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Longfield recruits Narey as children's commissioner adviser

Friday, September 23, 2016

| CYP Now

Former Barnardo's chief executive Sir Martin Narey is one of several high profile figures that have been signed up to provide advice to children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield, it has been announced.

Multi-agency inspection identifies child protection weaknesses

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Thursday, June 30, 2016

| CYP Now

Agencies in a London borough have been told that improvements are required in the way they work to protect children.

DfE appoints commissioner at ‘inadequate' council

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Monday, June 27, 2016

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has appointed a commissioner at a council where Ofsted rated children's services as ‘inadequate'.

Limit set on council child refugee numbers

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

| CYP Now

A limit on the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children that local authorities will be expected to support has been set by government.

Family court criticised over Ellie Butler death

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

| CYP Now

A serious case review has criticised the role of the family courts for their role in returning six-year-old Ellie Butler to her parents 11 months before she was beaten to death by her father.

Cases of child neglect increase by 75 per cent

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

| CYP Now

Child cruelty and neglect cases, recorded by police across the UK, have risen by 75 per cent over the last decade, according to latest research published by the NSPCC.

High-performing councils explore alternative delivery models for children's services

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

| CYP Now

A growing number of councils with children's services departments that have been rated as "good" by Ofsted are considering alternative delivery models, it has emerged.

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Monday, June 6, 2016

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Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils have missed a first year target for numbers of families they worked with in the first year of the government's high profile troubled families initiative, it has emerged.

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils have missed a first year target for the numbers of families to be worked with under the government's flagship troubled families initiative.

Ofsted to visit inadequate councils every three months

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

| CYP Now

Ofsted will begin visiting councils with inadequate children's services every three months as part of a shake-up of how struggling local authorities are reinspected.

Rotherham unveils plan to create child-centred borough

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

| CYP Now

The council at the centre of a major abuse scandal in 2014 has unveiled plans to improve services and create a "child-centred borough".

Concern over implications of ‘profound' safeguarding reforms

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Friday, May 27, 2016

| CYP Now

Proposed changes to local authority safeguarding arrangements including ending the current system of serious case reviews and dropping the requirement for councils to have local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs), risk confusing and distracting the sector, it has been claimed.

Queen's Speech: Sector welcomes Children and Social Work Bill

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has set out plans to reform children's social care through a Children and Social Work Bill, with the proposals being broadly well received by the sector.

Government commits £8m to national Centre of Expertise to tackle child abuse

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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

| CYP Now

Work to create a national Centre of Expertise in tackling child abuse will get under way in August, funded with £8m in government cash, it has emerged.

DfE appoints commissioner at ‘inadequate' council

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Friday, May 13, 2016

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has appointed a commissioner to oversee children's services at a local authority where provision was rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Tri-borough appoints new head of children's services

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Monday, May 9, 2016

| CYP Now

The tri-borough arrangement of children's services covering Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster, has appointed a new head of children's services.

Social work accreditation failure ‘will not trigger de-registration'

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

| CYP Now

Social workers who fail new accreditation tests being introduced by government will not lose their registration, the chief social worker for children has said.

Ofsted ‘inadequate' council reduces social work caseloads by 30 per cent

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

| CYP Now

A council where children's services were last year rated "inadequate" by Ofsted has succeeded in recruiting scores of new social workers and reducing caseloads by 30 per cent, it has emerged.

Young carers number is ‘tip of the iceberg'

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

| CYP Now

There could be hundreds of thousands of hidden young carers in schools across England, according to research.

DfE-backed co-operative housing scheme for care leavers to launch

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Friday, April 29, 2016

| CYP Now

A council is set to launch a co-operative company to provide supported housing for care leavers as part of pioneering attempts to improve outcomes.

Children in care denied help with mental health problems

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils and specialist services are failing to support children in care who have mental health problems, a probe by MPs has found.

Former ADCS president to oversee development of mental health services for children in care

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

| CYP Now

A former president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has been appointed by government to oversee attempts to boost support for children in care with mental health problems.

Local authorities express interest in health and children's services link-ups

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Monday, April 18, 2016

| CYP Now

More local authorities could be set to hand over responsibility for children's services to NHS trusts, with a number of enquiries being made to a council that has already taken the pioneering step.

Government yet to fulfil major CSE strategy pledges

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

| CYP Now

The government is yet to deliver on three major elements of its child sexual exploitation (CSE) strategy more than a year after it was unveiled, it has emerged.

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Longfield recruits Narey as children's commissioner adviser

Multi-agency inspection identifies child protection weaknesses

DfE appoints commissioner at ‘inadequate' council

Limit set on council child refugee numbers

Family court criticised over Ellie Butler death

Cases of child neglect increase by 75 per cent

High-performing councils explore alternative delivery models for children's services

Daily roundup: XXXXX

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

Ofsted to visit inadequate councils every three months

Rotherham unveils plan to create child-centred borough

Concern over implications of ‘profound' safeguarding reforms

Queen's Speech: Sector welcomes Children and Social Work Bill

Government commits £8m to national Centre of Expertise to tackle child abuse

DfE appoints commissioner at ‘inadequate' council

Tri-borough appoints new head of children's services

Social work accreditation failure ‘will not trigger de-registration'

Ofsted ‘inadequate' council reduces social work caseloads by 30 per cent

Young carers number is ‘tip of the iceberg'

DfE-backed co-operative housing scheme for care leavers to launch

Children in care denied help with mental health problems

Former ADCS president to oversee development of mental health services for children in care

Local authorities express interest in health and children's services link-ups

Government yet to fulfil major CSE strategy pledges

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