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Budget 2023: Chancellor urged to offer permanent financial aid to vulnerable families

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

| CYP Now

Councillors across England and Wales are supporting The Children’s Society’s call for the government to offer long-term welfare assistance to families struggling to cope with rising living costs in the upcoming Spring Budget.

Local Spotlight: Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| CYP Now

North West borough has plans to transform children's social care but a shortage of permanent practitioners remains a problem.

Test and learn approach improves outcomes in Southend

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| CYP Now

Families in deprived areas of Southend are being supported by a unique “test and learn” programme that aims to give vulnerable children the best possible start in life.

Reforms need a cabinet-level champion

Opinion

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| CYP Now

The government has set out its ambition to reform children's social care, with a focus on providing vulnerable children with loving, stable homes.

Childline uses tech to track impact of its online support

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| CYP Now

Childline Online Services aims to empower children and young people to use its range of internet-based resources in ways that will benefit them individually.

Legal Update: Legal aid changes

Features

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| CYP Now

Richard Oldershaw, senior legal consultant at Coram Children's Legal Centre's Child Law Advice Service, looks at the impact of changes to legal aid arrangements on children's access to justice.

In the new edition of CYP Now: Care reforms, evaluating impact, police commissioners

News

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| CYP Now

The March edition of Children & Young People Now has the most up-to-date news, views and analysis on all the major issues affecting services for children, young people and families.

Workforce shortage is threat to care reforms

Opinion

Thursday, February 23, 2023

| CYP Now

The government's Care Review response, Stable Homes, Built on Love, sets ambitious targets for improving children's outcomes, testing new approaches to early help, and boosting professional standards in child protection work.

Directors blame disjointed policy and onerous inspection for high turnover rates

News

Monday, February 20, 2023

| CYP Now

Rising workloads, an onerous inspection regime and lack of policy leadership are key factors in the high turnover of directors of children’s services (DCS), latest research shows.

Children's social care funding key driver behind council tax increases

News

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

| CYP Now

Three in four councils are planning to increase their council tax by the maximum amount in April, in order to fund vital public services such as children’s social care, research from the County Councils Network (CCN) has found.

Ofsted praises ‘transformation’ of children’s services at Lancashire County Council

News

Monday, February 13, 2023

| CYP Now

Ofsted has praised the “transformation” of Lancashire County Council's children’s services, lifting its rating from “requires improvement” to “good”.

Council failed to support woman and children fleeing violence, ombudsman finds

News

Thursday, February 9, 2023

| CYP Now

West Berkshire Council has been criticised by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) for failing to provide safe accommodation to a woman and her children who were fleeing threats of violence.

Ofsted praises ‘accelerated improvements’ in Blackpool’s children’s services

News

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

| CYP Now

Blackpool Council's children’s services has seen “accelerated improvements” since being rated "inadequate" by Ofsted in 2018, but inspectors have advised more progress is needed to ensure all children receive help and protection.

Child sexual abuse offences surpass 100,000 for the first time

News

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

| CYP Now

Police forces in England and Wales recorded the most child sexual offences ever in 2021/22, with numbers surpassing 100,000 for the first time.

How charities are doing more for less

Features

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| CYP Now

The cost-of-living crisis means charities working with children and families have seen costs spiral as demand for services increases. Sector experts and charities discuss key challenges and solutions.

Therapeutic Care: Policy context

Other

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| CYP Now

Therapeutic care has its roots in the post-war psychoanalytic movement that sought to understand the impact trauma has on children and young people and what support needs to be put in place to give them the best chance of recovering.

In the latest edition of CYP Now: Therapeutic care, charity sustainability, play provision

News

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| CYP Now

The February edition of Children & Young People Now provides all the latest policy developments and practice advice for professionals working with children, young people and families.

Challenge Fund 2

Funding

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| CYP Now

The Challenge Fund 2, funded by the Department for Work and Pensions, is part of the second phase of the government's Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) programme.

Children need prompt action on digital risks

Opinion

Thursday, January 26, 2023

| CYP Now

The Online Safety Bill is currently undergoing its second reading in the House of Lords as it meanders its way through the parliamentary process.

One million under-fours ‘growing up in poverty’

News

Thursday, January 26, 2023

| CYP Now

One million children under the age of four are growing up in poverty, a charity's report has revealed.

It's finally time to act on what children say

Opinion

Thursday, January 26, 2023

| CYP Now

A Shropshire clergyman by the name of John Mirk is believed to be the person who coined the phrase “children should be seen, not heard”. That was more than 600 years ago, and yet this toxic pronouncement endured for a remarkably long time.

Children in foster care worry more about family life, report finds

News

Monday, January 23, 2023

| CYP Now

Children in foster care are more likely to be concerned about their family life than other children, a report has found.

Council increases spending for ‘inadequate’ children’s services by almost a fifth

News

Thursday, January 19, 2023

| CYP Now

Devon County Council has announced it will increase spending on children’s services by just under a fifth.

Sector criticises ‘unsafe’ proposals for supported accommodation

News

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

| CYP Now

Children’s social care organisations have slammed proposed quality standards for unregulated supported accommodation for 16- and 17-year-olds, in response to a public consultation carried out by the Department for Education.