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CAMHS needs waiting time target honoured
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Opinion
- Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | CYP Now
The NHS Long Term Plan sets out ambitious pledges to improve children and young people's mental health services over the next decade.
Time to invest in the children's workforce
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Opinion
- Wednesday, January 2, 2019 | CYP Now
Ask children's services leaders - whether a director of children's services, head teacher or nursery manager - what motivates their staff, and most will say it's a passion to improve outcomes for children, not the wage that comes with it.
Focus on reunification could stem care rise
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | CYP Now
As 2018 draws to a close, funding across the entire children's sector has never felt more precarious.
Early help must prove it cuts care demand
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 30, 2018 | CYP Now
Graham Allen's 2011 report Early Intervention: The Next Steps makes clear that the real savings from early help lay in its ability to reduce the numbers coming into care to such an extent that fewer high-cost residential facilities would be needed.
Benefits of funded childcare need selling
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | CYP Now
When searching for reasons for the low take-up of funded childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds in England, debate has focused on whether providers are being adequately remunerated to create sufficient places.
Strategy must boost youth opportunities
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Opinion
- Tuesday, August 28, 2018 | CYP Now
The government's long-awaited Civil Society Strategy recognises the "transformational impact that youth services and trained youth workers" can have on disadvantaged young people.
Incentives are key to halt school exclusions
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Opinion
- Tuesday, July 31, 2018 | CYP Now
The education committee's report on exclusions and alternative provisions makes it abundantly clear that the current system is failing some children, and that rising exclusion rates are a reflection of this.
Grenfell must bequeath legacy of collaboration
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Opinion
- Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | CYP Now
Looking for silver linings to come out of a disaster such as Grenfell Tower would be churlish. However, the way community groups and charities have responded to the tragedy, which claimed 71 lives, 19 of them children, on 14 June last year, is an example of what can be achieved when organisations work in collaboration.
Youth violence response needs local co-ordination
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | CYP Now
The government is to invest £11m to develop new youth violence prevention projects as part of its £40m, two-year Serious Violence Strategy.
More adoption contact could improve outcomes
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Opinion
- Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | CYP Now
A review has concluded that current arrangements around adoption contact are not meeting the needs of birth families and adopted children.
Promoting stability has to be care system focus
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 27, 2018 | CYP Now
The headline findings from the Our Lives Our Care survey published in late February are encouraging for everyone working in children's social care.
Impact of the SIF will be felt for many years
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Opinion
- Tuesday, January 2, 2018 | CYP Now
Two years ago, Ofsted national director for social care Eleanor Schooling said she expected children's services judgments under the single inspection framework (SIF) to begin improving.
Government must commit to make PSHE mandatory
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 28, 2017 | CYP Now
One of the watershed moments of 2017 for the children's sector was the government's decision in March to legislate for the introduction of age-appropriate relationships and sex education (RSE).
Police show why early help is everyone's duty
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 31, 2017 | CYP Now
In a passionate address at the recent National Children and Adult Services Conference, Stuart Gallimore, vice-president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), explained that cuts to his budget in East Sussex means he will have to make decisions about provision he knows don't "make sense" in the long run. He, like other DCSs, faces the dilemma to reduce funding to early help provision to maintain services for children in care and at risk - knowing that doing so could raise the vulnerability of those whose problems are less severe.
National safety net for SEND funding needed
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 26, 2017 | CYP Now
There are few more emotive issues than school funding. The government was reminded of this earlier in the year when, in the run-up to the general election, it was forced to backtrack on plans for a national funding formula over concerns the changes would see many schools lose money. To address this, the government pledged in the summer an extra £1.3bn from existing Department for Education coffers to plug the hole in the schools budget. It means that under the revised national formula, published in September (News, p4), every school will now receive a per-pupil funding rise. Few would argue that the formula needed changing, but questions remain about whether its replacement will solve the current crisis.
Tackling child poverty can solve funding crisis
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Opinion
- Tuesday, August 29, 2017 | CYP Now
A decade since the first edition of Children & Young People Now, the financial equation facing children's services has changed dramatically.
PSHE education is vital to prevent radicalisation
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Opinion
- Thursday, June 1, 2017 | CYP Now
Recent events in Manchester have again highlighted young people's vulnerability to brainwashing by extremist ideology.
Relationship skills protect against a 'robot revolution'
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Opinion
- Thursday, May 4, 2017 | CYP Now
Analysis by think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has found that a third of all jobs - 10 million across the UK - are at risk of being lost to automation over the next 20 years.
School inclusion best for struggling pupils
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 11, 2017 | CYP Now
Department for Education data shows permanent exclusions in state-funded schools rose from 4,950 to 5,800 in 2014/15.
Education system set up to 'manage out' pupils in need
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 14, 2017 | CYP Now
From September, the education services grant (ESG), used by councils to fund school-based additional learning support for disadvantaged groups of pupils, will be scrapped.
Councils must invest in skills to beat social worker shortage
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Opinion
- Tuesday, January 31, 2017 | CYP Now
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