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General Election 2024: Key manifesto pledges for children’s social care

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority leaders and children’s sector organisations have pleaded with whoever forms the next government to properly invest in children’s social care services.

Project for adults with learning disabilities to be extended to care leavers

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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

| CYP Now

A social care service that offers foster care support to adults with learning disabilities is being made available to care leavers.

Conservative Party manifesto: restrictions on children's social media access among raft of pledges

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

| CYP Now

Creating more residential care places, restricting children’s access to social media and boosting post-16 vocational training opportunities are some of the key policies affecting children and young people in the Conservative Party’s general election manifesto.

Liberal Democrats pledge investment in disadvantaged children's education

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Monday, June 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The Liberal Democrats have pledged a series of policies to narrow the attainment gap for disadvantaged children and boost educational opportunities for young people in their manifesto for the 2024 general election.

Significant increase in children living with vulnerabilities, DfE figures reveal

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Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

There has been an 82% increase in council funded alternative provision (AP) placements for children not in mainstream school and a 15.4% rise in free school meal (FSM) eligibility since 2018/19, government figures show.

Children’s services pressures driving £6.2bn funding gap, LGA warns

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Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authorities face a £6.2 billion funding gap over the next two years due in part to rising pressures on children’s services, new research from the Local Government Association (LGA) reveals.

Children’s minister unable to confirm child benefit allowance levels

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Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

Children’s minister David Johnston has come under fire after struggling to confirm the current child benefit allowance.

Young people urge next government to back ‘urgent' social care reforms

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Thursday, June 6, 2024

| CYP Now

A group of more than 70 children in care and care leavers have written an open letter to the leaders of all political parties ahead of July’s general election calling on them to back reform of the care system.

Councils cannot refuse responsibility for lone migrant children, High Court rules

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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authorities cannot legally refuse responsibility for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in their area on the grounds that they cannot safely accommodate them, a High Court judge has ruled.

‘Undervalued’ foster carers consider quitting role, survey warns

News

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

| CYP Now

Three quarters of foster carers say feeling undervalued in their role is forcing them to consider resignation, according to a major new study.

Council offers ‘best foster care recruitment package in London’

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Thursday, May 30, 2024

| CYP Now

A London council is offering potential foster carers the equivalent of a £72,000 annual salary in a bid to increase placements in the borough.

County council leaders urge next government to curb high cost of children’s services

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Thursday, May 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Implementing a price cap on children’s residential care providers and reducing the cost of home-to-school transport for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are among county council leaders’ calls for the next government.

Compulsory reporting of child sexual abuse plan dropped ahead of election

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Thursday, May 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Controversial plans to introduce compulsory reporting of child sexual abuse (CSA) for some professionals working with children have been axed ahead of the general election on 4 July.

Sector leaders criticise lack of progress two years on from Care Review publication

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Thursday, May 23, 2024

| CYP Now

Children’s charities and sector leaders have raised concerns about the “painfully slow progress” of implementing reforms to the children’s social care system two years after recommendations were made in Josh MacAlister's Independent Review of Children's Social Care.

Bill to remove profit from children’s care introduced into Welsh Senedd

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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

| CYP Now

A bill to remove profit from the care of looked-after children has been laid before the Welsh parliament.

General Election 2024: What the children and young people's sector wants to see from the next government

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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

| CYP Now

Charities supporting children and young people have released manifestos detailing what they want from the next government in the run up to the general election after more than a decade of cuts to public services.

Support for adopted teenagers needs ‘urgent and dramatic improvement’, charity warns

News

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

| CYP Now

Teenagers are being let down by adoption services in England, Adoption UK has warned.

Hundreds of supported accommodation providers register with Ofsted

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Monday, May 20, 2024

| CYP Now

Almost 300 providers of supported accommodation for 16- and 17-year-olds in care have been registered by Ofsted, new figures show.

University scheme to support care leavers into nursing

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Monday, May 20, 2024

| CYP Now

The University of Roehampton has launched a new programme designed to make healthcare careers accessible to young care leavers.

Council’s children’s services praised for ‘excellent’ family support

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Friday, May 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Children’s services in Brighton and Hove have been rated as “outstanding” by Ofsted with inspectors praising the “excellent support” received by families.

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General Election 2024: Key manifesto pledges for children’s social care

Project for adults with learning disabilities to be extended to care leavers

Conservative Party manifesto: restrictions on children's social media access among raft of pledges

Liberal Democrats pledge investment in disadvantaged children's education

Significant increase in children living with vulnerabilities, DfE figures reveal

Children’s services pressures driving £6.2bn funding gap, LGA warns

Children’s minister unable to confirm child benefit allowance levels

Young people urge next government to back ‘urgent' social care reforms

Councils cannot refuse responsibility for lone migrant children, High Court rules

‘Undervalued’ foster carers consider quitting role, survey warns

Council offers ‘best foster care recruitment package in London’

County council leaders urge next government to curb high cost of children’s services

Compulsory reporting of child sexual abuse plan dropped ahead of election

Sector leaders criticise lack of progress two years on from Care Review publication

Bill to remove profit from children’s care introduced into Welsh Senedd

General Election 2024: What the children and young people's sector wants to see from the next government

Support for adopted teenagers needs ‘urgent and dramatic improvement’, charity warns

Hundreds of supported accommodation providers register with Ofsted

University scheme to support care leavers into nursing

Council’s children’s services praised for ‘excellent’ family support

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