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Local Spotlight: Bolton Council

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Despite budget squeezes and high child poverty rates, North West council’s children’s services is achieving high standards.

Trauma-informed practice in residential child care settings

Best Practice

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Drawing on 75 years’ experience, the Mulberry Bush Organisation has developed a range of training programmes for staff working with children who have, or are, experiencing early life trauma.

Consultation launches on statutory guidance for council use of agency social workers

News

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has launched a four-week consultation on new statutory guidance for the use of agency social workers by local authority children’s services.

Young care-experienced parents build confidence in developing support networks

Best Practice

Thursday, February 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Care-experienced parents are using their voice to get support and help with professional development in Hertfordshire.

Liverpool’s ‘inadequate’ children’s services improving, says Ofsted

News

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

| CYP Now

Ofsted has welcomed measures being taken by Liverpool City Council to improve its children’s services, which were rated as “inadequate” in May last year.

Call for greater involvement of children’s social care in local health plans

News

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

| CYP Now

A lack of joined up working with children’s social care and education settings is contributing to inconsistencies in addressing the needs of babies, children and young people in local health plans, according to research.

Special Report: Trauma-Informed Care

Features

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

| CYP Now

Trauma-informed care is a way of working with vulnerable children and families that seeks to recognise and respond to traumatic experiences and which is now being widely adopted across a range of settings

Two more councils vote to recognise care experience as a protected characteristic

News

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Two more councils have passed a motion to recognise care experience as a protected characteristic, including the first Welsh council to do so.

New era for supporting children

Analysis

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Supported accommodation providers body aims to help spread good practice as inspections loom.

Six reasons Care Review reforms need strengthening to succeed

Analysis

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Evidence from key sector organisations to education committee inquiry on the government’s social care strategy calls for profit-making to be removed from the care sector and more rights for care leavers.

Sector recruitment challenges key barrier to safeguarding children, report warns

News

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Recruitment and retention challenges across services working with families is a key barrier to safeguarding vulnerable children, a major report warns.

Annual spending by councils on private children’s home placements soars

News

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on private residential care placements for children has increased by almost a quarter over the last year, latest government figures show.

Research reveals trends in child social care demand and outcomes

Analysis

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

An analysis of more than three million social care assessments in England has uncovered trends in demand and links to outcomes for vulnerable children which, researchers say, could help councils to better understand local population challenges and adapt service provision accordingly.

Judge highlights ‘gargantuan’ challenges in finding suitable welfare placements

News

Monday, January 29, 2024

| CYP Now

A High Court judge has criticised “insurmountable challenges” in securing care placements for teenagers with complex mental health needs after a 14-year-old girl, who was deprived of her liberty, was forced to live in a hospital side room for at least six weeks before being placed in an unregistered setting.

Councils still face ‘difficult decisions’ despite children’s services funding boost

News

Thursday, January 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority and children's services leaders have welcomed a £600m government funding boost to relieve pressure for support services but say it "does not negate the need for a sufficient long term funding settlement for children".

Child refugees wrongly assessed as adults facing abuse and exploitation, charities warn

News

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

| CYP Now

Child refugees are being wrongly assessed as adults and are facing abuse, harassment, and exploitation after being placed in adult hotels and detention facilities, a group of charities is warning.

NCB launches evaluation of Care Review reforms

News

Thursday, January 18, 2024

| CYP Now

The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) has partnered with economists to deliver a five-year evaluation of reforms to children’s social care.

Worcestershire Council to resume in-house control of children’s services

News

Thursday, January 18, 2024

| CYP Now

Worcestershire County Council is to close a company it was ordered by the government to set up to run children’s services in the area.

Praise for council’s care leaver support package

News

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Durham County Council’s children’s services department has been praised over its support for young people leaving care.

Sexual exploitation review finds child protection failings at Rochdale Council

News

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Rochdale Council and police failed to protect children at risk of sexual exploitation in the Greater Manchester town more than a decade ago, an independent review has found.

Three in four councils appeal for more support to reunite families, survey finds

News

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Councils are calling on the government for support to help them reunite children with their families and reduce local authorities’ children in care costs, according to a survey.

Children's homes 'reluctant' to accept children with complex needs, Ofsted reports

News

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

| CYP Now

More than nine in 10 local authorities struggle to find homes for children with complex needs, warns a report by Ofsted, highlighting a reluctance by homes to accept such referrals as a key factor behind the issue.

Ofsted criticises council over 'unsuitable' placements for care leavers

News

Monday, January 15, 2024

| CYP Now

Staffordshire County Council’s children’s services have been downgraded by Ofsted due in part to concerns over its care leaver offer, including the placement of young people in "unsuitable short-term accommodation".

Major expansion of family court reporting pilot announced

News

Friday, January 12, 2024

| CYP Now

Media reporting of family proceedings is to be extended to a further 16 courts in England as part of an expansion of a pilot scheme aiming to increase transparency of the family justice system.

Child sexual offences remain ‘close to record levels’, NSPCC figures show

News

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The number of child sexual offences being recorded by police has fallen slightly over the last year, but remains “close to record levels”, according to analysis by the NSPCC.

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