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CYP Now Children in Care Supplement 2014

Friday, May 30, 2014

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Policy and practice: How to support looked-after children to lead healthy, fulfilling lives, and implement recent policy reforms.

Daily roundup: Blindness, child arrests and missing children

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

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Growing numbers of children suffering blindness; drop in number of children being arrested; and three children in care go missing every day in Merseyside, all in the news today.

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

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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".

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

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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.

Timpson strips Slough of responsibility for children's services

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

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Children's services are to be delivered outside of council control in Slough as part of government efforts to improve performance.

Daily roundup: Care proceedings, teacher training, and physical education

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

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Social workers to get help understanding care proceedings legislation; teacher training on SEN insufficient; and most pupils "not bothered" by loss of competitive school sport, all in the news today.

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils will be handed powers to outsource a whole range of children's social care services including child protection under proposals announced by the government.

Legal Update: Care of unaccompanied children

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Monday, April 14, 2014

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Draft proposals on the care of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and trafficked children are a welcome step but could go further, argues Rachel Hutchings, researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

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

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

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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.

Ofsted highlights lack of support for children placed out of area

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Not enough is being done by local authorities to support children who are placed in care far away from home, Ofsted has warned.

Birmingham to get children's commissioner under Le Grand plans

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The government is to draft in a commissioner and expert panel to oversee Birmingham's troubled children's services.

Ofsted delays revised children's home inspections

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted has delayed by a year the introduction of new children's home inspections because of concerns they would be "inefficient".

Children and Families Act: Role of children's commissioner strengthened

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Friday, March 14, 2014

| CYP Now

Children and young people's rights will be better protected as a result of changes brought about through the Children and Families Act, the children's commissioner for England has said.

MPs call for end to out-of-area children's home placements

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

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Young people should not be placed in children's homes outside of their local area, a group of MPs has said.

Daily roundup: Care homes, healthy eating and safeguarding

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

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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.

One in seven children's social worker posts unfilled

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Friday, March 7, 2014

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More than 3,800 children's social workers are needed to fill vacancies across local authorities in England, figures published by the government have shown.

Daily roundup: Residential care, child abuse and education support

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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Barnardo's backs staying put till 21 for all children in care; government adviser arrested over child abuse concerns; and Ofsted slams Suffolk over school improvement, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Obesity, child protection and mental health

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Friday, February 28, 2014

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Morbidly obese children taken into care; Northamptonshire struggles with unnecessary safeguarding referrals; and bullying is main cause of self-harm study finds, all in the news today.

Ofsted faces criticism over botched inspection

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted's controversial new framework for rating child protection and care services has been criticised after one of the first inspections was found to be "seriously flawed".

Sheffield children's services ‘requires improvement'

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Monday, February 24, 2014

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Sheffield has been told to improve its children's services after an inspection highlighted weaknesses in performance on looked-after children and adoption.

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