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Kinship foster care ‘not explored as an option’ for most children, research warns

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Kinship foster care – where a child is fostered by a family friend or relative – is “too infrequently explored” across England and Wales as an option for children in care, new government data suggests.

Thinking differently to support children and young people’s mental health

Blogs

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Solutions that address the entire system are rare. Policies typically address immediate priorities and urgent needs, leaving the long-term, systemic issues unresolved.

Expansion of PAVA ignites debate on youth custody force and restraint

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

The UK government’s consideration of expanding the use of PAVA spray – a chemical irritant legally used in adult prisons – into child establishments has ignited a contentious debate.

In May’s CYP Now: Childminder SOS, digital solutions in children’s services, BYC closure

News

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

All the latest news, research findings and in-depth features on services for children, young people and families are packed into the May edition of Children & Young People Now.

Longfield think-tank calls for expansion of school mental health support teams

News

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Former children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield has called for an expansion of mental health support offered in schools as data shows 1.4mn children in England now have a probable mental health condition.

Speaking out about care experience

Blogs

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

The time has come, we are out there.

British Youth Council: five factors for demise of youth voice stalwart

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

The British Youth Council had been at the forefront of the youth movement for 75 years, but in recent times was unable to weather a perfect storm of internal and external pressures that led to it becoming unsustainable.

School mental health plans need an update

Opinion

Sunday, April 28, 2024

| CYP Now

The idea for mental health support teams (MHSTs) to bridge the gap between school counselling services and specialist therapeutic support in the community came out of the children’s mental health green paper published in 2017 by Theresa May’s government. Plans to introduce MHSTs in a third of schools and colleges by 2023 and to half by 2025 were confirmed the following summer.

Schools must focus on building local relationships

Opinion

Sunday, April 28, 2024

| CYP Now

I’ve been talking with education leaders about inclusion and one of the challenges of the current school context that they identified was that attitudes and relationships between parents, children and schools have changed since the pandemic.