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The Social Care Academy

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  • Tuesday, January 31, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Vacancy rates and staff turnover have plummeted in Essex since the opening of its children's social work training academy. Charlotte Goddard asks those behind the initiative how it has been achieved.

The policy context on preventing care proceedings

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 17, 2017
    • | CYP Now
In the face of tightening council budgets and rising demand for children's social care services, policymakers and local leaders have for the past few years been devising ways to reduce children's services' use of care proceedings.

Special Report: Preventing care proceedings

    Features
  • Monday, January 16, 2017
    • | CYP Now
As the care system continues to come under increased pressure, children's services are focusing on ways to better support vulnerable children and families, and avoid the need for care proceedings to be initiated.

Legal Update: Children and Social Work Bill

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 22, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Marianne Lagrue, project officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the government's recent defeat in the House of Lords over controversial exemption clauses in the Children and Social Work Bill.

Around the corner

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Young people in residential care will soon have the right to 'stay close' to their placement when they leave, helping smooth the transition to adulthood. Joe Lepper investigates how this is likely to work.

Cared-for learning

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Emily Rogers looks at some innovative methods to raise the educational attainment of children in care, and reverse the damaging impact of adverse early life experiences on their ability to learn.

In a good place

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
As the number of children in care reaches record levels, Joe Lepper examines the challenge for commissioners to provide children with stable, happy homes that cater to their needs.

Ripe for reform

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
With government pledging to undertake a 'national stocktake' of foster care and MPs conducting their own inquiry, Joe Lepper asks what measures would improve quality of care and outcomes for children.

Rebuilding life after child sexual abuse

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
The NSPCC's Letting the Future In programme works with children who have been sexually abused. Eileen Fursland reports on how it uses play and creative therapy to help rebuild young lives.

Feeling at home

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
The Narey review argues that the prevailing view of children's residential care as an 'anachronism' significantly underestimates its contribution. Joe Lepper asks how these views can be overturned.

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