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New care regulations could increase homelessness for teenagers

Monday, October 23, 2023

| CYP Now

Stories of children falling through the regulatory gaps and facing terrible conditions in unregulated, profit-first accommodation that is effectively paid for by the taxpayer have been a national scandal for some time.

As an adult adoptee, I want to see children being put at the heart of adoption

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

| CYP Now

My name is Debbie Iromlou and I'm a co-founder of the Adult Adoptee Movement. We are a group of people who were adopted as babies during the forced adoption era.

Professionals must act to support young people with eating disorders

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Friday, October 13, 2023

| CYP Now

With the increasing prevalence of eating disorder awareness in recent times, it can be difficult to navigate the abundance of ‘helpful’ information on the topic and decipher what is relevant and applicable to identifying and supporting individuals with eating disorders as professionals working with children and young people.

Anxiety is real, but labelling too many children can be damaging

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

| CYP Now

Childline has reported delivering 105,000 counselling sessions in 2022-23 where the child’s main concern was mental and emotional health and wellbeing. 31,000 of these counselling sessions on mental health were specifically about stress and anxiety.

Allowing children to leave kinship care and enter the care system won’t just cost us money, it will be morally bankrupt

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Monday, October 2, 2023

| CYP Now

Today, on the first day of Kinship Care Week, Kinship has published new research indicating that more than 19,000 vulnerable children across England and Wales, currently being raised by relatives or family friends, are at immediate risk of entering the care system, as kinship carers struggle to cope without adequate financial support.

We need to act now to support Kinship Carers

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Monday, October 2, 2023

| CYP Now

In 2019, I met my niece in state care following the removal from her birth parent and being placed into formal care arrangement with unrelated foster carers.

Supporting children to stay safe online

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Online content and social media have never been riskier for children - yet getting children to put down their devices is one of modern parenting’s greatest challenges.