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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.

General election 2019: Key policy guide

    Analysis
  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Derren Hayes analyses what the main parliamentary parties are pledging on the key policy battlegrounds for the children, young people and families sector at the coming general election.

Special Report: Early Help

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Council early help services are changing. With budgets falling and demand for intensive services rising, early help is evolving into a more multi-agency intervention targeted at the most disadvantaged families.

Early Help: Policy context

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Amid rising demand for child protection services over the past decade, early help support for children and families with emerging or less severe problems has been largely left on the political, policy and funding sidelines.

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