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Vetting agency must foster responsibility

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 19, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Keeping children safe from abuse is always a highly charged topic. It is naturally the first priority of most parents. It is vital for children's services departments, since a high-profile child abuse case causes untold damage not just to the child but to the whole service.

Supply and demand mismatch in adoption

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
    • | CYP Now
When I read the government’s letter exhorting councils to prioritise the adoption of children in care, I groaned inwardly and muttered: “Here we go again.”

Take better care of the UK's young carers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 20, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Support for carers has come under the spotlight lately. A Standing Commission on Carers was established in September, reporting to the Health Secretary, while a renewed bout of publicity will come with Carers' Rights Day on 7 December.

Policy into practice - Domestic abuse

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 25, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: The effects of domestic abuse on young people can be long lasting. More than a quarter experience depression, anger, guilt and low self- esteem later in life. About 750,000 children a year witness abuse at home, according to the Department of Health.

The cycle of domestic violence can be broken

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
An incidence of domestic violence is reported to the police every minute of every day. This disturbing fact gives us a sense of the number of children who experience or witness abuse as part of their home environment.

Putting payment-by-results under the microscope

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 19, 2010
    • | CYP Now
So the new high ground in the funding of public policy for young people is "payment-by-results". It is so easy to say, so immediately appealing that one can hardly argue against it. Quite naturally, in the difficult fiscal times to come, people will want value for money.

Fighting for survival

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 14, 2011
    • | CYP Now
A manager at one voluntary organisation talks about what the cuts have meant for her project's work, the fight to keep it going and her fears for the future.

Right support vital to keep families together

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The Clear Blue Waterreport by England's chief social worker Isabelle Trowler and the University of Sheffield is a brave, compelling and defensible reminder of the care we have to take over life-changing decisions about whether and why we think a child should be permanently removed from their birth parents.

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