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Government vows to launch mental health check pilots later this year

Friday, June 1, 2018

| CYP Now

Delayed trials of mental health assessments for children entering the care system will launch later this year, the government has pledged.

Social work training programme opens to new candidates

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Half of England's local authorities have signed up for a new round of a government social worker training programme.

Fostering and adoption take the lead in Scottish care

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

| CYP Now

More looked-after children in Scotland are being cared for by foster carers and prospective adopters than at home for the first time, the Scottish government has revealed.

Councils ordered to reduce adoption delays

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Friday, November 30, 2012

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has demanded councils improve their adoption processes after latest figures revealed one in four authorities is exceeding time limits.

Adoption services improving at 'inadequate' council, say inspectors

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

| CYP Now

Ofsted has praised a council for improvements in finding permanent homes for looked-after children through adoption, two years after rating its children's services as "inadequate".

Adoption scorecards to reveal council performance

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

| CYP Now

Local authority performance on adoption targets is to be rated using a new system of scorecards.

Concerns over major drop in adopter recruitment

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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

| CYP Now

More needs to be done to attract suitable adoptive parents for children with complex needs amid a sharp drop in recruitment, an influential body set up by the government to drive through adoption reform has warned.

Major review into children's care system in Scotland gets under way

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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

| CYP Now

A "root and branch" review that will look into legislation, practices, culture and ethos of the children's care system in Scotland has launched.

Sir Martin Narey to chair Adoption Leadership Board

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Former Barnardo's chief executive Sir Martin Narey has been appointed to lead the Adoption Leadership Board, the body set up by the government to drive through reforms to the sector.

Thousands of adopted children miss out on education support, charity warns

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Adopted children as young as nine are missing out on additional support in school, due to an "arbitrary" government-imposed cut-off point, a charity has said.

Timpson strips Slough of responsibility for children's services

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services are to be delivered outside of council control in Slough as part of government efforts to improve performance.

Ofsted criticises Knowsley's 'inadequate' child protection services

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Children in Knowsley are being left at risk of harm due to serious failures in child protection services, a damning Ofsted report which labelled the authority "inadequate" has found.

Wood calls for sector to emulate other public services in use of volunteers

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Friday, July 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Volunteers could be used to a greater degree by children's services to support the work of social workers, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services has suggested.

Campaigners slam government U-turn over care support requirements

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has been criticised for giving councils too much flexibility in the way they offer long-term support to looked-after children.

Care proceedings run 14 weeks beyond target

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Monday, December 9, 2013

| CYP Now

The average length of care proceedings is still 14 weeks over a new target due to be introduced in April, latest figures show.

Alison O'Sullivan to be ADCS president in 2015

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Thursday, January 2, 2014

| CYP Now

The head of children's services for Kirklees has been announced as the vice president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services for 2014/15.

Tougher Ofsted inspection finds Hillingdon ‘requires improvement'

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

| CYP Now

The London Borough of Hillingdon has become the first council to be told that its child protection and care services must be improved under Ofsted's tougher new inspection framework.

Sheffield children's services ‘requires improvement'

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Monday, February 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Sheffield has been told to improve its children's services after an inspection highlighted weaknesses in performance on looked-after children and adoption.

End presumption that siblings in care should be kept together, Narey says

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| CYP Now

Brothers and sisters in care should not be kept together if doing so could damage their prospects of building a new life, the government's adoption adviser has claimed.

'Inadequate' council set to invest £12m to reduce number of children in care

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Friday, September 15, 2017

| CYP Now

A council rated as "inadequate" by Ofsted is planning to invest an extra £12m in children's social care in a bid to reduce the number of children coming into care.

Councils join forces to cut fostering costs

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

| CYP Now

Southampton City Council has launched a partnership with 10 other local authorities to reduce the cost of specialist fostering placements and plough the savings back into better services for children in care.

Fears prospective adopters could quit over drop in placement orders

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Friday, November 14, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities and adoption agencies are facing a battle to prevent would-be adoptive parents leaving the process due to the steep drop in children being approved for adoption, experts in the sector have warned.

Coalition fails to improve care placements

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The coalition government has failed to make any progress in getting children into the right placement when they first enter care and ensuring it is close to their home, a damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

Ofsted rates council 'inadequate' for second time in two years

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Friday, June 5, 2015

| CYP Now

Sandwell Council has said it is considering a formal challenge after Ofsted rated its children's services "inadequate" for the second time since 2013.

Pilot regional adoption agencies to place 200 children a year

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Monday, June 22, 2015

| CYP Now

The government wants to test regional adoption agencies that can find homes for 200 children and young people a year so that they can be operating at a more "efficient and effective" scale.

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Government vows to launch mental health check pilots later this year

Social work training programme opens to new candidates

Fostering and adoption take the lead in Scottish care

Councils ordered to reduce adoption delays

Adoption services improving at 'inadequate' council, say inspectors

Adoption scorecards to reveal council performance

Concerns over major drop in adopter recruitment

Major review into children's care system in Scotland gets under way

Sir Martin Narey to chair Adoption Leadership Board

Thousands of adopted children miss out on education support, charity warns

Timpson strips Slough of responsibility for children's services

Ofsted criticises Knowsley's 'inadequate' child protection services

Wood calls for sector to emulate other public services in use of volunteers

Campaigners slam government U-turn over care support requirements

Care proceedings run 14 weeks beyond target

Alison O'Sullivan to be ADCS president in 2015

Tougher Ofsted inspection finds Hillingdon ‘requires improvement'

Sheffield children's services ‘requires improvement'

End presumption that siblings in care should be kept together, Narey says

'Inadequate' council set to invest £12m to reduce number of children in care

Councils join forces to cut fostering costs

Fears prospective adopters could quit over drop in placement orders

Coalition fails to improve care placements

Ofsted rates council 'inadequate' for second time in two years

Pilot regional adoption agencies to place 200 children a year

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