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Sunday, April 3, 2022

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Plans to hand over control of children’s services in West Sussex to an independent trust have been shelved after “continued and secure progress” was made by the county council, a report says.

Lifelong Links improves children’s mental health and wellbeing, study shows

Friday, April 1, 2022

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A programme helping children in care to maintain positive relationships with family members has been found to deliver year-on-year improvements to their mental health and wellbeing, a study shows.

Inside the April edition of CYP Now: Care commissioning reforms, outdoor learning special, CYP Now Awards winners

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

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The latest edition of Children & Young People Now is packed with must-read articles and need-to-know information to help children’s services professionals navigate the emerging policy and practice challenges.

Legal Update: Migrant looked-after children

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

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With one in 10 children in care being non-British, local authorities need to do more to identify and address their needs, says Marianne Lagrue, policy manager at Coram Children’s Legal Centre.

Award-winning work with children

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

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With the launch of the CYP Now Awards 2022, we take a look at the work of four of last year's winners.

International Focus: Perinatal care, Australia

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

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The cost to the UK of perinatal mental health difficulties is estimated to be £8bn annually. Jill Domoney visited Australia, a world-leader in this field, to see how agencies there support new parents and infants.

Free school meals eligibility for disadvantaged migrant children made permanent

Thursday, March 24, 2022

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Eligibility for free school meals will be permanently extended to cover children from families who are unable to access benefits due to their immigration status, the children’s minister has said.

Bedfordshire: Early help services effectively support children and families, inspection finds

Monday, March 21, 2022

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Inspectors have praised early help services for children in Bedfordshire as part of “effective partnership working” that delivers intensive support to children and families.

In the March edition of CYP Now: Levelling up, remote working and therapeutic communities

Thursday, March 3, 2022

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The new edition of Children and Young People Now is packed with the latest policy analysis, advice from leading experts and examples of best practice for professionals working with children and families.

Levelling Up: the key proposals for children and young people

Analysis

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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Flagship policy paper sets out plans to boost education outcomes for pupils in disadvantaged communities and invest in youth training, but children’s services leaders criticise lack of measures on child poverty.

University access key to success of levelling up

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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It is a decade since university tuition fees were raised from £3,000 to £9,000 per year. It was feared the rise would deter disadvantaged young people from going to university, yet latest figures from Ucas shows record numbers of 18-year-olds from poorer areas applied this year.

The time to diversify children’s services is now

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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It’s summer 2020 and I am co-facilitating a workshop for The Staff College exploring diversity in leadership with a group of energetic future leaders in children’s services.

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children in Child Welfare Services in England

Research

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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The report authors obtained data from the Department for Education (DfE), using a Freedom of Information request, to establish whether Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children are over-represented in children’s social services in England compared with the general population.

Levelling up is about more than better grades

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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The government’s levelling-up agenda has the potential to be a master key to unlock opportunity for children and young people and we have been eagerly anticipating the newly published white paper.

Children's services at new unitary authority 'impeded' by social work quality

Monday, February 21, 2022

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Poor social work practice and difficulties around recruitment and retention of staff has impeded the “scale and speed” of improvement for children’s services in Buckinghamshire, Ofsted has found.

North Somerset: Vulnerable childrens' needs secondary to parents', Ofsted finds

Monday, February 14, 2022

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Inspectors have criticised children’s services at North Somerset Council for putting children’s needs and the assessment of risk for some young people “secondary” to the needs of parents.

Conference shines spotlight on effective evidence and evaluation

Friday, February 4, 2022

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Leading experts in using evidence and evaluation to improve children’s outcomes will be speaking at CYP Now’s Evaluation in Action conference next month.

In the latest edition of CYP Now: Foster care special, digital poverty, and SEND Review

Thursday, February 3, 2022

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The February edition of CYP Now is packed with need-to-know information and advice on all the big issues affecting services for children, young people and families.

Local Spotlight: Dorset Council

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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South West council has overcome reorganisation, the pandemic and previous poor performance to achieve ‘good’ rating.

Legal Update: Discharge of SGOs

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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Leonie Jordan, associate legal consultant at CoramBAAF, highlights some of the complex issues and potential instabilities surrounding the process for discharging special guardianship orders.

Children’s services reform needs brave leaders

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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There’s a lot happening in children’s policy making – not that this gets any airtime in the context of the febrile political atmosphere surrounding Covid and turbulence in government leadership.

Make kinship care first port of call for children, charity urges

Monday, January 17, 2022

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A family rights charity is calling for kinship care to be the “first port of call” in cases where there are concerns for a child’s welfare.

Surge in online sexual abuse of young children

Thursday, January 13, 2022

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Online sexual abuse of young children aged between seven and 10 increased three-fold last year, new research shows.

In the January edition of CYP Now: Sustainable services special, workforce development, safeguarding in the spotlight