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Children's commissioner calls for review of children's services cuts

Thursday, January 7, 2016

| CYP Now

There is an urgent need to review how funding cuts to children's services are affecting children, the children's commissioner for England has told MPs.

Payment-by-results outreach service to further bolster support for troubled families

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

| CYP Now

The government has invested 200m in a payment-by-results scheme offering outreach support to the UK's most troubled families.

Government to pump £200m more into Troubled Families programme

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Monday, June 24, 2013

| CYP Now

The government is to spend £200m to expand the Troubled Families programme to a further 400,000 families.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Children of parents who abuse alcohol miss out on support

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Friday, October 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Children of parents who misuse alcohol are missing out on help and protection because local services sometimes fail to identify their needs, a report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner has found.

Sector demands early intervention commitment from next government

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

| CYP Now

More than 50 children's sector organisations have joined forces to call on the next government to significantly boost early intervention spending.

Government commits to ‘long-term' funding for Centre of Expertise to tackle child abuse

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

| CYP Now

A proposed national Centre of Expertise in tackling child abuse will be around for the long-term, children's minster Edward Timpson has vowed amid concerns about potential levels of funding.

Charities demand government strategy for children of prisoners

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

| CYP Now

Government must introduce a national strategy to improve support for children of prisoners a group of charities has said.

Ofsted joint inspections delayed as councils shun pilots

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's plans to launch new joint inspections of health, social care and criminal justice services for children and young people have been delayed amid councils declining approaches to take part in trials, it has emerged.

DfE offers funding for development of intensive interventions for vulnerable children

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Friday, March 18, 2011

| CYP Now

The Department for Education is inviting councils and partner agencies to bid for up to 200,000 of funding to develop intensive interventions for looked-after children or children on the edge of care or custody.

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.

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils could save more than £32,000 for each troubled family they work with by providing services in a more effective way, a government report has claimed.

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

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Friday, March 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.

Troubled Families programme on course to miss targets

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Friday, April 4, 2014

| CYP Now

The government will miss its target to turn around the lives of 120,000 "troubled families" unless it speeds up the rate of success, a group of MPs has warned.

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

| CYP Now

It is now one week since an independent report by Professor Alexis Jay estimated that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. CYP Now looks at what has happened since publication last Tuesday.

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Children's commissioner calls for review of children's services cuts

Payment-by-results outreach service to further bolster support for troubled families

Government to pump £200m more into Troubled Families programme

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Children of parents who abuse alcohol miss out on support

Sector demands early intervention commitment from next government

Government commits to ‘long-term' funding for Centre of Expertise to tackle child abuse

Charities demand government strategy for children of prisoners

Ofsted joint inspections delayed as councils shun pilots

DfE offers funding for development of intensive interventions for vulnerable children

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

Troubled Families programme on course to miss targets

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

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