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Game over: the risks of children gambling

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Harmful gambling among children and young people is an increasing concern. Charlotte Goddard explores the problem and what support is available to families and children’s services professionals.

Therapeutic Communities: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The term “therapeutic” – at least in the way commissioning specifications set out – focuses on the direct work of a therapist in weekly sessions with a child. While this important technical component has its place, it is only one limited element. In order for residential care, fostering, education or supported housing to be “therapeutic” something more is needed.

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.

How Covid-19 remade children’s services

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  • Tuesday, January 26, 2021
  • | CYP Now
A year on from the emergence of the coronavirus and onset of the pandemic, experts assess the long-term impact of the disruption it has caused to children’s services and young people’s lives.

Suicide bereavement support, Denmark

Anna Wardley visited Denmark to speak to leading experts and organisations doing innovative work to improve mental health outcomes for suicide-bereaved children that could be replicated in the UK.

Impact of 'target-driven' school system debated

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  • Sunday, November 6, 2011
  • | CYP Now
An increasing number of children and parents are concerned about the stress of exams, sparking a debate on whether children's wellbeing is being damaged by a target-driven school culture.