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Family help will work for generations

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 1, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Our main feature this week focuses on how Family Intervention Projects (FIPs) are turning many lives around. FIPs are in vogue. The Prime Minister pledged to extend them to 50,000 of the most chaotic families last autumn. And there is a rich seam of evidence now emerging that FIPs work. The latest evaluations suggest that two-thirds of families are no longer involved in antisocial behaviour as a result.

Children in care need to be heard

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 3, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Young people from the UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) debated in the House of Commons chamber last Friday, the first body of people other than MPs to occupy the green benches.

Prevention is first line of protection

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Lord Laming's report on the state of child protection has injected great urgency in efforts to keep children safe from abuse and neglect. All 58 of his recommendations to improve practice through better procedures, training and lines of accountability have been accepted by the government. The spotlight is on child protection like rarely before.

Gove gives joint working a rude jolt

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.

Social workers must be prepared

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 22, 2010
    • | CYP Now
An alarming 93 per cent of social workers believe that new staff entering the profession lack the necessary skills to do the job properly.

Homeless teens enter the equation

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The numbers of looked-after children are on the rise as the recession takes its toll on families and social workers become more risk-averse in the aftermath of Baby P.

Editorial: The defiance of Sharon Shoesmith

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Haringey's former director of children's services has now told her side of the Baby P story. Strikingly, three months on, the ability to unequivocally say sorry still eludes Sharon Shoesmith in the interviews that surfaced last weekend.

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