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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.

Lucy Hughes

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 30, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Speech and language therapist, Camden Targeted Speech and Language Therapy Services.

CYP Now Awards 2013: Awards Shortlist

    Features
  • Monday, September 2, 2013
    • | CYP Now
The Children & Young People Now Awards, now in their eighth year,recognise and reward excellent practice in supporting children, young people and families to lead happy, healthy and successful lives. The awards provide a vital source of learning and excellent practice for the sector at large.

Strong parent attachments underpin drive to prevent baby deaths

Twenty babies on average die each year because of abuse and neglect. Meanwhile, 144,000 UK children under one have a parent with a mental health problem, 109,000 live with a parent who has an alcohol problem or uses class A drugs and 39,000 have a parent who has experienced domestic violence in the past year.

He said he loved me

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 7, 2014
    • | CYP Now
A hard-hitting new play is touring schools and youth clubs to raise awareness of the grooming and sexual exploitation of young people. Eileen Fursland explores its impact in tackling this complex problem.

Inspections Clinic: Multi-agency safeguarding

    Features
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
After a pandemic-induced hiatus, joint targeted area inspections are back. However, as Jo Stephenson reports, there are some key changes children’s services teams and practitioners need to understand.

Legal Update: Kinship care and the Care Review

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, explains how proposals in the Care Review to encourage more children to be placed in kinship care arrangements could have unintended consequences.

Why bigger is often better in children’s residential care

    Features
  • Wednesday, February 24, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Children coming into residential care are often unable to sustain the intensity of living in a small family unit. Larger homes can offer more opportunities to address the emotional, behavioural, social and developmental needs of every child, supporting their psychological wellbeing until they are able to move successfully into a family environment.

Social workers on the small screen

    Features
  • Thursday, December 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Children’s social workers are often portrayed in a negative light when they feature in TV dramas. Charlotte Goddard investigates how the profession is trying to change how it appears on screen.

Commissioning: Parent-infant relationship services

Dr Karen Bateson, clinical psychologist and Wook Hamilton, head of development at the Parent-Infant Foundation, outline how a new toolkit can help commissioners develop provision that enhances relationships between parents and young children.

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