The service’s increased digital presence caught the eye of a film expert in the US who volunteered to transform the content

Cardiff’s digital skills help boost engagement

Youth Work
The bus enables the youth work team to take their resources into public spaces

Detached youth work engages young people in their own spaces

Youth Work
Children with extra needs and disabilities are "smashing through the stereotypes"

Blackpool helps children with additional needs

Youth Work
New standards for children’s homes are being devised. Picture: NDABCREATIVITY/Adobe Stock

Inspections Clinic: Homes for Disabled Children

Health
The researchers recommend fathers carve out time for interactive activities with their children each week. Picture: Mediteraneo/Adobe Stock

Parental Involvement and its Effects on Children’s Education

Education
Illustration: The img/Adobe Stock

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Management
Cambridge City Council is one of 55 local authorities that voted to make care experience a protected characteristic. Picture: Alexey Fedorenko/Adobe Stock

Legal Update: Care – A protected characteristic?

Social Care
The Skill Mill’s six-month work placements allows ex-offenders to develop employability skills in a supported environment

Young people gain skills to leave crime behind

Youth Justice
Lambeth Council has become one of the first local authorities in England to back care status as a protected characteristic. Picture: chrisdorney/Adobe Stock

Local Spotlight: Lambeth Council

Children's Services
The UK can learn from Sweden on how all women access affordable maternity care. Picture: Alik Mulikov/Adobe Stock

Maternity care for migrants, Sweden

Health

In the November edition of CYP Now: Care proceedings, youth work special, family hubs

Children's Services
The scheme is being rolled out further in the North East after a successful pilot. Picture: Newcastle City Council.

Young care leavers in the North East to benefit from free travel

Social Care