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CYP Now Awards: 2023 finalists revealed

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Thursday, August 3, 2023

| CYP Now

The shortlist for this year’s Children & Young People Now Awards has been published.

Fund councils to better monitor home education, ADCS urges

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

| CYP Now

Local authorities should be funded to properly support and monitor education provided to home-schooled children, according to children’s services leaders.

Housing children in asylum hotels is 'unlawful’, judge rules

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Friday, July 28, 2023

| CYP Now

The High Court has ruled that Kent County Council and the Home Secretary breached legal obligations to provide appropriate accommodation for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Inside CYP Now this month: Supported employment, speech and language special, funded childcare

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

The August 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.

Positive relationships reduce homelessness among care leavers, study finds

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Supporting children in care to build positive relationships with trusted adults can reduce their risk of homelessness by 10 per cent, a new analysis of the Lifelong Links programme has found.

Ombudsman uncovers huge SEND complaints backlog in Kent

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Monday, July 10, 2023

| CYP Now

A backlog of 170 unanswered complaints submitted to Kent County Council over delayed support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has been uncovered during a Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) investigation.

ADCS president warns of 'untenable' risks posed by placement capacity crisis

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

| CYP Now

Risks to children in care posed by a lack of placement capacity and exacerbated by a profit-based system are becoming “increasingly untenable”, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has warned.

Ofsted renews Lincolnshire’s outstanding rating

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

| CYP Now

Inspectors have renewed Lincolnshire County Council children’s services rating of "outstanding" four years after its previous full inspection.

Councils fear Afghan refugees face homelessness amid housing shortage

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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

| CYP Now

Around 8,000 Afghan asylum seekers in temporary accommodation are at risk of becoming homeless due to housing shortages and long waiting lists, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Child protection system ‘at risk’ without government action, NSPCC chief warns

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| CYP Now

A “lack of coherent national leadership” in implementing recommendations made in a series of major inquiries into support services for vulnerable children is putting the child protection system at risk, the NSPCC's chief executive has warned.

Inside CYP Now this month: Intergenerational childcare; mental health in schools; social worker training

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| CYP Now

July’s edition of Children & Young People Now is packed full of useful advice, insight and ideas on how to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.

DCS to step down after just a year in post

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Friday, June 9, 2023

| CYP Now

The director of children’s services (DCS) at Plymouth City Council will step down from the position after just a year in the role, the local authority has announced.

Early help conference to focus on reforms and best practice

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

| CYP Now

Andrea Leadsom MP, the architect of key government reforms to early life services, will be a speaker at Children & Young People Now’s 10th annual Early Help conference in September.

In the new edition of CYP Now: Social prescribing, Commissioning care special, Social worker recruitment

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| CYP Now

The June edition of Children & Young People Now is packed with must-read content on all the latest developments affecting children, young people and families services.

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.

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CYP Now Awards: 2023 finalists revealed

Fund councils to better monitor home education, ADCS urges

Housing children in asylum hotels is 'unlawful’, judge rules

Inside CYP Now this month: Supported employment, speech and language special, funded childcare

Positive relationships reduce homelessness among care leavers, study finds

Ombudsman uncovers huge SEND complaints backlog in Kent

ADCS president warns of 'untenable' risks posed by placement capacity crisis

Ofsted renews Lincolnshire’s outstanding rating

Councils fear Afghan refugees face homelessness amid housing shortage

Child protection system ‘at risk’ without government action, NSPCC chief warns

Inside CYP Now this month: Intergenerational childcare; mental health in schools; social worker training

DCS to step down after just a year in post

Early help conference to focus on reforms and best practice

In the new edition of CYP Now: Social prescribing, Commissioning care special, Social worker recruitment

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

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