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Sexual exploitation review finds child protection failings at Rochdale Council

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Recruit ‘parent champions’ to design child poverty busting measures, report urges

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

| CYP Now

Parents should be more involved in the design and delivery of services aimed at tackling ‘systemic’ child poverty in communities across the UK, a report is urging.

Welsh councils launch foster carer recruitment campaign

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Monday, January 8, 2024

| CYP Now

A network of Welsh local authority fostering teams have launched a campaign to recruit more foster carers as part of the national drive to remove commercial providers from the social care sector.

Government confirms existence of DoL orders expert group

News

Friday, January 5, 2024

| CYP Now

The government has confirmed it has established an expert group to tackle the recent sharp rise in the use of deprivation of liberty (DoL) orders for highly vulnerable children.

The value of safety planning

Features

Thursday, January 4, 2024

| CYP Now

Dr Carlene Firmin has highlighted the complex challenges practitioners face when supporting children and young people affected by extra-familial harm through her development of contextual safeguarding since 2016.

Promoting private fostering

Features

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

Clare Seth, CoramBAAF kinship care consultant, on how to raise awareness of private fostering.

Statutory guidance gives us ‘permission’ to practice

Opinion

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

A line by poet Oliver Wendell Holmes – “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions” – feels apt when considering the guidance that governs local authority functions and responsibilities to vulnerable children and families.

Practice panel: Tackling harmful sexual behaviour among children

Analysis

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

CYP Now convened a webinar for experts to discuss the difficult topic of harmful sexual behaviour among children with a view to helping improve practitioners’ skills during assessment and delivering support.

Care-experienced children in Reading share their views to break down barriers

Best Practice

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

Brighter Futures for Children’s Care2Listen group has won the participation prize at the A National Voice Awards after encouraging looked-after children to share their views.

Inspections Clinic - social care provision

Features

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

Ofsted’s latest annual report highlights improving standards across children’s social care but raises concerns about increasing numbers of children in unregistered provision, reports Jo Stephenson.

Children in supported accommodation not protected against corporal punishment, DfE admits

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

| CYP Now

Children’s rights campaigners are raising concerns over an admission by the children’s minister that vulnerable teenagers living in supported accommodation are not explicitly protected against a ban on corporal punishment.

Access to therapy increases for adopted adults

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

| CYP Now

Adult adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents will no longer face barriers to accessing therapy due to a change in rules around registration.

Councils urged to share care leaver offer on comparison site

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

| CYP Now

Local authorities are being urged to sign up to a website to promote their care leaver offers.

Government promises better advocacy and commissioning of services for disabled children

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

| CYP Now

Improved advocacy support and commissioning of residential care for disabled children are among pledges made by the government in response to a review of the Hesley homes abuse scandal.

Children’s Home Association announces changes to leadership

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

| CYP Now

The Children’s Home Association (CHA) has announced changes to its leadership team, marking a shift in priorities for the membership organisation.

MacAlister: Government care review plans ‘welcome’ but ‘too timid’

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

| CYP Now

Care Review chair Josh MacAlister says details released by the government this month on overhauling children’s social care are “welcome progress” but have “further to go”.

Large private children’s homes provider sold to private equity firms

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Monday, December 18, 2023

| CYP Now

The fourth largest provider of private children’s home places in England and Wales has been sold to two private equity firms.

National kinship strategy ‘falls disappointingly short’, sector leaders say

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Friday, December 15, 2023

| CYP Now

The government’s first kinship care strategy falls short of “wholesale reform” for the sector and is “lacking in the scale, ambition and investment needed”, sector leaders have said.

Government publishes first kinship care strategy

News

Friday, December 15, 2023

| CYP Now

Increased financial allowances for some kinship carers and an expansion of virtual school heads' roles are among elements included in the government’s first kinship care strategy.