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Ofsted joint safeguarding inspections to launch next month

Friday, January 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Joint inspections of health, social care and criminal justice services for vulnerable children and young people will launch in February, it has been announced.

Ambition chief executive set to join sexual health charity Brook

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

| CYP Now

The chief executive of Ambition is to leave the organisation - the announcement coming just a week after it emerged that the youth charity is in merger talks.

Councils face DfE 'clawback' of millions in Sure Start grants

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Friday, March 11, 2016

| CYP Now

Local authorities are trying to find ways to avoid paying back millions of pounds in children's centre grants handed out more than a decade ago, it has emerged.

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

A council's children's services department has been rated as "requires improvement" by Ofsted after inspectors found a number of areas that need to be addressed.

National unit for secure children's home placements to be created

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Monday, April 4, 2016

| CYP Now

A local authority is to be handed national responsibility for co-ordinating placements of children in secure homes, children's minister Edward Timpson has said.

NHS to take over health services for young offenders in secure homes

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

| CYP Now

Responsibility for commissioning health services for children and young people in secure children's homes and secure training centres is to transfer to the NHS.

MPs call for action over FGM recording failings

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

| CYP Now

There needs to be tough action against health professionals failing to record instances of female genital mutilation (FGM), an influential group of MPs has said.

LGA fears children's centre closures if cuts continue

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Friday, May 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's centres, libraries and sports centres will all be at risk of closure if central government makes significant further cuts to council budgets, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Children England to develop campaigning focus

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Children England is to give its members a central role in drawing up its policy manifesto for children, young people and families for the next general election.

NCAS Conference: Children's services spending pressures to be investigated

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Friday, October 18, 2013

| CYP Now

A forensic study into the factors influencing councils' spending on children's services will aim to improve local decisions and inform the next national public spending review.

Old Station Nursery boss sells four settings

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Thursday, May 22, 2014

| CYP Now

The first nursery chain owner to successfully overturn a complaint-driven Ofsted inspection judgment has reduced the number of settings she runs.

Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities must do more to prevent the deaths of more than 60 children each year from preventable accidents, a report has found.

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's consultation over allowing councils to delegate children's social care services to third parties was insufficient and needs further debate, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on child protection has said.

Dozens of councils ignore youth service legal duty

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Less than half of local authorities always take into account their legal duty to provide sufficient support for young people when making decisions about youth service funding, survey findings show.

Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

The cost of supporting children in care has reached £3.4bn, according to an Audit Commission report that exposes widespread variation of spending across councils.

Lib Dems would triple early years premium, says Laws

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

| CYP Now

The Liberal Democrats are calling for the new early years pupil premium to be more than tripled in the next parliament.

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

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Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities have been ordered to undertake an audit of how they respond to child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal.

Nicky Morgan: Promote British values to quash racism concerns

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

| CYP Now

The promotion of fundamental British values will make the children's workforce more confident in investigating concerns linked to race, the Education Secretary has said.

Youth centres to get support from businesses

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Monday, October 27, 2014

| CYP Now

Businesses will be teamed up with youth centres as part of Cabinet Office attempts to generate greater funding and support for the sector.

Councils slam DfE over school building delays

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

The government is struggling "to get its act together" to improve its delay-hit school building and repairs programme, according to the Local Government Association.

Daily roundup: School sports, tooth decay and academies

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Monday, March 18, 2013

| CYP Now

£150m for primary school sport, 41 per cent of children in Wales suffer tooth decay by five, and concerns over cost of academies in Birmingham, all in the news today.

Forms of business support for youth sector identified

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Friday, May 4, 2012

| CYP Now

A range of different types of support that businesses can provide youth organisations have been identified as part of a project to strengthen links between commerce and the youth sector.

Children's charities welcome U-turn on tax relief plans

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Friday, June 1, 2012

| CYP Now

Children and young people's charities have welcomed the government's decision to reverse its cap on tax relief for charitable donations first announced in the Budget in March.

£30m to fund innovative reforms to children's social care

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

| CYP Now

The government is to make £30m available over the next year to help children's professionals develop innovative ideas for reforming how children's social care is delivered.

Ofsted delays revised children's home inspections

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted has delayed by a year the introduction of new children's home inspections because of concerns they would be "inefficient".

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Ofsted joint safeguarding inspections to launch next month

Ambition chief executive set to join sexual health charity Brook

Councils face DfE 'clawback' of millions in Sure Start grants

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

National unit for secure children's home placements to be created

NHS to take over health services for young offenders in secure homes

MPs call for action over FGM recording failings

LGA fears children's centre closures if cuts continue

Children England to develop campaigning focus

NCAS Conference: Children's services spending pressures to be investigated

Old Station Nursery boss sells four settings

Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

Dozens of councils ignore youth service legal duty

Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

Lib Dems would triple early years premium, says Laws

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

Nicky Morgan: Promote British values to quash racism concerns

Youth centres to get support from businesses

Councils slam DfE over school building delays

Daily roundup: School sports, tooth decay and academies

Forms of business support for youth sector identified

Children's charities welcome U-turn on tax relief plans

£30m to fund innovative reforms to children's social care

Ofsted delays revised children's home inspections

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