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Inspections Clinic: Registering homes and managers

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Changes by Ofsted will give residential care providers more flexibility in how they register children’s homes and managers, but a campaigner tells Jo Stephenson it could undermine the quality of care.

The reports and investigations set to shape direction of Care Review

Features

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Experts highlight the review of residential care, social work practice ‘blueprint’ and investigation into children’s care market as key pieces of work that could influence what issues the review of children’s social care covers.

Post-16 framework provides pointers for national scheme

Features

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

| CYP Now

Hertfordshire's care commissioners for looked-after children are at the forefront of work to boost quality assurance at unregulated settings used for children aged 16 and 17.

South East pilot gives care providers equal stake in developing placement contracts

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| CYP Now

Pilot project attempts to give care providers an equal say with councils in drawing up plans for care placements.

Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 4

Research

Thursday, May 28, 2020

| CYP Now

OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for children and families. We develop evidence-based solutions for local authorities, residential and foster care providers using ethical and scientifically robust approaches

Residential Care: Policy context

Features

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

| CYP Now

Covid-19 has presented an unprecedented set of challenges for children’s social care services, and this is particularly so for residential child care.

Commissioning: Implications of divergence

Features

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

| CYP Now

The fragmentation of council commissioning arrangements is changing how care packages are purchased, explains Andrew Rome.

Commissioning: Social care placements

Features

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

It is time for councils to create a level playing field between in-house and independent care placements, says Marie Tucker.

Between Love and Behaviour Management: the Psychodynamic Reflective Milieu at the Mulberry Bush School

Research

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| CYP Now

A study on the Mulberry Bush School conveys direct work and also the creation of the “staff therapeutic milieu” that supports the group living and group learning through which therapy principally occurs.

Innovation for children in care

Best Practice

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

| CYP Now

Amid the multitude of challenges in working with children in care, a huge amount of innovation is taking place across the country. Charlotte Goddard examines three examples of excellent practice.