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Therapeutic Care: Policy context

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| CYP Now

Therapeutic care has its roots in the post-war psychoanalytic movement that sought to understand the impact trauma has on children and young people and what support needs to be put in place to give them the best chance of recovering.

Can the physical environment of residential children's homes make them feel more therapeutic? Recommendations from a rapid evidence assessment

Research

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| CYP Now

Exploring the factors within the physical environment that may impact the quality of therapeutic care experienced by young people.

Creative Life Story Work strengthens care relationships

Research

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| CYP Now

Evaluation of a creative, relational approach to life story work has shown it to be higher quality and more collaborative than traditional life story work, and that it helps to develop and strengthen relationships between care-experienced children and young people and their carers.

Therapeutic Care Special Report

Features

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| CYP Now

With a post-pandemic surge in demand for mental health and emotional wellbeing support, service providers are working to meet the needs of children and young people requiring therapeutic care.

Projects to support vulnerable children at Christmas

Features

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

| CYP Now

As the cost of living continues to rise, food banks and charities supporting vulnerable children and families have warned they are facing “the most challenging winter ever”.

North West local authorities submit one fifth of deprivation of liberty applications, figures show

News

Friday, December 16, 2022

| CYP Now

More than one fifth of deprivation of liberty applications involving children were made by were made by local authorities in the North West of England between July and November this year, figures show.

Safeguarding pilot offers free training around online grooming

News

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

| CYP Now

Safeguarding professionals are invited to join a pilot training programme designed to increase understanding of online grooming.

Council criticised over failure to provide support for family of boy with autism

News

Monday, December 12, 2022

| CYP Now

The local government and social care ombudsman (LGO) has criticised a council over its failure to provide respite care for the family of a boy with complex special educational needs (SEN).

‘Inadequate implementation’ of the Children and Families Act 2014 failing children, peers find

News

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

| CYP Now

Peers have criticised the implementation of the Children and Families Act 2014, saying it is blighted by “insufficient data and inadequate implementation and monitoring”.

Care system fails to meet needs of LGBTQ+ young people, research warns

News

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

| CYP Now

LGBTQ+ young people report significant health, mental health and well-being inequalities while living in foster and residential care, compared with their non-LGBTQ+ peers, a study finds.

Special report: Social, emotional and mental health needs

Features

Friday, December 2, 2022

| CYP Now

A fresh focus on social, emotional and mental health needs recognises behavioural links to mental health, with early intervention aiming to improve children’s ability to learn and enhance life chances.

CYP Now Awards winners revealed on night of celebration

News

Friday, November 25, 2022

| CYP Now

The winners of the 2022 Children and Young People Now Awards were unveiled at a glittering ceremony in London.

Autumn statement: Cross-party MPs support free school meal extension

News

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

| CYP Now

Two thirds of MPs are backing calls for government to extend free school meal (FSM) eligibility to include all pupils from families receiving universal credit in the autumn statement, a survey has revealed.

Longfield commission sets out ‘Sure Start for teenagers’ plans

News

Friday, November 4, 2022

| CYP Now

The creation of an England-wide network of 1,000 community hubs dubbed ‘Sure Start for teenagers’ that would provide support for those vulnerable to exploitation from criminal gangs is a key recommendation of a year-long review of services for young people led by former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield.

Poor mental health support ‘threatens to overwhelm’ children’s social care

News

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| CYP Now

Social workers are struggling to access support for a growing number of children with mental health problems, a report is warning.

Review finds ‘serious abuse and neglect’ at three residential children’s homes

News

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

| CYP Now

An independent safeguarding review has revealed “serious abuse and neglect” suffered by children and young adults with disabilities and complex needs while living at three children’s homes in Doncaster.

Child sexual abuse inquiry recommends creation of new child protection authority

News

Thursday, October 20, 2022

| CYP Now

A seven-year inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales recommends the creation of a new child protection authority (CPA) as well as calling for the prosecution of people who work with children and fail to report allegations of abuse.

Research on mental health support for children in care launches

News

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

| CYP Now

The effectiveness of mental health and wellbeing provision for children who have involvement with social workers will be studied in a new research project.

LGBT young people twice as likely to experience hate speech online, study shows

News

Monday, October 17, 2022

| CYP Now

Young people who identify as LGBTQI+ are almost twice as likely to experience hate speech online compared with their heterosexual peers, a report looking at young people’s relationship with digital technology has revealed.