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Concerns raised over safety of children in alternative provision

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

| CYP Now

More needs to be done to ensure the safety of children who are educated in alternative provision away from mainstream schools, Ofsted has said.

SEN inspection plans 'unsustainable', say children's services chiefs

News

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to assess an area's special educational needs (SEN) provision are "untimely and unsustainable", according to the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS).

Minister outlines future education role for councils

News

Friday, December 11, 2015

| CYP Now

The government has clarified the role it expects councils to play in shaping and monitoring local education services as the number of schools that convert to academy status increases.

Review: Life on the Autism Spectrum - A Guide for Girls and Women

Other

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Behind the Inspection Rating: Success for SEN one-stop-shop

Other

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Stepping Stones, Wiltshire - Early years inspection - October 2015

Ombudsman criticises council over SEN support

News

Thursday, November 5, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has been criticised for failing to properly support a young person with special educational needs (SEN) plan for the future.

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

Other

Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Qualification requirements and training provision for working with children and young people is continuously adapting in line with changes in policy and practice. Charlotte Goddard provides a comprehensive overview.

Legal Update: Caring for refugee children

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the UK government's response to the refugee crisis and foster care provision for refugee children.

Timescales hinder SEN reforms

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Councils struggle to provide education, health and care plans within the required deadlines, say campaigners

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?

Funding cuts lead councils to seek new ways of delivering youth work

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

A new round of government funding through the Delivering Differently for Young People programme will aim to help more local authorities develop effective models of providing youth services at a reduced cost

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).

School SEN allocations 'unfair', study finds

News

Friday, July 17, 2015

| CYP Now

The way funding is allocated to schools so they can support children with special educational needs (SEN) is perceived as unfair and should be changed because it does not tally up with requirements on the ground, a report has concluded.

Government 'fails to improve education of young disabled people'

News

Monday, June 22, 2015

| CYP Now

The government is failing to meet its pledge to ensure young people with disabilities can access specialist further education colleges, it has been claimed.