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Council launches drive to recruit 'resilience foster carers' for troubled teenagers

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

| CYP Now

Former police and prison officers are being urged to become "resilience foster carers" offering homes to the most challenging looked-after teenagers, as part of a Staffordshire County Council campaign.

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect to be suffering from neglect, but up to 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, a report has warned.

Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Central government must urgently consult local authorities on how new "social value" laws could impact on children's services, it has been has warned.

Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Plans to redirect £150m of early intervention funding into adoption reform risk reducing frontline services for vulnerable children, the chair of the Local Government Association's (LGA) children and young people board has warned.

Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has slashed £150m from the Early Intervention Grant to plough into attempts to increase the number of adoptions in England, children's minister Edward Timpson has confirmed.

NSPCC appoints Peter Wanless as chief executive

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

| CYP Now

The NSPCC has appointed a former senior civil servant to be its chief executive from June this year.

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.

Youth Contract to help more young people

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

| CYP Now

An additional 15,000 16- and 17-year-olds are to receive help to find work or training through the Youth Contract, following a government review of the programme's "narrow" criteria.

Antisocial behaviour bill ‘could imprison more young people'

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Monday, January 14, 2013

| CYP Now

More children and young people could end up in prison if the government's draft antisocial behaviour bill becomes legislation, the Standing Committee for Youth Justice has warned.

Pledge to retain visibility of early intervention spending is 'tiny concession'

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Friday, January 4, 2013

| CYP Now

The government's decision to compel local authorities to reveal their early intervention expenditure by publishing a funding profile has been attacked as a "meaningless exercise".

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Council launches drive to recruit 'resilience foster carers' for troubled teenagers

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning

Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'

Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform

NSPCC appoints Peter Wanless as chief executive

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

Youth Contract to help more young people

Antisocial behaviour bill ‘could imprison more young people'

Pledge to retain visibility of early intervention spending is 'tiny concession'

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