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Lost in transition

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  • Tuesday, May 15, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Despite significant changes to government legislation and guidance, care leavers still face a postcode lottery of support from their local authorities. Joe Lepper investigates

Innovation in residential care

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  • Monday, May 14, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Children and young people in residential care have a range of behavioural and emotional difficulties. Tristan Donovan examines what four homes are doing to improve their life chances

Support to improve?

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  • Monday, May 14, 2012
    • | CYP Now
The jury still appears to be out on the coalition government's support and improvement programme for children's homes. Tristan Donovan examines what it has achieved so far

Managing the costs of care

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  • Monday, May 14, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Local authorities are increasingly joining forces to commission services for looked-after children. Jo Stephenson asks whether cutting costs will compromise the quality of care

Separation anguish

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  • Monday, May 14, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Children in care speak of the importance of sustaining relationships with siblings, yet estimates reveal that three quarters are separated on entering care. Emily Rogers reports

More power to foster carers

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  • Monday, May 14, 2012
    • | CYP Now
The government is working on plans to improve the status of foster care amid an acute national shortage of carers. Ben Willis investigates what ?needs to be done

Care league tables get mixed reaction

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  • Monday, November 14, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Stark variations in care services look set to increase despite the desire to raise standards by publishing new league tables ranking local performance, the government is being warned.

Homeless ruling serves to dent care leaver support

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  • Monday, October 17, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Local authorities are footing extra costs of up to half a million pounds each year after a House of Lords ruling entitled homeless teenagers to care support, directors of children's services have told CYP Now.

Carers need training to reduce suicide risk

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  • Friday, August 5, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Foster carers and residential childcare workers need basic mental health training to stem the number of looked-after children and care leavers who take their own lives, the government has been told.

Private homes shun restorative justice

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  • Monday, February 21, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Vulnerable children are being unnecessarily criminalised because of a reluctance to deploy restorative justice techniques in private children's homes, a report has warned.

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