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Legal Update: Tackling child sexual exploitation

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  • Tuesday, December 9, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Jen Roest, research and projects officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines a call to address child sexual exploitation in Manchester through attitudinal change of public agencies and the legal system.

Forced to leave for coming out

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  • Tuesday, December 9, 2014
  • | CYP Now
One in four young homeless people are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender according to estimates. Emily Rogers visits a housing project addressing their specific needs and explores the lessons for other services.

Doncaster's deliverer

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  • Monday, October 13, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Neil Puffett speaks to Paul Moffat, chief executive, Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

Rescuing girls from sexual violence

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  • Monday, October 13, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Police and youth charities are warning about an increase in the use of sexual violence by gangs against young women. Louise Hunt visits one project working with young people to halt this alarming trend.

Welfare of children must be a shared responsibility

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  • Monday, September 29, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Back in 2005, I became responsible for children's services in Dudley. With my new responsibility for social care, I followed the usual learning journey - the "unconsciously incompetent" phase, when I didn't even know what I was ignorant about, to the "consciously incompetent" phase, when I realised how much I didn't know, to the "consciously competent", when I had a better understanding but still did not have any sort of autopilot.

Editorial: Strong police presence is vital to safer schools

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  • Monday, September 1, 2014
  • | CYP Now
CYP Now's investigation into school safety reveals some worrying trends in terms of the reduction in police presence in schools. A third of police forces have cut the number of PCs and community support officers based in schools over the past two years, while overall numbers of officers dedicated to this type of work has also fallen over the same period.

Integrated care service vital to help support troubled families

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  • Monday, August 4, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Integrated care is an idea with legs. It is gaining currency among the major political parties, as they realise that the segregation of health and social care, for example, leads to waste, duplication and gaps through which service users easily fall.

Legal Update: Call for action plan on FGM

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  • Monday, July 21, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The home affairs committee has published a report calling for a national action plan on female genital mutilation. Catrin Gosby, researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the report's proposals.

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