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Doncaster report reveals delays in establishing trust

Friday, February 14, 2014

| CYP Now

Efforts to create an independent trust to run children's services in Doncaster are weeks behind schedule, it has emerged.

Warrington DCS to lead Ofsted's social care improvement work

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

| CYP Now

The head of children's services in Warrington has been appointed by Ofsted to spearhead attempts to improve social care across England.

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

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Friday, January 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Parenting support programmes significantly cut the risk of children developing behavioural problems and becoming offenders in adolescence and adulthood, a new study suggests.

Teachers lack skills to spot child neglect

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

| CYP Now

School staff can play a key role in helping identify and co-ordinate multi-agency responses to child neglect but too often lack the skills to accurately assess risk, a research report concludes.

Daily roundup: Spending cuts, childcare reforms and drug mules

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Monday, January 6, 2014

| CYP Now

George Osborne warns of further spending cuts; government advisers urge ministers to rethink childcare reforms; and gangs use children to carry drugs out of London, all in the news today.

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.

Call for better co-ordinated support for disadvantaged families

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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

| CYP Now

Support services need to be better co-ordinated in order to ensure government programmes to ‘turn around' the lives of struggling families reach their full potential, the chief executive of 4Children has said.

Sure Start committee chair outlines children's centres vision

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

| CYP Now

Placing children's centres on a statutory footing and making them the hub of support services from conception to the age of two would help protect them from local authority funding cuts, an influential MP has said.

Councils ‘turn around' one in three troubled families

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Monday, November 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authorities in England have "turned around" the lives of more than one in three struggling families they have been working intensively with as part of the government's Troubled Families programme.

Children-in-need data indicates referrals decline

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Friday, November 1, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of children-in-need referrals is at its lowest level for three years, according to latest government figures.

Tougher requirements for independent social work providers rejected

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Monday, October 28, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has dismissed calls to strengthen requirements for GP-style social work practices to employ registered social workers.

Daily roundup: Pelka protest, social worker jobs and child trafficking

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Friday, October 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Campaigners calling for justice for Daniel Pelka protest at council offices; "vilification" of social workers blamed for low job applications; and child trafficking experts to train African officials, all in the news today.

Daniel Pelka SCR: Four-year-old "invisible" to professionals

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

| CYP Now

A four-year-old who was murdered after months of starvation and beatings was effectively "invisible" to professionals as a result of language barriers, a probe has found.

All primary school pupils to be taught about abuse

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Monday, September 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Volunteers will visit every primary school in the UK at least once every two years under plans to prevent abuse by teaching children about the issue.

Sandwell creates network of early intervention local hubs

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Friday, August 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Sandwell Council is to create a network of local multidisciplinary hubs to act as an "early warning system" for identifying troubled families.

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Doncaster report reveals delays in establishing trust

Warrington DCS to lead Ofsted's social care improvement work

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

Teachers lack skills to spot child neglect

Daily roundup: Spending cuts, childcare reforms and drug mules

Alison O'Sullivan to be ADCS president in 2015

Call for better co-ordinated support for disadvantaged families

Sure Start committee chair outlines children's centres vision

Councils ‘turn around' one in three troubled families

Children-in-need data indicates referrals decline

Tougher requirements for independent social work providers rejected

Daily roundup: Pelka protest, social worker jobs and child trafficking

Daniel Pelka SCR: Four-year-old "invisible" to professionals

All primary school pupils to be taught about abuse

Sandwell creates network of early intervention local hubs

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