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Care applications hit seven-year high after CSE scandals

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Recent child sexual exploitation (CSE) scandals have contributed to a dramatic rise in the number of care applications, say care experts.

Battle lines drawn in future of IROs debate

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Monday, April 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Independent reviewing officers (IRO) appear split over whether to back plans to take the role out of council control.

Specialist substance misuse family court set for expansion

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

| CYP Now

The Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) initiative is to be expanded across five more areas after a £2.5m investment through the government's Children's Social Care Innovation Fund.

Adoption placement order decline continues unabated

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of children having adoption placement orders granted continued to spiral downwards over the summer, latest official figures show.

Cafcass study highlights CSE learning from case reviews

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) may be so influenced by abusers that they are unable to provide full or accurate accounts of their experiences to safeguarding professionals, analysis has concluded.

Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

| CYP Now

The body set up to oversee the adoption system has issued guidance in an effort to halt a sharp slump in the number of court orders being made for children to be adopted.

Children to be given greater voice in care proceedings

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

| CYP Now

More will be done to ensure children over the age of 10 who are involved in care proceedings or custody cases have their views heard in court, the government has announced.

Faster court process cuts residential parenting assessments

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Monday, July 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Social workers are scaling back their use of residential parenting assessments due to Children and Families Act changes to the length of care proceedings, latest government research has found.

Most councils report fall in care applications

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

| CYP Now

The majority of English councils have recorded an annual drop in the number of children in care applications, according to figures released by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass).

26-week target ‘could limit help for substance misusing parents'

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Thursday, May 1, 2014

| CYP Now

The effectiveness of a specialist court to tackle parental substance misuse could be undermined as a result of the introduction of the 26-week care proceedings target, academics have warned.

Daily roundup: Inspections, sex education, and child health

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Cafcass gets "good" rating from Ofsted; role of PSHE to be assessed by MPs; and government consults on allowing schools to keep spare asthma inhalers, all in the news today.

Children face three-year wait for care case decisions

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Friday, December 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Dozens of care proceedings cases initiated more than three years ago remain unresolved leaving vulnerable children with uncertain futures.

Expert witness fee cut could 'hinder' family court judges

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Monday, December 2, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's lawyers and social work bodies have raised concerns that it will be harder to find expert witnesses to give evidence in care cases due to a cut in fees paid to them through the legal aid system.

Guardians maintain child contact levels, study suggests

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Friday, November 29, 2013

| CYP Now

The amount of time children's guardians spend with children subject to care proceedings has not been adversely affected by the sustained and significant rise in care applications over the past decade, research suggests.

Call for national approach to pre-proceedings work

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Friday, November 1, 2013

| CYP Now

A legal expert is calling for the introduction of a national approach for working with vulnerable families before care proceedings are launched.

NCAS Conference: Pre-court work cuts care cases, study finds

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Monday, October 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Pre-proceedings case work in six councils piloting new ways of dealing with care applications cut the number of cases going to court by a quarter, analysis has shown.

Cafcass chief wary over recent fall in care applications

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

| CYP Now

The head of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has dampened hopes that a recent decrease in new care applications represents the start of a sustained fall in children needing protection.

Family court judges back independent social worker role

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Independent social workers (ISWs) speed up care proceedings and their expertise is instrumental in deciding on complex cases, according to a survey of family court judges.

Substance misuse family courts to be expanded

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Friday, July 5, 2013

| CYP Now

At least two new specialist substance misuse family courts are to be set up thanks to £150,000 of government funding.

Families and Children Bill to reform SEN and adoption systems

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

| CYP Now

The Queen has outlined the details of a new Families and Children Bill in her first speech to parliament since the coalition was formed in 2010.

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Care applications hit seven-year high after CSE scandals

Battle lines drawn in future of IROs debate

Specialist substance misuse family court set for expansion

Adoption placement order decline continues unabated

Cafcass study highlights CSE learning from case reviews

Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

Children to be given greater voice in care proceedings

Faster court process cuts residential parenting assessments

Most councils report fall in care applications

26-week target ‘could limit help for substance misusing parents'

Daily roundup: Inspections, sex education, and child health

Children face three-year wait for care case decisions

Expert witness fee cut could 'hinder' family court judges

Guardians maintain child contact levels, study suggests

Call for national approach to pre-proceedings work

NCAS Conference: Pre-court work cuts care cases, study finds

Cafcass chief wary over recent fall in care applications

Family court judges back independent social worker role

Substance misuse family courts to be expanded

Families and Children Bill to reform SEN and adoption systems

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