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Children and Social Work Bill: main measures, key questions
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- Tuesday, June 7, 2016 | CYP Now
Sector leaders explain how proposals in the Children and Social Work Bill could affect care leavers, safeguarding and adoption services, as well as the impact they will have for social workers and councils.
Care Review: key proposals for the children’s services workforce
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Analysis
- Wednesday, June 1, 2022 | CYP Now
A range of challenges including excess bureaucracy, ineffective technology and out-of-date legislation have resulted in a workforce crisis in many aspects of children’s social care, which requires a complete overhaul.
News roundup: IRO case settlement, breakfast club, child protection
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- Friday, June 7, 2013 | CYP Now
Independent reviewing officer settles whistleblowing case, Blackpool breakfast club gets glowing report, and DfE looks to change safeguarding rules as a result of teacher child porn case, all in the news today
Daily roundup: Adoption figures, Doncaster and anti-gay school rules
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- Tuesday, August 20, 2013 | CYP Now
Adoptions increase at fastest rate for 15 years, Hackney DCS to lead Doncaster changes, and DfE to probe policies banning 'promotion' of homosexuality, all in the news today.
Barnardo's to pursue 'radical' drive for children's services partnerships
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- Tuesday, October 3, 2017 | CYP Now
Children's charity Barnardo's is keen to form children's services partnerships with councils across the country and is in "deep discussions" with a number of local authorities, its chief executive has said.
Daily roundup: Social work practice pilots, sexual exploitation in Derby and mental health in schools
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- Thursday, September 27, 2012 | CYP Now
An evaluation of social work practices, the British Association of Social Workers gives its views on sexual exploitation in Derby, and a new mental health guide for schools, all in the news today.
Dozens of London children go missing from out-of-area care
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News
- Monday, April 14, 2014 | CYP Now
Children from London who are placed in care outside of their home area are going missing on average every two and a half days, it has emerged.
Thousands contact adoption agencies after visiting national website
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- Friday, May 2, 2014 | CYP Now
Nearly 7,000 people who have visited England's national adoption service website since it launched last year have gone on to contact an adoption agency, it has emerged.
Children's social workers face knowledge test
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- Thursday, July 31, 2014 | CYP Now
New children's social workers will have to pass a test of their knowledge in order to become an approved practitioner as part of government attempts to improve the quality of the profession, it has been announced.
Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn
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News
- Thursday, August 21, 2014 | CYP Now
The cost of supporting children in care has reached £3.4bn, according to an Audit Commission report that exposes widespread variation of spending across councils.
Daily roundup: Online abuse, early intervention, and social investment bonds
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- Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | CYP Now
A call for e-safety lessons to be introduced, the Early Intervention Foundation gets off the ground, and a social investment bond scheme opens to public investors, all in the news today.
Ofsted rates council 'inadequate' amid concerns over leadership
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News
- Tuesday, June 13, 2017 | CYP Now
A council has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted after inspectors found "serious and widespread failures" across children's services and questioned the integrity of its leadership team.
Daily roundup: Cyber crime, disabled children and children's centres
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- Tuesday, February 18, 2014 | CYP Now
Northamptonshire Police warns of online dangers; survey highlights social exclusion of disabled children, and Somerset saves threatened children's centres, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Mental health, online safety, and early years
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- Tuesday, March 25, 2014 | CYP Now
Adults missing mental health warning signs in children; study finds very young children view inappropriate material online; and DfE criticised over early years workforce plans, all in the news today.
Council spending rises on children in need of help
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News
- Wednesday, November 29, 2017 | CYP Now
Councils are spending 10 per cent more per head on children in need of support than they did in 2010, a government report has found.
Identifying Inequalities in Child Welfare Intervention Rates
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Research
- Tuesday, April 11, 2017 | CYP Now
Academics from the universities of Coventry, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Stirling and Queen's University Belfast received Nuffield Foundation funding to study inequalities in the proportions of looked-after children, or those subject to child protection plans, in the four UK nations.
Huge surge in instances of children going missing from foster care
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- Thursday, January 15, 2015 | CYP Now
More than 13,000 cases of children going missing from foster care were recorded last year, with more than 500 incidents linked to child sexual exploitation (CSE), latest figures show.
Ofsted tells two further authorities to improve children's services
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News
- Tuesday, February 3, 2015 | CYP Now
Two more English authorities have been told by Ofsted that their children's services are not up to scratch.
ADCS president O'Sullivan to champion Staying Put extension
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News
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 | CYP Now
The new president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has vowed to make the extension of support rights for children in residential care a key goal of her time in office.
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