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Child Sexual Exploitation: Policy context

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Child sexual exploitation, while on the radar of child protection agencies and organisations, was catapulted to the top of the political and policy agenda by the revelations in August 2014 that 1,400 children in Rotherham had been systematically sexually abused and exploited over a 16-year period.

We must listen to children affected by domestic abuse

    Other
  • Tuesday, January 7, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Did you enjoy the festive break? Some families will still be reeling from the effects - especially those living with domestic abuse. We know there is a seasonal spike in the reported incidents of domestic abuse over the holiday period and I do not expect this year to have been any different. And where there is domestic abuse in families, the impact on children and young people can be especially distressing.

ADCS president speaks out in favour of 'exemption clause'

    News
  • Tuesday, February 14, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Government plans to allow councils to apply for exemptions from children's social care legislation will help councils to better support young people, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services has said.

'Inadequate' council launches Barnardo's partnership

    News
  • Thursday, June 22, 2017
    • | CYP Now
A council currently rated "inadequate" by Ofsted has announced it will launch a project with children's charity Barnardo's, just months after a joint bid for £7m of Department for Education innovation funding was turned down.

Grooming case highlights failings

    Other
  • Monday, June 25, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Following the conviction of a child grooming ring in Rochdale, Jo-Anne Prud'homme, legal researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, asks what more agencies could have done to protect the victims

Fewer families forcibly removed from UK

    News
  • Tuesday, January 24, 2017
    • | CYP Now
The number of families being forcibly removed from the UK is on the decline, with more choosing to return voluntarily since a family returns system was introduced in 2011.

ADCS calls for Ofsted workforce shake-up

    News
  • Friday, October 31, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted must recruit existing children's services professionals to inspect local authority social care arrangements if it is to boost confidence in its judgments, the head of the Association of Directors of children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Legal Update: Tackling child sexual exploitation

    Other
  • 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.

Young people and communities hold the key to ending FGM

    Other
  • Tuesday, March 3, 2015
    • | CYP Now
The issue of female genital mutilation (FGM) is climbing up the ladder of political priorities. The knowledge that there has not been a single successful prosecution since the FGM Act was introduced in 2003 is causing much soul-searching - in government, in the crown prosecution service and in local safeguarding boards across the country.

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