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Council offers £15,000 mortgage deposit to attract children's social workers

Friday, April 29, 2016

| CYP Now

A council has unveiled plans to stump up money to help children's social workers to buy a home as part of efforts to boost recruitment.

One small step for care, one giant leap required

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Monday, April 29, 2013

| CYP Now

The high-profile cases of children in residential care going missing and being sexually exploited in the past year have sent shockwaves through our society. Last week, the government responded by announcing some important reforms.

Call for social workers to have greater role in early intervention

News

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Social workers should be routinely involved in early intervention work that goes beyond their legal responsibilities, the College of Social Work has said.

Independent reviewing officers are not challenging enough, says Ofsted

News

Friday, June 7, 2013

| CYP Now

Officers employed by local authorities to review care plans are failing to make enough of a difference for looked-after children, a damning report has found.

Daily roundup: safeguarding procedures, child medicines, and children's happiness

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Study highlights need for professionals to be able to spot signs of abuse; call to ban E numbers from children's medicines; and MP says society is too focused on making children happy, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Benefit cap, DCS appointment, and looked-after children

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Friday, December 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Struggling families set to be hit by benefit cap, say poverty campaigners; new director of children's services in Leicestershire; and improvements to the care system in Scotland are too slow, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Care homes, healthy eating and safeguarding

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Fears raised over impact of closing care homes in Devon; 70 per cent of children eat too much salt, study finds; and council criticised over failure to look into teenager's abuse claims, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Asylum seekers, teaching workforce, and child exploitation

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's commissioner reveals plight of unaccompanied asylum seekers; teacher numbers on the rise; and Barnardo's to raise awareness of child exploitation in the North East, all in the news today.

Campaigners call for end to B&B use for care leavers

News

Friday, May 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities should be banned from using bed and breakfasts to house young care leavers, while post-care accommodation should be regulated by Ofsted, MPs have been told.

Child protection cases closed without review as Ofsted rates Birmingham services 'inadequate'

News

Friday, May 23, 2014

| CYP Now

A damning Ofsted inspection of Birmingham children's services has found the council closed hundreds of child protection cases without an assessment due to a "lack of social workers".

Daily roundup: School admissions code, extremism, and jobseeker's allowance

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Attempts to help disadvantaged children get into best schools; report on 'Trojan Horse' plot published; and review backs jobseeker's allowance sanction system, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Youth volunteers, social work, and safety campaign

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

| CYP Now

Initiative to highlight examples of youth volunteering; social worker suspended for falsifying records; and parents warn of the dangers of water to children, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Charity chief, care system, and mosque vandalism

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Andy Elvin appointed new chief executive of Tact; NSPCC study reveals cost of children returning home from care; and mosque vandalised in wake of child sexual exploitation scandal, all in the news today.

NSPCC demands clearer rules to protect children who return home from care

News

Monday, April 30, 2012

| CYP Now

The NSPCC is calling on the government to publish guidance on returning children in care home, saying that currently hundreds of children are likely to experience further abuse and neglect.

Daily roundup: Birmingham cuts, school libraries facing closure and armed forces to work with pupils

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Friday, December 7, 2012

| CYP Now

Cuts of £23m earmarked for children's services in Birmingham, one in five school libraries facing closure, and troops recruited to improve pupil discipline, all in today's news roundup.

Children in care denied help with mental health problems

News

Thursday, April 28, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils and specialist services are failing to support children in care who have mental health problems, a probe by MPs has found.

Study backs Staying Put in children's homes at cost of £76m a year

News

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Allowing young people to stay in residential care to the age of 21 will cost around £76m a year, a government-commissioned scoping study has found.

Shared Services: Special Report

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Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local authorities to find a wider range of care options for vulnerable children and introduce a greater array of good practice approaches to improve outcomes.

Large rise in number of children seeking support for CSE

News

Friday, May 29, 2015

| CYP Now

Numbers of children seeking help from Barnardo's in relation to child sexual exploitation (CSE) has risen by 50 per cent in the space of a year, it has emerged.

Senior Ofsted figure quits

News

Friday, June 26, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's interim head of social care is leaving her post to become a director of children's services, it has been announced.

Care applications continue to soar

News

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Numbers of court applications being made for children to be taken into care are continuing to soar, with latest figures showing a 14 per cent increase compared with last year.

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

The Prime Minister highlighted children's social care as ripe for reform in a speech this month, with failing services handed to trusts or other providers to run. Children's services experts give their views on what this means for the years ahead

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

News

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Police forces should only attend children's homes to tackle extreme incidents of young people's behaviour, the country's top police officer for children's issues has said.

Ofsted warns children's services departments of ‘inadequate' factors

News

Friday, November 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted has taken steps to warn children's services departments of common weaknesses they must address to avoid being rated "inadequate" when they are visited by inspectors.

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.

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Council offers £15,000 mortgage deposit to attract children's social workers

One small step for care, one giant leap required

Call for social workers to have greater role in early intervention

Independent reviewing officers are not challenging enough, says Ofsted

Daily roundup: safeguarding procedures, child medicines, and children's happiness

Daily roundup: Benefit cap, DCS appointment, and looked-after children

Daily roundup: Care homes, healthy eating and safeguarding

Daily roundup: Asylum seekers, teaching workforce, and child exploitation

Campaigners call for end to B&B use for care leavers

Child protection cases closed without review as Ofsted rates Birmingham services 'inadequate'

Daily roundup: School admissions code, extremism, and jobseeker's allowance

Daily roundup: Youth volunteers, social work, and safety campaign

Daily roundup: Charity chief, care system, and mosque vandalism

NSPCC demands clearer rules to protect children who return home from care

Daily roundup: Birmingham cuts, school libraries facing closure and armed forces to work with pupils

Children in care denied help with mental health problems

Study backs Staying Put in children's homes at cost of £76m a year

Shared Services: Special Report

Large rise in number of children seeking support for CSE

Senior Ofsted figure quits

Care applications continue to soar

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

Ofsted warns children's services departments of ‘inadequate' factors

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

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