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Agencies should be offered financial incentive to invest in early intervention, claims taskforce

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

| CYP Now

The government should explore methods for sharing profits from early intervention work to encourage agencies to finance it, the first report of a new taskforce has said.

Youth advice charity steps in to safeguard teenagers

News

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people's advice charity Youth Access has launched a project to safeguard teenagers across England at risk of neglect and abuse - a group it believes is being let down by statutory services.

Worcestershire unveils policy to charge parents of looked-after children

News

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Parents could be forced to pay as much as £900-a-month if their children are taken into care, under plans announced by Worcestershire County Council.

Poor parents struggle to access children's centres, warns charity

News

Friday, September 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Disadvantaged families are struggling to access children's centre services due to cuts from early intervention budgets, the Children's Society has warned.

All primary school pupils to be taught about abuse

News

Monday, September 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Volunteers will visit every primary school in the UK at least once every two years under plans to prevent abuse by teaching children about the issue.

Daily roundup: Behavioural problems, human trafficking, and children's centres

Other

Friday, October 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Oxford academics claim link between nurseries and poor behaviour; maximum sentence for human trafficking to be increased; and consultation begins on children's centre closures, all in the news today.

Tougher requirements for independent social work providers rejected

News

Monday, October 28, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has dismissed calls to strengthen requirements for GP-style social work practices to employ registered social workers.

Early Help: Policy context

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Monday, August 26, 2019

| CYP Now

The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) defines early intervention as identifying and providing early support to children and young people who are at risk of poor outcomes - such as mental health problems - poor academic attainment, or involvement in crime or antisocial behaviour.

Call for better co-ordinated support for disadvantaged families

News

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

| CYP Now

Support services need to be better co-ordinated in order to ensure government programmes to ‘turn around' the lives of struggling families reach their full potential, the chief executive of 4Children has said.

Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims

Other

Thursday, February 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Wilshaw reveals he called for Ofsted chair to remain; leaving foster care age for young people in Wales raised; and £500,000 fund set up to help male victims of rape, all in the news today.

Hilary Emery quits as NCB chief executive

News

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

| CYP Now

The chief executive of the National Children's Bureau is to step down after three years in charge, it has been announced.

Birmingham sees huge fall in identification of vulnerable children

News

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Birmingham Council is taking action to improve the way child protection tip-offs are acted on following a worrying drop in the numbers of children subject to protection plans.

Daily roundup: Benefit sanctions, early years, and childcare support

Other

Monday, March 3, 2014

| CYP Now

Young people struggle for basics after benefits wrongly stopped; early years bodies create policy guidance for party leaders; and poor working families miss out on childcare support, all in the news today.

Serious case reviews need reform, say academics

News

Monday, July 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Inquiries into child deaths must be reformed so frontline practice can be improved to prevent further tragedies, a major study has concluded.

Integrated care service vital to help support troubled families

Other

Monday, August 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Integrated care is an idea with legs. It is gaining currency among the major political parties, as they realise that the segregation of health and social care, for example, leads to waste, duplication and gaps through which service users easily fall.

Cameron extends Troubled Families programme to 500,000

News

Monday, August 18, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of troubled families receiving intensive government support to turn their lives around is to be increased from 120,000 to 500,000.

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

News

Thursday, August 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on children's social care has increased by more than five per cent in a single year, government figures show.

Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation

News

Friday, September 12, 2014

| CYP Now

A group of local authorities will face Ofsted inspections on the way they deal with child sexual exploitation (CSE) in a bid to ensure services are up to scratch in the wake of the Rotherham scandal, CYP Now can reveal.

Senior Tories call for cabinet-level families post

News

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

| CYP Now

More than 50 Tory MPs and peers are calling on the government to create a cabinet-level families minister post to better co-ordinate family policy across departments.

Daily roundup: Child protection, a charity merger, and the Fair4Families campaign

Other

Monday, January 28, 2013

| CYP Now

A shake-up of child protection training rumoured to be on the cards, The Private Equity Foundation and Impetus Trust announce plans to merge, and a campaign to protect families from cuts, all in the news today.

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Agencies should be offered financial incentive to invest in early intervention, claims taskforce

Youth advice charity steps in to safeguard teenagers

Worcestershire unveils policy to charge parents of looked-after children

Poor parents struggle to access children's centres, warns charity

All primary school pupils to be taught about abuse

Daily roundup: Behavioural problems, human trafficking, and children's centres

Tougher requirements for independent social work providers rejected

Early Help: Policy context

Call for better co-ordinated support for disadvantaged families

Daily roundup: Ofsted, fostering support, and sex crime victims

Hilary Emery quits as NCB chief executive

Birmingham sees huge fall in identification of vulnerable children

Daily roundup: Benefit sanctions, early years, and childcare support

Serious case reviews need reform, say academics

Integrated care service vital to help support troubled families

Cameron extends Troubled Families programme to 500,000

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation

Senior Tories call for cabinet-level families post

Daily roundup: Child protection, a charity merger, and the Fair4Families campaign

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