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Campaign aims to challenge foster care stereotypes

News

Thursday, March 7, 2024

| CYP Now

Foster Wales is working to amplify young people’s voice to challenge stereotypes and stigma faced by children in care.

CYP Now 2011 Awards open for entry

News

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's and youth organisations are being encouraged to enter this year's CYP Now Awards.

Welfare reforms will make children's lives worse

Other

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| CYP Now

I published a joint statement last week with my fellow children's commissioners across the UK about an issue that has kept many people across the children's sector both busy, and awake at night: the Welfare Reform Bill.

Ofsted calls on Salford to improve domestic abuse response

News

Friday, October 28, 2016

| CYP Now

Agencies in Salford have been told to improve the way they work to protect children who are exposed to domestic abuse following the first multi-agency inspections to look at the issue.

Care leaver covenant: Timpson confirms delay

News

Friday, October 28, 2016

| CYP Now

Plans to launch a covenant setting out the entitlements of care leavers in law have been delayed, with a number of government departments yet to commit to signing the landmark document.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

News

Monday, January 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Sweeping reform of the youth justice system is necessary to prevent hundreds of children being "needlessly" criminalised and sentenced to custody, according to a think-tank.

DfE to consider stripping children's services from 'inadequate' council

News

Friday, November 25, 2016

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has ordered a review into whether a council should be stripped of responsibility for children's services after Ofsted inspectors found instances of poor social work and cases of abuse not being spotted.

Fears for low-income families as DWP plans to abolish Social Fund

News

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| CYP Now

A fund that helps low-income families with living costs that are not covered by weekly benefits is set to be scrapped under the government's benefit reforms, it has emerged.

Ask the Experts: Precautions to ensure staff safety

Other

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Young mums see rosy future

Other

Monday, April 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Family nurse partnerships originated in the US in the 1970s to support first-time teenage parents. Imported to England six years ago, the government is continuing to fund their expansion. Joe Lepper finds out why

Damning report calls for safeguarding improvements in Rochdale

News

Friday, May 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Rochdale Council did not do enough to prevent teenage girls being groomed and abused in the borough, a report has found.

Charity launches tool to track work with troubled families

News

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Family Action has developed a tool to help councils track their performance in supporting families through the Troubled Families programme.

Safeguarding boards to report SCR decisions to new expert panel

News

Monday, July 1, 2013

| CYP Now

Heads of local safeguarding children boards (LSCB) must inform a new panel of experts within two weeks if they decide not to conduct a full serious case review (SCR) following a serious incident.

Handling a child protection crisis

Other

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

| CYP Now

College of Social Work chief Annie Hudson urges agencies and professionals to engage with the media.

Daily roundup: Outstanding schools, Teather quits, and foster carers

Other

Monday, September 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Three out of four schools now judged as good or outstanding; former children's minister to step down as MP; and foster care myths exposed, all in the news today.

Homeless Westminster families to be offered one-bedroom accommodation

News

Thursday, October 4, 2012

| CYP Now

Westminster council is under fire again following attempts to reduce the number of homeless families living in temporary accommodation in the area by downgrading its housing offer to parents of young children.

Charity condemns plan to pay benefits on ‘smart cards'

News

Thursday, October 18, 2012

| CYP Now

The charity Family Action has condemned government plans to explore the potential for giving benefit claimants their welfare payments on Oyster-style smart cards as opposed to cash.

Strategy calls for focus on children, not families, in bid to end poverty

Other

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

| CYP Now

The Welsh Government must overhaul its approach to child poverty in order to meet the target of eradicating the problem by 2020

Beating burnout

Features

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

| CYP Now

Former social worker Mike Bush, now a consultant and trainer on mental health in the workplace, advises managers on strategies to help their staff avoid "burning out" and leaving the profession.

Daily roundup: Homeless families, job satisfaction, and call for Royal Commission on child abuse

Other

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

| CYP Now

More families in B&B accommodation, youth work and childcare staff rate their job satisfaction, and a call for wide-ranging commission on child abuse, all in the news today.

4Children and LGA consortium to run Early Intervention Foundation

News

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

| CYP Now

A consortium led by the charity 4Children has been selected as the preferred bidder to run the first Early Intervention Foundation, the Department for Education has confirmed.

BAAF chief David Holmes to lead Family Action

News

Friday, December 14, 2012

| CYP Now

The chief executive of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) is stepping down after seven years in post to join the charity Family Action in March.

Health services neglected under SEN reforms, government warned

News

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

| CYP Now

Government proposals to reform the special educational needs (SEN) system will fail unless health services are placed under a legal duty to support children, MPs have warned.

Government to trial upfront Troubled Families payments

News

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Some councils will receive upfront funding to pay for support provided through the government's Troubled Families programme as part of a trial, it has been announced.