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Conservative Conference 2011: Intervention plans must be sensitive to families' needs, charity chief warns

Sunday, October 2, 2011

| CYP Now

Plans to turn around the lives of England's 120,000 most troubled families will falter unless the government conducts a detailed analysis of exactly which families these are, the chief executive of Family Action has warned.

YJB chair calls for children's criminal records to be erased at 18

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

| CYP Now

Youth Justice Board chair Lord McNally has added his voice to calls for children's criminal records to be erased at 18.

CYP Now 2012 Awards open for entry

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

| CYP Now

The Children & Young People Now Awards, the gold standard in services for children, young people and families, are this week open for entries.

Social workers' leader criticises Troubled Families programme

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

| CYP Now

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has hit out at the government's Troubled Families programme for failing to deliver "sustained change" for participants.

Youth Contract to help more young people

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

| CYP Now

An additional 15,000 16- and 17-year-olds are to receive help to find work or training through the Youth Contract, following a government review of the programme's "narrow" criteria.

Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has slashed £150m from the Early Intervention Grant to plough into attempts to increase the number of adoptions in England, children's minister Edward Timpson has confirmed.

Child sexual abuse offences surpass 100,000 for the first time

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

| CYP Now

Police forces in England and Wales recorded the most child sexual offences ever in 2021/22, with numbers surpassing 100,000 for the first time.

Professionals who fail to act on CSE face five-year jail term

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's social workers, teachers and local councillors will face up to five years in jail for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Inspectors praise specialist youth custody unit

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

| CYP Now

A specialist unit for vulnerable young offenders has been praised by prison inspectors, who have awarded it their highest grade across all areas of its work.

YOT leaders unconvinced by youth justice transition protocol

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Friday, December 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth Offending Team (YOT) managers remain concerned about handing over cases to adult probation services despite the release of a joint protocol on the issue.

Home Office response to child sexual abuse inquiry ‘will not protect children’, review chair warns

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Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| CYP Now

The government’s response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) “will not provide the protection from sexual abuse that our children deserve”, said the investigation’s chair.

Inside CYP Now this month: Residential youth work, Care Review pilot, youth justice trends

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Thursday, August 31, 2023

| CYP Now

The September edition of Children & Young People Now has all the latest news, views and analysis on the key issues affecting services for children, young people and families.

Children in residential care 'excessively criminalised'

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

| CYP Now

Children in residential care are being criminalised at excessively high rates compared with other boys and girls, a campaign group has claimed.

Council in High Court after looked-after child spent night in police cell

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Thursday, February 27, 2020

| CYP Now

Legal action has been launched against a London council in the High Court over claims a child was kept in police custody for two nights due to a lack of suitable accommodation.

Emergency legislation relaxes councils' statutory duties to vulnerable children

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Thursday, April 23, 2020

| CYP Now

The government has introduced emergency legislation to relax local authorities' statutory duties to vulnerable children in England until at least September.

General election 2024: Key party manifesto pledges for the children and young people’s sector

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Friday, June 14, 2024

| CYP Now

The three main parties have published policy pledges in a bid to win the general election.

Government falls short on children's rights, claims charity

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

| CYP Now

The government has failed to act on the majority of the UN's recommendations to improve children's rights in England, according to the latest Children Rights Alliance for England (Crae) report.

Ofsted reports increase in 'excellent' children's services

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Monday, November 7, 2011

| CYP Now

More local authorities are providing excellent services for children this year, the latest annual round-up of Ofsted assessments has found.

CYP Now Awards extends deadline to 11 July

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

| CYP Now

The deadline to enter the 2013 Children & Young People Now Awards has been extended by one week, to Thursday 11 July. Entries must be received before 12 noon that day.

NCAS Conference: Timpson unveils children's services innovation programme

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Monday, October 21, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has launched a sector-wide initiative to harvest and test "adventurous" ideas that professionals have to improve services for vulnerable children.

Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Plans to redirect £150m of early intervention funding into adoption reform risk reducing frontline services for vulnerable children, the chair of the Local Government Association's (LGA) children and young people board has warned.

Daily roundup: Self-harm; Manchester serious case review; and redundancies at the DfE

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Friday, March 1, 2013

| CYP Now

Charities claim the number of children self-harming is on the rise, a serious case review into the death of a four-year-old let down by seven agencies, and a warning over unfair dismissal claims at the DfE, all in the news today.

Study reveals brain injury link with youth offending

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Friday, October 19, 2012

| CYP Now

Hundreds of children are being drawn into youth custody because of failures to identify or provide support for brain injuries and neurological conditions, a report by the Children's Commissioner for England has found.

Major inquiry to create 'new social policy blueprint'

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

| CYP Now

The Centre for Social Justice has launched a major inquiry into the root causes of poverty and crime, intended to influence politicians' thinking ahead of the next general election.

Youth charity chief reveals expansion plans

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Friday, January 31, 2014

| CYP Now

A charity that trains young people to better deal with conflict situations has unveiled ambitious plans to double in size within two years.

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Conservative Conference 2011: Intervention plans must be sensitive to families' needs, charity chief warns

YJB chair calls for children's criminal records to be erased at 18

CYP Now 2012 Awards open for entry

Social workers' leader criticises Troubled Families programme

Youth Contract to help more young people

Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform

Child sexual abuse offences surpass 100,000 for the first time

Professionals who fail to act on CSE face five-year jail term

Inspectors praise specialist youth custody unit

YOT leaders unconvinced by youth justice transition protocol

Home Office response to child sexual abuse inquiry ‘will not protect children’, review chair warns

Inside CYP Now this month: Residential youth work, Care Review pilot, youth justice trends

Children in residential care 'excessively criminalised'

Council in High Court after looked-after child spent night in police cell

Emergency legislation relaxes councils' statutory duties to vulnerable children

General election 2024: Key party manifesto pledges for the children and young people’s sector

Government falls short on children's rights, claims charity

Ofsted reports increase in 'excellent' children's services

CYP Now Awards extends deadline to 11 July

NCAS Conference: Timpson unveils children's services innovation programme

Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'

Daily roundup: Self-harm; Manchester serious case review; and redundancies at the DfE

Study reveals brain injury link with youth offending

Major inquiry to create 'new social policy blueprint'

Youth charity chief reveals expansion plans

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