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Safeguarding pressures research reveals 'complex, urgent' issues
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Analysis
- Tuesday, December 6, 2016 | CYP Now
ADCS survey identifies factors driving up demand on the child protection system and charts changes in how councils are responding to the pressures. Experts outline how the system can adapt to cope better.
Daily roundup: Looked-after children, ADHD drugs, and food banks
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Other
- Tuesday, August 13, 2013 | CYP Now
Social workers want the College of Social Work to focus on looked-after children; ADHD drug prescribing rises 50 per cent in five years; and free food is offered to poor families in Birmingham, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Unemployment, digital footprints and sexual exploitation
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Other
- Thursday, August 29, 2013 | CYP Now
Fewer children in jobless households, a call for internet guidance for parents, and five arrested by police investigating the alleged rape of 15-year-old, all in the news today.
£19m fund to help adopted children access therapy
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News
- Wednesday, September 11, 2013 | CYP Now
Adoptive parents will be able to access a fund worth £19.3m to get help such as therapy for children who may have been abused or neglected, the government has announced.
Daily roundup: 'Severe hardship' for Scottish families, parenting, and child benefit cuts
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Other
- Monday, October 22, 2012 | CYP Now
Thousands of Scottish families face multiple disadvantage, children say they want more time with parents, and a warning over impending child benefit cuts, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Child benefit cuts, heart surgery in Bristol, and a ban on two 'legal highs'
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Other
- Thursday, November 1, 2012 | CYP Now
Report says child benefit changes will cost some families £50,000, warning over child heart operations at "inadequately staffed" hospital, and the government outlaws two more "legal highs", all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Academy U-turn, female genital mutilation, and Teach First to expand
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Other
- Monday, November 26, 2012 | CYP Now
Primary governors at a London school reverse their decision to convert to academy status, a 10-point action plan on female genital mutilation prosecutions is launched, and government proposals to expand Teach First, all in the news today.
Tax evasion crackdown 'threatens early intervention'
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News
- Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | CYP Now
Attempts to fund early intervention work through social finance would be compromised by a government bid to crack down on tax evasion through charitable donations, it has been claimed.
'Terrifying' welfare reforms will drive up care referrals, warns Munro
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News
- Friday, July 6, 2012 | CYP Now
The architect of the government's child protection reforms has warned that changes to welfare policy could inadvertently increase the number of children being referred to social care services.
Daily roundup: Health "timebomb" for Neets, council loses data, and school starting age demo
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Other
- Wednesday, October 30, 2013 | CYP Now
Health risks for Neets highlighted, council fined for losing children's data, and Too Much Too Soon campaign reaches parliament, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: School sports, exam results and the riots one year on
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Other
- Monday, August 6, 2012 | CYP Now
School sports provision labelled "patchy" by minister, London pupils top exam results, and a film to mark the riots anniversary, all make the headlines today.
Innovation projects 'struggle to address social worker recruitment problems'
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News
- Wednesday, November 15, 2017 | CYP Now
Projects funded by the Department for Education to test new ways of working in children's social care are struggling to address issues with social worker recruitment and retention, research has found.
Paul Ennals to chair Haringey child safeguarding board
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News
- Wednesday, April 16, 2014 | CYP Now
Former National Children's Bureau chief executive Sir Paul Ennals has been appointed as chair of Haringey's Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB).
Domestic violence project to focus on children's needs
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News
- Tuesday, April 29, 2014 | CYP Now
More than 700 children who have been affected by domestic violence are to benefit from help and support as part of a £470,000 project being delivered by charity Buttle UK.
Daily roundup: Child support, missing children and outsourcing
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Other
- Wednesday, May 21, 2014 | CYP Now
Changes to child maintenance system; new national missing children's campaign launches; and children's services chief enters outsourcing debate, all in the news today.
Children's directors rally against profit-making in child protection
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News
- Thursday, June 5, 2014 | CYP Now
Child protection services should not be outsourced to organisations intending to make a profit, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.
Daily roundup: Haringey Ofsted, early intervention guidebook, and term-time holidays
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Other
- Monday, July 21, 2014 | CYP Now
Haringey told to improve children's social care, major early intervention guide launched, and Nicky Morgan pledges to continue tough stance on term-time holidays, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Bullying, child abuse and domestic violence
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Other
- Thursday, August 28, 2014 | CYP Now
Study highlights long-term impact of bullying; adults concerned about false accusations when reporting child abuse; and thousands of domestic violence referrals made in Scotland, all in the news today.
Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating
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News
- Thursday, September 4, 2014 | CYP Now
Nearly 500 children in Manchester were potentially left at risk because social work assessments were not carried out quickly enough, a report that has rated the city's children's services as "inadequate", has found.
Slough children's services to become independent trust
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News
- Wednesday, October 8, 2014 | CYP Now
Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.
Courts deliver blow to government adoption drive
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News
- Tuesday, November 4, 2014 | CYP Now
The government's push on adoptions is facing a setback after it was claimed rises in the number of children being adopted will stall due to courts granting fewer adoption orders.
Partners of abusers to be given support to protect children
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News
- Monday, February 16, 2015 | CYP Now
A support service for women whose partners have sexually abused a child is being launched by the NSPCC.
Concern as Ofsted ceases regulation of outsourced social work
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News
- Friday, May 29, 2015 | CYP Now
The children's sector has criticised the government's continuing drive to outsource children's social care after Ofsted this week ceased regulation of third-party providers.
BASW to take on College of Social Work functions
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News
- Thursday, August 20, 2015 | CYP Now
The British Association of Social Work (BASW) is to take on the majority of functions performed by The College of Social Work (TCSW) from next month, it has been announced.
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