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Ofsted criticises children's home where staff 'condone' drugs

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

| CYP Now

Ofsted has criticised a residential children's home where staff allowed drugs to be used on the premises.

Ofsted praises council for outstanding work with children in care

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

| CYP Now

A council has been praised for its services for looked-after children, with Ofsted labelling some of its work as "outstanding".

DfE commits to fresh funding for social care innovation programme

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

| CYP Now

Local authorities and charities will be able to access a fresh round of government funding to test innovative ideas for children's social care, it has emerged.

MoJ shelves plans to transfer custody budgets

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

| CYP Now

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has no plans to devolve the cost of youth custody to local authorities once a high-profile pilot project finishes this year, it has emerged.

Government vows to launch mental health check pilots later this year

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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.

Majority of councils have a principal social worker in place

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Monday, March 18, 2013

| CYP Now

More than two thirds of local authority children's services have appointed a principal social worker as recommended in the Munro review two years ago.

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.

Care home champion NCERCC relaunched

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Friday, November 9, 2012

| CYP Now

The National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC) has relaunched, more than two years after government funding was controversially withdrawn, CYP Now can reveal.

Labour Conference 2011: Creasy calls for overhaul of care leaver support

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

| CYP Now

Financial education should be given to care leavers to ensure they do not face a life of debt, conference delegates have heard.

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.

Birmingham criticised for failing to meet autistic boy's needs

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Birmingham City Council has been rebuked by the Local Government Ombudsman for failing to provide support to the mother of an autistic boy whose violent behaviour was deemed to be of "considerable risk" to others.

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.

Government dismisses '20-mile rule' for children's home placements

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has rejected calls for it to consider prohibiting local authorities from placing children in residential care more than 20 miles from home.

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.

First 'innovation' funds handed to tri-borough councils

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

| CYP Now

London's tri-borough children's services are to receive £4m from the government's innovation fund, the first award to be made under the initiative.

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.

London lord mayor Fiona Woolf to lead child sexual abuse inquiry

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Friday, September 5, 2014

| CYP Now

The current lord mayor of London Fiona Woolf will lead an independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse, the government has announced.

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.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

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Friday, October 24, 2014

| CYP Now

A lack of authority-wide support for change and an "arcane" IT system were key reasons for slow progress in improving children's services in Somerset, the council's former director of children's services (DCS) has claimed.

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.

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Ofsted criticises children's home where staff 'condone' drugs

Ofsted praises council for outstanding work with children in care

DfE commits to fresh funding for social care innovation programme

MoJ shelves plans to transfer custody budgets

Government vows to launch mental health check pilots later this year

Majority of councils have a principal social worker in place

Social work training programme opens to new candidates

Care home champion NCERCC relaunched

Labour Conference 2011: Creasy calls for overhaul of care leaver support

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

Birmingham criticised for failing to meet autistic boy's needs

Timpson strips Slough of responsibility for children's services

Government dismisses '20-mile rule' for children's home placements

Ofsted criticises Knowsley's 'inadequate' child protection services

First 'innovation' funds handed to tri-borough councils

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

London lord mayor Fiona Woolf to lead child sexual abuse inquiry

Campaigners slam government U-turn over care support requirements

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

Care proceedings run 14 weeks beyond target

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