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DfE releases second round of funding for migrant children mentoring scheme

Thursday, February 8, 2024

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has released a new tranche of funding to enable local authorities to deliver mentoring programmes to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Dorset to trial early help scheme to avoid children being taken into care

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

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A pilot scheme to offer early help to families where there is a risk of children being taken into care is to launch in Dorset.

Consultation launches on statutory guidance for council use of agency social workers

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

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The Department for Education has launched a four-week consultation on new statutory guidance for the use of agency social workers by local authority children’s services.

Liverpool’s ‘inadequate’ children’s services improving, says Ofsted

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

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Ofsted has welcomed measures being taken by Liverpool City Council to improve its children’s services, which were rated as “inadequate” in May last year.

Call for greater involvement of children’s social care in local health plans

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

| CYP Now

A lack of joined up working with children’s social care and education settings is contributing to inconsistencies in addressing the needs of babies, children and young people in local health plans, according to research.

Two more councils vote to recognise care experience as a protected characteristic

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

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Two more councils have passed a motion to recognise care experience as a protected characteristic, including the first Welsh council to do so.

Sector recruitment challenges key barrier to safeguarding children, report warns

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Recruitment and retention challenges across services working with families is a key barrier to safeguarding vulnerable children, a major report warns.

Annual spending by councils on private children’s home placements soars

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on private residential care placements for children has increased by almost a quarter over the last year, latest government figures show.

Judge highlights ‘gargantuan’ challenges in finding suitable welfare placements

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Monday, January 29, 2024

| CYP Now

A High Court judge has criticised “insurmountable challenges” in securing care placements for teenagers with complex mental health needs after a 14-year-old girl, who was deprived of her liberty, was forced to live in a hospital side room for at least six weeks before being placed in an unregistered setting.

Councils still face ‘difficult decisions’ despite children’s services funding boost

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority and children's services leaders have welcomed a £600m government funding boost to relieve pressure for support services but say it "does not negate the need for a sufficient long term funding settlement for children".

Child refugees wrongly assessed as adults facing abuse and exploitation, charities warn

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

| CYP Now

Child refugees are being wrongly assessed as adults and are facing abuse, harassment, and exploitation after being placed in adult hotels and detention facilities, a group of charities is warning.

NCB launches evaluation of Care Review reforms

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

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The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) has partnered with economists to deliver a five-year evaluation of reforms to children’s social care.

Worcestershire Council to resume in-house control of children’s services

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

| CYP Now

Worcestershire County Council is to close a company it was ordered by the government to set up to run children’s services in the area.

Praise for council’s care leaver support package

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Durham County Council’s children’s services department has been praised over its support for young people leaving care.

Sexual exploitation review finds child protection failings at Rochdale Council

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Rochdale Council and police failed to protect children at risk of sexual exploitation in the Greater Manchester town more than a decade ago, an independent review has found.

Three in four councils appeal for more support to reunite families, survey finds

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Councils are calling on the government for support to help them reunite children with their families and reduce local authorities’ children in care costs, according to a survey.

Children's homes 'reluctant' to accept children with complex needs, Ofsted reports

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

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More than nine in 10 local authorities struggle to find homes for children with complex needs, warns a report by Ofsted, highlighting a reluctance by homes to accept such referrals as a key factor behind the issue.

Ofsted criticises council over 'unsuitable' placements for care leavers

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Monday, January 15, 2024

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Staffordshire County Council’s children’s services have been downgraded by Ofsted due in part to concerns over its care leaver offer, including the placement of young people in "unsuitable short-term accommodation".

Major expansion of family court reporting pilot announced

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Friday, January 12, 2024

| CYP Now

Media reporting of family proceedings is to be extended to a further 16 courts in England as part of an expansion of a pilot scheme aiming to increase transparency of the family justice system.

Child sexual offences remain ‘close to record levels’, NSPCC figures show

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The number of child sexual offences being recorded by police has fallen slightly over the last year, but remains “close to record levels”, according to analysis by the NSPCC.

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DfE releases second round of funding for migrant children mentoring scheme

Dorset to trial early help scheme to avoid children being taken into care

Consultation launches on statutory guidance for council use of agency social workers

Liverpool’s ‘inadequate’ children’s services improving, says Ofsted

Call for greater involvement of children’s social care in local health plans

Two more councils vote to recognise care experience as a protected characteristic

Sector recruitment challenges key barrier to safeguarding children, report warns

Annual spending by councils on private children’s home placements soars

Judge highlights ‘gargantuan’ challenges in finding suitable welfare placements

Councils still face ‘difficult decisions’ despite children’s services funding boost

Child refugees wrongly assessed as adults facing abuse and exploitation, charities warn

NCB launches evaluation of Care Review reforms

Worcestershire Council to resume in-house control of children’s services

Praise for council’s care leaver support package

Sexual exploitation review finds child protection failings at Rochdale Council

Three in four councils appeal for more support to reunite families, survey finds

Children's homes 'reluctant' to accept children with complex needs, Ofsted reports

Ofsted criticises council over 'unsuitable' placements for care leavers

Major expansion of family court reporting pilot announced

Child sexual offences remain ‘close to record levels’, NSPCC figures show

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