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Extend corporate parenting across public services, say MPs and peers

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

| CYP Now

Corporate parenting duties on councils should be extended across a raft of other public sector organisations, including the NHS and government departments, according to a cross-party group of MPs and peers.

Budget fails to address local authority funding crisis, sector leaders warn

News

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

| CYP Now

Jeremy Hunt’s latest budget does nothing to address a funding crisis facing local authorities, sector leaders have said.

Council and children’s trust relationship at risk of ‘complete breakdown’

News

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

| CYP Now

The relationship between Bradford Council and the trust that runs children’s services in the city is blighted by tensions around spending and at risk of completely breaking down, warns a government-commissioned review.

Children's Commissioner calls for regional consistency of child in need plans

News

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

| CYP Now

The Children’s Commissioner for England has warned that more than 100,000 vulnerable young people subject to child in need plans are not receiving consistent support due to where they live in the country.

Call for inquiry into treatment of migrant children as report reveals placement 'guessing game'

News

Monday, March 4, 2024

| CYP Now

Sector leaders are calling for an inquiry into the treatment of unaccompanied migrant children in the UK after inspectors revealed that those living in a hotel were forced to guess which young people would be next to leave for foster placements.

Improving the Effectiveness of Virtual Schools

Research

Friday, March 1, 2024

| CYP Now

On average, looked-after children do less well at school than their peers with marked differences in educational outcomes between local authority areas. Virtual schools are local authority teams that support the learning of children in care. This study by the University of Exeter, University of Oxford and the National Association of Virtual School Heads (NAVSH) set out to explore the effectiveness of virtual schools and how this could be improved.

Three-quarters of children’s social worker vacancies filled by agency staff

News

Thursday, February 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Record levels of agency social workers were used to fill gaps in local authority children’s services teams last year, latest Department for Education data shows.

Ofsted to delay first supported accommodation inspections

News

Thursday, February 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Ofsted will delay inspections of supported accommodation for 16- and 17-year-olds for six months after receiving an “exceptionally high” number of registration requests, the inspectorate has announced.

Children’s services spending ‘biggest short-term pressure for councils’, say leaders

News

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

| CYP Now

Spending on children’s services, including support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), is the biggest short-term pressure facing local authorities struggling to balance their budgets, according to two-thirds of councils.

Changes to turn tide on adoption decline

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

A more inclusive system that better meets children’s, adopters’ and birth families’ needs can reverse fall in adoptions, says expert.

Education is key to tackling rise in child harmful sexual behaviour

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

You only have to take a brief glance through the Everyone’s Invited list of UK schools where pupils have experienced sexual harassment and assault to understand that child-on-child sexual abuse is rife.

Kinship carers call for investment in spring budget

News

Monday, February 26, 2024

| CYP Now

A group of Kinship carers has written to the Treasury's Chief Secretary Laura Trott calling for more financial help to be allocated to those in the role at next week's spring budget.

Council to review special guardianship payments after ombudsman highlights error

News

Thursday, February 22, 2024

| CYP Now

Devon County Council has agreed to review how it calculated allowances given to nearly 300 families who look after children as special guardians, following an investigation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO).

Compulsory reporting of child sexual abuse 'must be properly funded'

News

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

| CYP Now

The Home Secretary's plans to push through a law requiring professionals working with young people to report child sexual abuse must be "properly funded and resourced" before being implemented, sector leaders have said.

Documentary series to offer ‘unseen’ glimpse of life in children’s homes

News

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

| CYP Now

The Children’s Homes Association (CHA) has released the trailer for its series of short documentary films in a bid to “reset the narrative” around residential care for children.

Children’s services leaders call for cross-government childhood strategy

News

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

| CYP Now

A long-term strategy for childhood overseen by a government Department for Children is needed to mitigate the impact of political uncertainty and underfunding for children and family services, sector leaders have said.

Care experience celebrated as 80 councils pass protected characteristic motion

News

Friday, February 16, 2024

| CYP Now

Cambridge City Council has become the 80th council to recognise care experience as a protected characteristic as care-experienced young people across the world were celebrated on Care Day 2024.

Housing association under fire over ‘no care leavers’ advert

News

Friday, February 16, 2024

| CYP Now

One of England’s largest affordable housing and care providers in England has apologised after publishing a property advert which banned care leavers from applying.

Sexual abuse focused child protection plans fall despite increasing cases

News

Thursday, February 15, 2024

| CYP Now

The number of plans put in place by councils to protect children from sexual abuse has dropped despite the number of recorded cases increasing, analysis has found.

Ofsted rates Tameside ‘inadequate’ amid rising caseloads

News

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

| CYP Now

Tameside Council’s children’s services has been handed Ofsted’s lowest rating after an inspection found concerns around rising caseloads, an “over reliance” on temporary staff and “serious failures” in protecting children.

The silent struggle of asylum-seeking children

Opinion

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

| CYP Now

In the heart of the debate surrounding the Safety of Rwanda Bill and amidst the heated discussions on immigration policy, it’s critical that we keep our attention firmly on the vulnerable children and young people seeking refuge within our borders.

Ofsted criticises council over ‘inadequate experiences and progress of care leavers’

News

Friday, February 9, 2024

| CYP Now

Peterborough's children’s services have been rated “inadequate” by Ofsted, partly due to its lack of support for care leavers and a “lack of sufficient leadership focus”.

DfE releases second round of funding for migrant children mentoring scheme

News

Thursday, February 8, 2024

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has released a new tranche of funding to enable local authorities to deliver mentoring programmes to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.