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Sandwell starts to tackle service problems after private partner deal
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
Simon White, the privately-employed DCS at Sandwell Council, says other struggling authorities may follow their lead by partnering with an outside agency to run children's services
Child safeguarding: leaders' debate
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
Children's services leaders from councils across England discussed the current challenges of safeguarding children at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with 4Children. Ravi Chandiramani reports
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Wales
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- Monday, May 13, 2013 | CYP Now
Edited By Jane Williams;
University of Wales Press;
ISBN: 978-0708325629;
£34.99;
240 pages
Daily roundup: Junk food advertising, police youth ambassador salary and Universal Credit trial
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- Monday, April 29, 2013 | CYP Now
Call for crackdown on online marketing of junk food; salary of £25,000 proposed for police youth ambassador, and new welfare system starts, all in the news today.
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.
Working Together to Safeguard Children: key revisions explained
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- Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | CYP Now
It has been two years in the making, but the revised Working Together guidance has finally been published. The new, streamlined version contains crucial information for all those with a role in safeguarding children
Daily roundup: Child protection, 'avoidable deaths', and violent extremism
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- Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | CYP Now
Doncaster child protection faces review, UK comes bottom of EU league for avoidable child deaths, and anti-extremism programme helps 500 young people, all in the news today.
Remit of children's chiefs expands as Webb takes on ADCS presidency
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- Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | CYP Now
Andrew Webb, the first president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services not to have the word "children" in his title, tells CYP Now his policy priorities for the year ahead and his views on an evolving role
Daily roundup: Child poverty, school sport and girls at risk
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- Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | CYP Now
London councillors attack child poverty policies, BBC predicts more money for school sport, and union warning on sex education, all in the news today.
Children and Families Bill must heed children's views
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- Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | CYP Now
The Children and Families Bill, which began its second reading in parliament last week, focuses in large part on the most vulnerable children in society.
Legal Update: The Children and Families Bill
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
The Children and Families Bill includes a number of proposed reforms to existing legislation. Christopher Sykes, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the principal changes
A fresh workforce strategy is vital
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
The ability to make a difference to children's lives is critically affected by the quality and training of the professionals and practitioners who work with them.
Mutual benefits
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
Public sector employees are being encouraged to take control of the services they provide and run them as mutuals. Joe Lepper looks at the experiences of those pioneering the approach in children's services
Daily roundup: Child poverty, special educational needs, and rough sleeping
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- Friday, February 8, 2013 | CYP Now
Change in child poverty indicators urged; teaching assistants taking the lead on SEN, and £1m research project on children sleeping rough, all in today's news roundup.
Central intelligence
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- Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | CYP Now
Multi-agency safeguarding hubs bring together different professionals to share intelligence about children at risk. As they spring up nationwide, Joe Lepper examines what impact they are having
Daily roundup: HPV, hospital data sharing, and whistleblowing row in Kingston
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- Friday, February 1, 2013 | CYP Now
Call for the HPV vaccine to be given to boys, hospitals fail to share data on gun and knife crime, and Kingston's former director of children's services under fire over 'cover-up' allegations, all in the news today.
DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department's former ministers.
Do we need more men?
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
Women outnumber men across the children's workforce, particularly in work with young children. Charlotte Goddard investigates whether it matters and what employers could do to redress the balance
Councils aim to share burden of reform
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
A Children's Improvement Board scheme is allowing councils to learn from each other's experiences