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How music therapy supports children in therapeutic settings

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  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Music therapy is one of the innovative interventions central to the Coram Creative Therapies and Parenting Service. It supports a range of children and young people, particularly when they might not be able to engage in talking therapies and a more creative, strengths-based approach is needed.

Children's Homes Research

The concerns of London local authorities in meeting sufficiency duties described in the first study and the severity of this in relation to residential children's homes, are recognised as a theme across the country. This study was commissioned by the LGA to look at the policies, barriers, and facilitators for local authorities and smaller independent providers in establishing children's homes.

Making a house into a home

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
    • | CYP Now
The National House Project works with councils to support young people in care to move into their own homes. Jo Stephenson spoke to staff and participants to find out how it works and the difference it makes.

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

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  • Friday, January 15, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been criticised for denigrating foster care with comments she made as the government launched a bid to reverse a sharp drop in adoptions.

Cross-Regional Project

Seven-year contract between residential child care provider Keys Group and six neighbouring authorities to provide therapeutic residential care and education for 11- to 18-year-olds with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties

Wider factors influencing the closure of children's homes

There is a sufficiency crisis for looked-after children in residential and foster care. In the case of residential sufficiency, the crisis has now become more acute with the reported planned closure of a significant number of homes operated by Outcomes First Group (see "Guide to OFG" below).

Residential Care Special Report 2023

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2023
    • | CYP Now
A new government policy paper puts forward plans to change the way residential care placements are commissioned but the measures fall short of solving a shortage of children’s homes places, say experts.

Private homes shun restorative justice

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  • Monday, February 21, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Vulnerable children are being unnecessarily criminalised because of a reluctance to deploy restorative justice techniques in private children's homes, a report has warned.

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