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Incentive payments: sector split over ethics and effectiveness

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Leaders say offering payments to attract foster carers will boost councils’ placement options and reduce costs, but some experts doubt that financial inducements will work and instead call for a national recruitment campaign.

Tackling the trauma of racism

Analysis

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

| CYP Now

Charities highlight the impact of racism on pupil mental health and what schools can do to combat it.

ADCS presidency to be shaped by trio of children’s services reports

Analysis

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

| CYP Now

Steve Crocker, director of children’s services at Hampshire and Isle of Wight councils, explains how his ADCS tenure looks set to be shaped by reviews of special needs services, schools and children’s social care.

Councils call for ‘more support’

Analysis

Friday, July 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Leaders say they require more funding and guidance to provide the specialist help Ukrainian refugees need.

Ban or regulation: steps to tackle agency dominance of workforce

Analysis

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

| CYP Now

Children’s services leaders say only regulation of the agency sector or an outright ban can stop rising workforce costs, but recruitment boss derides such ideas as ‘absurd’ and calls for sector to ‘work with us not against us’.

SEND support needs in custody

Analysis

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

| CYP Now

Research shows that around two-thirds to three-quarters of young people living in the youth secure estate have a special educational need or disabilities (SEND).

Lords’ legislative review should focus on role of culture change

Analysis

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| CYP Now

Since the days of Octavia Hill, we have been supporting, caring for and protecting children. Social action was followed by a plethora of new legislation, more recently the Children Act 1989, 2004 and the Children and Families Act 2014. Yet still we struggle to meet the needs and protect those children living in situations of vulnerability.

Unrest over Care Review board plans

Analysis

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| CYP Now

Charities raise concerns over plans for ‘lived-experience’ voice on Care Review implementation board.

Jury out on proposed mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse

Analysis

Friday, December 2, 2022

| CYP Now

Key sector leaders back independent inquiry recommendation that reporting of child sex abuse should be made compulsory in law, but others remain concerned that it would lead to children’s services being ‘overwhelmed’.

Economic crisis sees young people's mental health and wellbeing suffer

Analysis

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| CYP Now

The rising cost of living is adversely impacting children's mental health, resulting in a rise in referrals to health and social care services. Experts call for more funding so agencies can deliver vital support to prevent long-term harm.

Covid pressures force childcare closures

Analysis

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

| CYP Now

Falling attendance hits childcare providers’ income forcing settings to close and cut staff – prompting calls for urgent government support.

‘Commission will look for solutions to generational cycles of violence’

Analysis

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

| CYP Now

There are tens of thousands of marginalised children, all of them born with great potential, whose opportunities are being curtailed because they are growing up in circumstances that make them extremely vulnerable to involvement with gangs or criminal or sexual exploitation.

Review backs CBT use in schools

Analysis

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

| CYP Now

Study backs use of cognitive behavioural therapy in schools but lack of training and resources are barriers.

Study highlights beneficial impact of open access youth provision

Analysis

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

| CYP Now

The three-year Youth Investment Fund programme has supported the expansion of projects young people value and trust, but analysis shows inconsistent practice over collecting data and acting on feedback.

The good and bad of new school guidance on mental wellbeing

Analysis

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

| CYP Now

The Department for Education’s new guidance for teaching mental wellbeing as part of the statutory relationships, sex and health education is a welcome sign that mental health is finally being given the same prominence as physical health in schools.

Four key leaving care challenges

Analysis

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

New guide sets out what children’s professionals should do to get the best outcomes for care leavers.

Spending Round: key measures for children and family services

Analysis

Monday, September 23, 2019

| CYP Now

An extra £13bn is to be pumped into government departments in the next financial year, with local authorities and other providers of children's services set to benefit. Here, experts analyse what this means for provision.

Implications of ratios change

Analysis

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| CYP Now

The government has announced plans to relax rules on how many children childcare staff can look after.

Cases of fabricated illness rise

Analysis

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Charities warn parents of disabled children are increasingly being accused of fabricating illness.

Use EYFS review to rethink staffing

Analysis

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| CYP Now

Providers can benefit from proposed Early Years Foundation Stage Framework changes, says expert.

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Incentive payments: sector split over ethics and effectiveness

Tackling the trauma of racism

ADCS presidency to be shaped by trio of children’s services reports

Councils call for ‘more support’

Ban or regulation: steps to tackle agency dominance of workforce

SEND support needs in custody

Lords’ legislative review should focus on role of culture change

Unrest over Care Review board plans

Jury out on proposed mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse

Economic crisis sees young people's mental health and wellbeing suffer

Covid pressures force childcare closures

‘Commission will look for solutions to generational cycles of violence’

Review backs CBT use in schools

Study highlights beneficial impact of open access youth provision

The good and bad of new school guidance on mental wellbeing

Four key leaving care challenges

Spending Round: key measures for children and family services

Implications of ratios change

Cases of fabricated illness rise

Use EYFS review to rethink staffing

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