantly less likely to progress into higher education. Researchers from Cardiff University’s Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (Cascade) set out to explore the expectations of young people in care when it came to higher education and how expectations change over time.

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