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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
CYP Now 2013 Awards open for entry
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- Monday, April 15, 2013 | CYP Now
The 2013 Children & Young People Now Awards - the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK - are open for entries.
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: Exclusion inequalities, the Budget and early years teachers
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- Thursday, March 21, 2013 | CYP Now
Children unfairly excluded from schools, campaigners say the Budget failed disadvantaged children, and DfE consults on early years teacher standards, 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: Benefit reforms, 17-year-olds in custody, and unqualified teachers
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- Monday, March 11, 2013 | CYP Now
Archbishop issues warning on benefit changes, a call for 17-year-olds in police custody to be treated as children, and unqualified teachers being recruited by free schools, 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
Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect
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- Wednesday, February 6, 2013 | CYP Now
Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect to be suffering from neglect, but up to 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, a report has warned.
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
Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning
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- Thursday, January 31, 2013 | CYP Now
Central government must urgently consult local authorities on how new "social value" laws could impact on children's services, it has been has warned.
Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'
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- Thursday, January 24, 2013 | CYP Now
Plans to redirect £150m of early intervention funding into adoption reform risk reducing frontline services for vulnerable children, the chair of the Local Government Association's (LGA) children and young people board has warned.
Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform
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- Thursday, January 24, 2013 | CYP Now
The government has slashed £150m from the Early Intervention Grant to plough into attempts to increase the number of adoptions in England, children's minister Edward Timpson has confirmed.
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