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Children in residential care must be listened to, MPs told

Friday, November 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Proposed government reforms of the residential care system do not focus enough on listening to children, a group of MPs has been told.

Daily roundup: Visual impairments, Youth Audit and education support

Other

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Guidelines launched to improve commissioning of child eye health services; council undergoes first Youth Audit; and plans to raise education support for disabled young people to 25 gains backing, all in the news today.

Children's home risk assessment plans delayed

News

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

| CYP Now

Plans to risk assess proposed new children's homes to make sure young people are safe from criminals and abusers have been delayed, after concerns were raised about how it will work.

Daily roundup: Residential care, child abuse and education support

Other

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

| CYP Now

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: Care proceedings, teacher training, and physical education

Other

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

| CYP Now

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.

Extend Staying Put rights to children's homes, say MPs

News

Thursday, July 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Staying Put legislation should be extended into children's homes as part of sweeping changes needed to improve post-16 support for looked-after young people, MPs have said.

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

News

Friday, August 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has announced how much each council will receive this year to extend support up to age 21 for young people in foster care, but concerns remain that the money is not enough.

Ofsted gives councils 12-month deadline on adoptions

News

Friday, February 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Local authorities will fail to secure an "outstanding" rating from Ofsted unless they place all children identified for adoption within 12 months.

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

News

Thursday, October 13, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's services chiefs are being called upon to share information about how their departments can deliver effective services while managing challenging budgets.

Intervention projects help to cut care figures, DfE research suggests

News

Friday, October 21, 2011

| CYP Now

Areas with established family intervention projects are seeing fewer children taken into care, emerging research by the Department for Education (DfE) has suggested.

Putting the child at the centre of inter-professional co-operation in out-of-home care

Research

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

| CYP Now

This paper explores theoretical understandings of child centeredness in inter-professional working.

Special Report: Residential Child Care

Features

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

| CYP Now

Lauded for the essential role it plays in the lives of vulnerable young people, the residential child care sector faces increasing financial challenges if it is to continue to deliver quality therapeutic provision.

Derbyshire social pedagogy

Best Practice

Thursday, June 29, 2017

| CYP Now

Residential care practitioners use social pedagogy to provide support in much the same way as a birth parent would.

The Mulberry Bush School

Best Practice

Thursday, June 29, 2017

| CYP Now

Residential school that caters for troubled children has introduced methods that focus on helping children express their feelings and come to terms with past trauma.

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

News

Thursday, November 20, 2014

| CYP Now

More needs to be done to keep children in care out of the criminal justice system, the country's top police officer for children and young people has said.

Research Report: A Census of the Children's Homes Workforce

Other

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Doncaster sees four-fold decrease in children missing from care

News

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of looked-after children that go missing from care in Doncaster has fallen nearly four-fold over the past year following the introduction of a dedicated support worker.

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

News

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has been handed new responsibilities for boosting the ‘character and resilience' of young people and tackling bullying, the Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed.

Inspectors slam South Yorkshire Police over safeguarding failures

News

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The police force criticised last year over its handling of child sexual exploitation (CSE) allegations in Rotherham is not doing enough to improve its child protection procedures, a report has found.

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

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

News

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating

News

Monday, November 9, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has been given more time to turn services around in the wake of Ofsted judging its children's services department ‘inadequate' twice in two years.

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

News

Monday, November 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Police must be given greater discretion when dealing with children who share explicit pictures of themselves so that their future life chances are not harmed, a group of MPs and peers has said.

Young people set out recommendations for Care Review

News

Monday, November 1, 2021

| CYP Now

Young people with experience of the care system have issued a checklist of issues they want to be addressed by the Care Review.

Young people help shape low-energy children’s homes

Best Practice

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

| CYP Now

More than five years ago work started on a £7m project to build six new children’s homes in Hampshire using the latest in energy efficient technology.

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Children in residential care must be listened to, MPs told

Daily roundup: Visual impairments, Youth Audit and education support

Children's home risk assessment plans delayed

Daily roundup: Residential care, child abuse and education support

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

Extend Staying Put rights to children's homes, say MPs

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

Ofsted gives councils 12-month deadline on adoptions

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Intervention projects help to cut care figures, DfE research suggests

Putting the child at the centre of inter-professional co-operation in out-of-home care

Special Report: Residential Child Care

Derbyshire social pedagogy

The Mulberry Bush School

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

Research Report: A Census of the Children's Homes Workforce

Doncaster sees four-fold decrease in children missing from care

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

Inspectors slam South Yorkshire Police over safeguarding failures

Timescales hinder SEN reforms

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

Young people set out recommendations for Care Review

Young people help shape low-energy children’s homes

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