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'Alarming' number of trafficked children go missing from care

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

| CYP Now

More than 750 trafficking victims and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children went missing in the space of a single year, with 40 per cent of them yet to be found, it has emerged.

YOTs urged to improve data sharing on imprisoned children

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams (YOTs) have been told to improve the way they share information on young people sentenced to custody to make services more efficient and safe.

Multi-agency partnerships improve child abuse detection

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Multi-agency child protection arrangements are improving information sharing across partner bodies and helping to identify safeguarding problems quicker, a government review of local partnerships has found.

£19m fund to help adopted children access therapy

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Adoptive parents will be able to access a fund worth £19.3m to get help such as therapy for children who may have been abused or neglected, the government has announced.

Children in poorest postcodes '10 times more likely to end up in care'

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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

| CYP Now

Children in the most deprived neighbourhoods in the UK are at least 10 times more likely to be in care than children in the least deprived areas, a study has found.

Tax evasion crackdown 'threatens early intervention'

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Attempts to fund early intervention work through social finance would be compromised by a government bid to crack down on tax evasion through charitable donations, it has been claimed.

Action for Children interventions help to prevent neglect

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Friday, May 25, 2012

| CYP Now

The risk of neglect decreased for eight out of ten children following early intervention strategies implemented by Action for Children, an evaluation has revealed.

Councils intervene earlier to take children into care

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Friday, May 25, 2012

| CYP Now

Local authorities have started intervening earlier to take vulnerable children into care since the death of Baby Peter, a study by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has found.

Council lined up to help neighbour's 'inadequate' children's services

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Friday, July 21, 2017

| CYP Now

A council that has twice been rated as "inadequate" by inspectors over the last seven years is set to receive help from a council where services are rated as "requires improvement", it has emerged.

Government cracks down on out-of-borough placements under sexual exploitation reforms

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Monday, July 2, 2012

| CYP Now

The government is to make it harder for councils to place looked-after children in care homes outside of their local area, as part of wide-ranging reforms to protect young people from sexual exploitation and improve the children's home system.

'Terrifying' welfare reforms will drive up care referrals, warns Munro

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| CYP Now

The architect of the government's child protection reforms has warned that changes to welfare policy could inadvertently increase the number of children being referred to social care services.

Joint working model cuts safeguarding case delays

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Multi-agency safeguarding hubs (Mash) in London have nearly halved the amount of time it takes to deal with child protection referrals, according to new research.

85 children die every year through abuse or neglect, report says

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Monday, July 30, 2012

| CYP Now

Around 85 children and young people die in England each year as a result of abuse or neglect, according to an analysis of serious case reviews by academics.

Goodwill announces £20m drive to improve children's services

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Thursday, October 12, 2017

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has set aside up to £20m to encourage councils to support each other to improve children's services standards, children's minister Robert Goodwill has announced.

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect to be suffering from neglect, but up to 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, a report has warned.

Paul Ennals to chair Haringey child safeguarding board

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Former National Children's Bureau chief executive Sir Paul Ennals has been appointed as chair of Haringey's Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB).

Domestic violence project to focus on children's needs

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

| CYP Now

More than 700 children who have been affected by domestic violence are to benefit from help and support as part of a £470,000 project being delivered by charity Buttle UK.

Children's directors rally against profit-making in child protection

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Child protection services should not be outsourced to organisations intending to make a profit, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly 500 children in Manchester were potentially left at risk because social work assessments were not carried out quickly enough, a report that has rated the city's children's services as "inadequate", has found.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

Ofsted: Councils failing to protect children from CSE

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities are failing in their statutory duty to protect children from the risk of sexual exploitation (CSE), Ofsted has concluded.

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services standards

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has been told to improve the quality of its work with children and young people after Ofsted inspectors identified "significant areas for development".

UK should take 3,000 more child refugees, MPs say

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

The government should agree to take in an additional 3,000 child refugees from Syria who are stranded in Europe, a group of MPs has said.

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.

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'Alarming' number of trafficked children go missing from care

YOTs urged to improve data sharing on imprisoned children

Multi-agency partnerships improve child abuse detection

£19m fund to help adopted children access therapy

Children in poorest postcodes '10 times more likely to end up in care'

Tax evasion crackdown 'threatens early intervention'

Action for Children interventions help to prevent neglect

Councils intervene earlier to take children into care

Council lined up to help neighbour's 'inadequate' children's services

Government cracks down on out-of-borough placements under sexual exploitation reforms

'Terrifying' welfare reforms will drive up care referrals, warns Munro

Joint working model cuts safeguarding case delays

85 children die every year through abuse or neglect, report says

Goodwill announces £20m drive to improve children's services

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

Paul Ennals to chair Haringey child safeguarding board

Domestic violence project to focus on children's needs

Children's directors rally against profit-making in child protection

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

Slough children's services to become independent trust

Ofsted: Councils failing to protect children from CSE

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services standards

UK should take 3,000 more child refugees, MPs say

Ofsted praises council for outstanding work with children in care

DfE commits to fresh funding for social care innovation programme

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