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SCRs need greater prevention focus, says NSPCC chief

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Serious case reviews (SCRs) need to focus more on learning the lessons from child protection failings to prevent them happening again, the head of the NSPCC has said.

Children's homes providers demand scrapping of new quality standards

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

| CYP Now

New quality standards for children's homes should be scrapped by the next government, an organisation representing residential care providers has said.

Exclusive: Former BAAF chiefs demand probe into collapse

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Two former chief executives of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) have called on regulators to investigate the sudden closure of the charity, claiming the process may have breached legal requirements.

Care leavers 'cut adrift' due to poor-quality support

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Friday, October 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Vulnerable young people leaving the care system are being "let down" and "cut adrift" due to the poor quality of support they receive from local authorities, MPs have said.

Council rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted plans children's centre closures

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

| CYP Now

A council where children's services were judged "inadequate" earlier this year has announced plans to close four of its 10 children's centres.

Ofsted joint safeguarding inspections to launch next month

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Friday, January 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Joint inspections of health, social care and criminal justice services for vulnerable children and young people will launch in February, it has been announced.

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

A council's children's services department has been rated as "requires improvement" by Ofsted after inspectors found a number of areas that need to be addressed.

National unit for secure children's home placements to be created

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Monday, April 4, 2016

| CYP Now

A local authority is to be handed national responsibility for co-ordinating placements of children in secure homes, children's minister Edward Timpson has said.

MPs call for action over FGM recording failings

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

| CYP Now

There needs to be tough action against health professionals failing to record instances of female genital mutilation (FGM), an influential group of MPs has said.

LGA fears children's centre closures if cuts continue

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Friday, May 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's centres, libraries and sports centres will all be at risk of closure if central government makes significant further cuts to council budgets, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities must do more to prevent the deaths of more than 60 children each year from preventable accidents, a report has found.

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's consultation over allowing councils to delegate children's social care services to third parties was insufficient and needs further debate, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on child protection has said.

Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

The cost of supporting children in care has reached £3.4bn, according to an Audit Commission report that exposes widespread variation of spending across councils.

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

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Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities have been ordered to undertake an audit of how they respond to child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal.

Daily roundup: School sports, tooth decay and academies

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Monday, March 18, 2013

| CYP Now

£150m for primary school sport, 41 per cent of children in Wales suffer tooth decay by five, and concerns over cost of academies in Birmingham, all in the news today.

£30m to fund innovative reforms to children's social care

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

| CYP Now

The government is to make £30m available over the next year to help children's professionals develop innovative ideas for reforming how children's social care is delivered.

Ofsted delays revised children's home inspections

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted has delayed by a year the introduction of new children's home inspections because of concerns they would be "inefficient".

Andrew Christie to take charge at first tri-borough children's services department

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Friday, July 22, 2011

| CYP Now

England's first director of children's services to be charged with managing provision across three local authorities is to control an annual budget of more than 500m.

Council launches Romanian recruitment drive to fill social work vacancies

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Friday, February 20, 2015

| CYP Now

A troubled children's services department has launched a social worker recruitment drive in Romania because it is struggling to fill vacancies with candidates in England.

Cost of raising residential care leaving age 'could exceed £500m'

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

| CYP Now

The cost of raising the age that children can remain in children's homes from 18 to 21 could exceed £500m, the man leading a government review of residential care has said.

MPs and peers to probe children's services cuts

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

| CYP Now

An inquiry into local authority children's social care and the impact of major spending cuts in recent years is to be conducted by MPs and peers, it has been announced.

DfE unveils four-year adoption strategy

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has announced plans to change the law to pave the way for more children to be adopted as part of a wide-ranging four-year strategy.

Foster carers reject Staying Put over lack of financial support

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Foster carers are reluctant to allow young people to remain with them until they are 21 because of a lack of financial support for the flagship government policy, it has emerged.

Ofsted appoints interim social care chief

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

| CYP Now

Islington Council's director of children's services (DCS) has been appointed to take over as Ofsted's national director of social care on an interim basis, it has been announced.

Ofsted joint inspections 'will heap pressure' on children's services

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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to introduce joint inspections of child protection services will add greater pressure to already stretched services, it has been claimed.

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SCRs need greater prevention focus, says NSPCC chief

Children's homes providers demand scrapping of new quality standards

Exclusive: Former BAAF chiefs demand probe into collapse

Care leavers 'cut adrift' due to poor-quality support

Council rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted plans children's centre closures

Ofsted joint safeguarding inspections to launch next month

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

National unit for secure children's home placements to be created

MPs call for action over FGM recording failings

LGA fears children's centre closures if cuts continue

Councils urged to tackle preventable child deaths and injuries

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

Daily roundup: School sports, tooth decay and academies

£30m to fund innovative reforms to children's social care

Ofsted delays revised children's home inspections

Andrew Christie to take charge at first tri-borough children's services department

Council launches Romanian recruitment drive to fill social work vacancies

Cost of raising residential care leaving age 'could exceed £500m'

MPs and peers to probe children's services cuts

DfE unveils four-year adoption strategy

Foster carers reject Staying Put over lack of financial support

Ofsted appoints interim social care chief

Ofsted joint inspections 'will heap pressure' on children's services

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