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Rotherham DCS calls for child sexual exploitation training reforms

Thursday, September 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Child sexual exploitation (CSE) training should be part of university social work courses, the director of children's services (DCS) for Rotherham has said.

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Blackpool are improving but problems remain with support for care leavers and planning for looked-after children, inspectors have found.

London lord mayor Fiona Woolf to lead child sexual abuse inquiry

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Friday, September 5, 2014

| CYP Now

The current lord mayor of London Fiona Woolf will lead an independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse, the government has announced.

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly 500 children in Manchester were potentially left at risk because social work assessments were not carried out quickly enough, a report that has rated the city's children's services as "inadequate", has found.

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

| CYP Now

It is now one week since an independent report by Professor Alexis Jay estimated that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. CYP Now looks at what has happened since publication last Tuesday.

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on children's social care has increased by more than five per cent in a single year, government figures show.

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

| CYP Now

A new director of children's services has been appointed by Birmingham City Council to turn around the troubled department.

Quality of serious case reviews blasted by independent panel

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Friday, August 1, 2014

| CYP Now

The quality of child death reviews are "disturbingly variable" with far too many failing to find out what went wrong, a damning report by a government appointed panel has found.

Child protection outsourcing plans 'dead in the water', claims Loughton

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Controversial plans to allow councils to outsource child protection services are "dead in the water" following the departure of Michael Gove from the Department for Education, former children's minister Tim Loughton has claimed.

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

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Friday, July 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Numbers of pupils to top eight million by 2023; London mayor launches drive to tackle child obesity; and school extremism report leaked, all in the news today.

Exclusive: Analysis links director of children's services retention to Ofsted rating

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities that keep hold of their directors of children's services (DCS) perform better in Ofsted inspections than those that change regularly, exclusive analysis by CYP Now has found.

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's consultation over allowing councils to delegate children's social care services to third parties was insufficient and needs further debate, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on child protection has said.

Government accused of allowing 'back door' privatisation of child protection

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Friday, June 27, 2014

| CYP Now

Private companies will be able to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans via the "back door" by setting up separate subsidiaries, it has been claimed.

Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities must do more to prevent the deaths of more than 60 children each year from preventable accidents, a report has found.

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

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Friday, June 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

NCB unveils new chief executive

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The National Children's Bureau (NCB) has announced that Anna Feuchtwang is to become its new chief executive.

Narey defends private sector role in child protection

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's adviser on children's social care has defended proposals to allow child protection services to be outsourced, which he said does not amount to large-scale privatisation.

Regional network to help boost adoption numbers

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Monday, May 19, 2014

| CYP Now

A network of regional adoption leadership boards is being created to assist national efforts to improve recruitment in the sector.

New Barnardo's chief eyes strategic role in children's services

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Barnardo's new chief executive wants the charity to manage, commission and deliver statutory children's services in partnership with local authorities as it evolves into a more strategic organisation over the next few years.

‘Decision fatigue' blights social work practice

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Monday, April 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's social workers avoid making decisions later in the working day due to mental exhaustion, an analysis of child protection practitioners' behaviour has shown.

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils will be handed powers to outsource a whole range of children's social care services including child protection under proposals announced by the government.

ADCS president Alan Wood backs councils to drive social care improvement

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

| CYP Now

The new president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said local authorities need to be at the centre of driving improvement in children's services.

Timpson announces study into children's services outsourcing

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The government is to investigate the potential for large-scale outsourcing of local authority children's services.

SCRs need greater prevention focus, says NSPCC chief

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Serious case reviews (SCRs) need to focus more on learning the lessons from child protection failings to prevent them happening again, the head of the NSPCC has said.

Public sceptical of charities' role in delivering services

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Thursday, March 6, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly a quarter of the public believe charities are becoming too involved in delivering state services, research by a think-tank shows.

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Rotherham DCS calls for child sexual exploitation training reforms

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

London lord mayor Fiona Woolf to lead child sexual abuse inquiry

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

Quality of serious case reviews blasted by independent panel

Child protection outsourcing plans 'dead in the water', claims Loughton

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

Exclusive: Analysis links director of children's services retention to Ofsted rating

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

Government accused of allowing 'back door' privatisation of child protection

Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

NCB unveils new chief executive

Narey defends private sector role in child protection

Regional network to help boost adoption numbers

New Barnardo's chief eyes strategic role in children's services

‘Decision fatigue' blights social work practice

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

ADCS president Alan Wood backs councils to drive social care improvement

Timpson announces study into children's services outsourcing

SCRs need greater prevention focus, says NSPCC chief

Public sceptical of charities' role in delivering services

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