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The awards that really matter

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  • Monday, April 15, 2013
  • | CYP Now
The Children & Young People Now Awards represent the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK. They recognise the most innovative and effective work in transforming young lives and building a better society. Too much of this work goes unnoticed and unappreciated - these awards set to put that right and spread good practice.

Who would want to be a DCS today?

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  • Tuesday, October 15, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Directors of children's services are under ever-increasing pressure and first in the firing line if tragedy strikes. Jo Stephenson examines what the future holds for the role and why anyone would aspire to do it.

Spending for the future: Can we do more with less?

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  • Tuesday, October 30, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Despite belated signs of economic growth, further cuts loom beyond the end of the spending review period in 2015. CYP Now asks four figureheads to set out the long-term challenges in financing children's services

Councils need the means to deliver foster care support

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  • Tuesday, December 17, 2013
  • | CYP Now
A little over two months ago, the Fostering Network called on the government to do the right thing - both morally and economically - by extending financial support to foster carers and in doing so enable children they care for to stay in the placement past their 18th birthday and up to 21 if they so wish.

The 2014 Report

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  • Tuesday, January 7, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Sector leaders look at the year ahead for children and young people.

How charities can demonstrate social value to commissioners

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  • Tuesday, March 17, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The way public services are commissioned is undergoing considerable change, but charities pitched into competition for funding with private companies have a possible advantage - as long as they can demonstrate the additional social values they provide above and beyond the primary aims of a project.

On the case with the Cafcass intake team

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  • Monday, April 13, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The creation of an "intake team" by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service has improved the speed and accuracy of information sent to courts. Charlotte Goddard spent a day with them.

Recovery through therapy must be care system's goal

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  • Monday, July 20, 2015
  • | CYP Now
I published the State of the Nation for Children in Care report this month on the views of 3,000 children in care and care leavers aged eight to 25. One of the most startling findings was the staggering 50 per cent who said they didn't understand why they were in care in the first place.

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