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The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund

    Funding
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund offers grants to organisations supporting people and communities in England who are experiencing severe pressure due to the increased cost of living, particularly those from low-income households. It is delivered by the National Lottery Community Fund and funded by the UK government, and offers grants up to £75,000.

Family Fund Mobility Support

    Funding
  • Wednesday, August 30, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The Family Fund's Mobility Support programme provides car-leasing packages to low-income families raising a young disabled or seriously ill child with significant mobility needs, to help with travelling to appointments and assist with day-to-day activities.

Challenge Fund 2

    Funding
  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The Challenge Fund 2, funded by the Department for Work and Pensions, is part of the second phase of the government's Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) programme.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

    Other
  • Tuesday, March 31, 2020
    • | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

Children’s services inspection

    Features
  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted says the children’s services inspection regime is working well, but an independent assessment found areas for improvement. The ADCS’s Steve Crocker tells Jo Stephenson how ILACS can be refined.

Special Report: Children's Mental Health

    Other
  • Tuesday, July 5, 2016
    • | CYP Now
The Future in Mind national strategy and £1.4bn in funding is seeing a reorganisation of children's mental health services that is aiming to transform the outcomes of children and young people.

Social work set free to innovate

    Other
  • Tuesday, June 21, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire are among the authorities chosen to take part in the Partners in Practice programme to transform children's social care. Eileen Fursland finds out about their plans.

Research Report: National Survey of Injury Prevention Activities of Children's Centres

    Other
  • Tuesday, April 26, 2016
    • | CYP Now
There is a lot of research into the role children's centres play in improving outcomes for disadvantaged families. However, researchers from the University of Nottingham were keen to investigate centres' role in preventing injuries to under-fives, an area not previously analysed. Previous research has found injuries disproportionately affect children from low-income families.

Special Report: Attachment and Neglect

    Other
  • Tuesday, April 12, 2016
    • | CYP Now
The importance of strong attachments from early childhood - and of tackling the damage caused by neglect where these attachments are lacking - is seeing greater recognition in both policy and practice.

Learnings on school readiness

    Other
  • Tuesday, April 12, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Pilot scheme improved young children's transition to formal education through collaboration and involving families.

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the scale of child neglect, its long-term effect on children's wellbeing and how interventions can prevent and repair the damage caused to children's ability to form strong attachments with parents and carers.

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