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How service targets the needs of birth parents

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

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Project supports parents whose children are being adopted and prevent repeat adoptions.

Legal Update: Restricting parental responsibility

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

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Kelly Reeve, team leader and senior legal consultant for the Child Law Advice Service, examines the restrictions that can be placed on fathers' parental responsibility in order to protect a child's welfare.

Returning home from care: guide to successful family reunification

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

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NSPCC guide sets out a five-stage process for successfully reuniting children with birth families after a period in care, and highlights how current poor social work practice and a lack of support are undermining outcomes.

Legal Update: Scrutiny of private fostering

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

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Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines changes to data collection on private fostering arrangements and what further work is needed to safeguard children and young people.

Raising awareness of neglect

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

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A new guide to neglect offers children's professionals advice on how to best identify and respond to it.

Ask the Experts: Be smart on your return to work

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

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Our expert panel offers advice on returning to work after absence, effective nursery websites, personal boundaries and young refugees.

Skills for the Job: Social media and social work

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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Social media can present difficult challenges for people working in the family courts, so how can practitioners use it securely?

Commissioner calls for action to tackle in-family child sex abuse

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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Analysis by the Children's Commissioner for England concludes that many cases of child sexual abuse go unreported because children's professionals struggle to recognise and act on the signs of in-family abuse.

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.

Early help must stem the flow of neglect cases to social care

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

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With the number of children on child protection plans due to neglect on the rise, research by the NSPCC suggests a lack of understanding is resulting in universal services referring some cases that could be managed with early help.

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

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Qualification requirements and training provision for working with children and young people is continuously adapting in line with changes in policy and practice. Charlotte Goddard provides a comprehensive overview.

Legal Update: Caring for refugee children

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Monday, September 28, 2015

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Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the UK government's response to the refugee crisis and foster care provision for refugee children.

Rebuilder of Slough: Nicola Clemo, chief executive of Slough Children's Services Trust

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Monday, September 28, 2015

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It seems wholly appropriate for an organisation charged with rebuilding the reputation of children's services in Slough that it will be doing so from offices next door to those of the giant Lego corporation.

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

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Monday, September 28, 2015

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Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

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Monday, September 28, 2015

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The Prime Minister highlighted children's social care as ripe for reform in a speech this month, with failing services handed to trusts or other providers to run. Children's services experts give their views on what this means for the years ahead

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

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Monday, September 28, 2015

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There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).