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Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2020
  • | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

Shared Services: Policy context

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Defining what shared services are is vital to understand the approaches that work best in services for children and young people and whether there is scope for this to grow.

Evidence and Impact: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Despite the political parties pledging billions of pounds of additional investment in public services during the election campaign – and assurances from ministers in the previous government that the era of austerity is over – the need for projects and organisations working with vulnerable children, young people and families to demonstrate their interventions are an efficient and effective use of resources has never been greater.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 27, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Rising demand for children's services and increasing expectations of what they should deliver - while coming at a time when resources are shrinking - has created a necessity among local authorities to find new ways of reaching more people at less cost.