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Regional approach to staff recruitment

Monday, April 29, 2019

| CYP Now

Latest Department for Education workforce data shows that while the number of children's social workers rose three per cent last year, staff turnover, vacant posts and use of agency practitioners remained stubbornly high.

Uncertainty remains on outsourcing children's services

Analysis

Monday, July 7, 2014

| CYP Now

The decision to allow private firms to run child protection services through non-profit subsidiaries alarms campaigners.

Social work employment trends

Analysis

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

| CYP Now

ADCS's Rachael Wardell responds to five key developments in the children's social work workforce.

Three trailblazer councils to pilot MacAlister's ‘families first’ plan

Analysis

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Council leaders share early proposals on delivery of the government's Families First for Children scheme designed to ‘test new ways to reform every part of children's social care’ in response to the Care Review.

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.

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.