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Changes to turn tide on adoption decline

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.

Briefing: Innovation Incubator

Analysis

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Coram initiative will pool knowledge of councils, charities and businesses to develop innovative ideas.

Councils focus on tackling multiple problems

Analysis

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

| CYP Now

How two councils will invest in innovative approaches to support better outcomes for young adults living with a range of linked disadvantages.

Lockdown widens digital divide

Analysis

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Campaigners call for improvements in national scheme to provide care leavers with digital equipment.

Links between care and offending

Analysis

Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

Study analyses impact of care on young people’s offending and calls for an overhaul of the support system.

Older children enter safeguarding spotlight

Analysis

Monday, January 23, 2012

| CYP Now

Teenagers are rarely top of the agenda for child protection services. Victims in the majority of high-profile child protection cases are infants or young children, while older young people tend to be perceived by many professionals as more resilient and less vulnerable to harm.

ADCS president vows action on poverty

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2019

| CYP Now

Rachel Dickinson, 2019/20 ADCS president, says she will stress the plight of children living in poverty.

Social workers as researchers: seven key principles to success

Analysis

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Kantar Public, a research and evaluation agency, explores the benefits, challenges and opportunities of using social workers as embedded research practitioners to help monitor and evaluate children's social care services

How Ofsted's SIF has changed the children's services landscape

Analysis

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

| CYP Now

Under Ofsted's single inspection framework, the number of children's services rated "inadequate" has doubled, prompting criticism it raised the bar too high. Leaders assess its legacy and what it will mean for the future.

Social worker accreditation plans spark two-tier workforce concerns

Analysis

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

| CYP Now

The government has set out its plans for how a proposed national assessment and accreditation system for children's social workers intended to boost the quality of practice in the profession will be implemented.

Adoption board closes to make way for Care Review's reforms

Analysis

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| CYP Now

Closure of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board after a decade is ‘in light of’ review's focus on keeping families together, say experts who call for a fairer, more equitable and more inclusive care system.

Councils must review behaviour policies

Analysis

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Protocol for dealing with behavioural issues in social care settings fails to cut criminalisation of children in care, academics warn.

Asylum plans concern councils

Analysis

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Proposals risk undermining local authority responsibilities to asylum-seeking children, leaders warn.

Spotlight on sibling sexual abuse

Analysis

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Guide helps children’s practitioners support families to address trauma of sibling sexual abuse.

Call for national fostering drive

Analysis

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Foster carer shortage prompts call for a recruitment campaign with adopters, but prospect splits experts.

Growing gap in secure care options for children in crisis

Analysis

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Shortage of the right places in secure children’s homes has seen a rise in "inherent jurisdiction" applications.

Care Review backs regional approach

Analysis

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Regional care co-operatives can help councils ‘take back control’ of the care placement market, say experts.

Practitioners reflect on lockdown problems

Analysis

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

NSPCC has analysed staff diaries to identify key challenges of lockdown for services and vulnerable families so future lessons can be learned

Gaps in knowledge on ACEs

Analysis

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

Review shows negative impact of adverse childhood experiences and says understanding must improve.

Immigration status and Brexit

Analysis

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

Expert says councils must take measures to ensure children in care have leave to remain from 2021.

Charity study gives voice to the unheard victims of sexual abuse

Analysis

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

| CYP Now

Child protection practitioners and agencies can struggle to identify when young children have been sexually abused. Barnardo’s research identifies gaps in practice and changes services can make to improve processes.

Decision of a lifetime

Analysis

Monday, December 12, 2011

| CYP Now

Politicians have not pulled their punches in highlighting what they regard as the failings of the adoption system of late.

Visualising a child's care journey

Analysis

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

| CYP Now

Data visualisation tool could boost efficiency and stop vulnerable children from slipping through the net.

Timpson is confident his 'unique experience' can help children

Analysis

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

| CYP Now

In an interview with CYP Now, former children's minister Edward Timpson outlines his approach to new roles at Cafcass, the children's commissioner for England, school exclusions review and safeguarding practice panel.

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Changes to turn tide on adoption decline

Education is key to tackling rise in child harmful sexual behaviour

Briefing: Innovation Incubator

Councils focus on tackling multiple problems

Lockdown widens digital divide

Links between care and offending

Older children enter safeguarding spotlight

ADCS president vows action on poverty

Social workers as researchers: seven key principles to success

How Ofsted's SIF has changed the children's services landscape

Social worker accreditation plans spark two-tier workforce concerns

Adoption board closes to make way for Care Review's reforms

Councils must review behaviour policies

Asylum plans concern councils

Spotlight on sibling sexual abuse

Call for national fostering drive

Growing gap in secure care options for children in crisis

Care Review backs regional approach

Practitioners reflect on lockdown problems

Gaps in knowledge on ACEs

Immigration status and Brexit

Charity study gives voice to the unheard victims of sexual abuse

Decision of a lifetime

Visualising a child's care journey

Timpson is confident his 'unique experience' can help children

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