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Inspectors praise council for maintaining 'good' children's services

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

| CYP Now

A council has been praised by inspectors for averting a decline in the performance of its children's services due to rising demand and budget cuts.

Council weaknesses 'leave children at risk', warns Ofsted

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Friday, May 18, 2018

| CYP Now

Children are being left at risk of harm due to failures in the way a council is responding to protection concerns, Ofsted has found.

What Works Centre seeks 'pioneer councils' to develop social care best practice

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

| CYP Now

A government-backed initiative to improve the quality of children's social care has said it wants to team up with "pioneer councils" to test new approaches and help ensure evidence of good work is being shared across the sector.

Rich parents 'use status to disrupt child protection probes'

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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

| CYP Now

Affluent parents suspected of child neglect are using their "status and privilege" to undermine investigations and the work of social workers, researchers have claimed.

Ofsted warns council over high child protection caseloads

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Monday, May 14, 2018

| CYP Now

High social worker caseloads are threatening to undermine efforts to support vulnerable teenagers in Stoke, according to Ofsted.

London council moves out of 'inadequate'

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

| CYP Now

Children's services at a London council are no longer judged to be "inadequate" following a fresh inspection of provision by Ofsted.

Major rise in number of children in 'out-of-area' residential care

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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

| CYP Now

The number of looked-after children placed in residential care outside of their local area has increased by nearly two thirds over the last five years, figures obtained from the government have shown.

Children's home providers criticise 'misleading' DfE data on missing incidents

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

| CYP Now

Children's home providers have accused government of publishing "misleading" and "potentially incendiary" data about the number of children who go missing from residential care.

Troubled council to launch children's services trust in 2019

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

| CYP Now

A struggling council that a government report recommended be scrapped and replaced with two new unitary authorities is pushing ahead with plans to establish children's services to an independent trust in 12 months' time.

Doubts over future of DfE's £20m social care research centre

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

| CYP Now

The future of a delayed initiative to improve the quality of children's social care is in doubt, as there is no guarantee of ongoing government funding, documents reveal.

Government reveals more than 50,000 children's home 'missing incidents'

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

| CYP Now

Young people living in children's homes in England have been reported missing more than 50,000 times in the last three years - with the missing rate for individual children currently averaging nearly five times a year, it has emerged.

Evidence and Impact: Child-centred responses to CSA

Best Practice

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

| CYP Now

The first of a series of articles about emerging safeguarding practice looks at how the NSPCC has developed a child-centred approach to support children and young people after sexual abuse.

DfE hands council £2.9m to establish children's services trust

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

| CYP Now

The government has agreed to hand a council a £2.9m grant towards the cost of setting up a trust to run its children's services, two years after it was rated "inadequate" by Ofsted.

Government denies welfare changes will exacerbate domestic abuse

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

| CYP Now

The government has rejected concerns from MPs that the move to paying benefits to a single recipient in the household rather than separately will exacerbate domestic abuse cases.

Care application levels plateau after years of rises

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Thursday, April 12, 2018

| CYP Now

The number of applications being made to the courts for children to be taken into care has fallen slightly following years of rises, according to data released by Cafcass.

Ofsted criticises 'unacceptable' screening visits by social workers

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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

| CYP Now

Ofsted has criticised a council for the "unacceptable" use of screening visits by social workers to families prior to making a referral decision.

Inspectors praise children's centre support at 'inadequate' council

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

| CYP Now

Effective use of children's centres to offer early support to vulnerable families is helping an "inadequate" council turn around its performance, Ofsted has found.

Children in care 'receiving less support', Ofsted finds

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Friday, April 6, 2018

| CYP Now

Children in care are receiving less support and do not feel as safe as in previous years, a study by Ofsted has found.

Children's services trust set to cost £4.6m

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

| CYP Now

The creation of an independent trust as part of efforts to improve children's services in Worcestershire will cost around £4.6m, it has emerged.

Ofsted praises multi-agency child protection work at two councils

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

| CYP Now

Multi-agency work to address child protection concerns at two London boroughs have been praised by inspectors.

Four in 10 councils 'unwilling to take child refugees from other areas'

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| CYP Now

Around 40 per cent of councils across England have not signed up to a voluntary scheme to take child refugees from other areas, amid concerns that central government is not providing enough funding to cover the true cost, a report has revealed.

Government to trial upfront Troubled Families payments

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Some councils will receive upfront funding to pay for support provided through the government's Troubled Families programme as part of a trial, it has been announced.

Children of seriously ill parents 'invisible' to services

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Children whose parents or carers are seriously ill are an "invisible group" suffering with mental health problems and a lack of support, researchers have claimed.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Rising demand for children's services and increasing expectations of what they should deliver - while coming at a time when resources are shrinking - has created a necessity among local authorities to find new ways of reaching more people at less cost.

Sharing personal information in the child protection context: Impediments in the Australian legal framework

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

| CYP Now

This summary draws on research presented in a paper that examines the legal framework that governs information sharing in Australia. To make these findings more applicable to the UK context, the summary also highlights key messages on information sharing from the triennial analysis of serious case reviews 2011-2014.

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Inspectors praise council for maintaining 'good' children's services

Council weaknesses 'leave children at risk', warns Ofsted

What Works Centre seeks 'pioneer councils' to develop social care best practice

Rich parents 'use status to disrupt child protection probes'

Ofsted warns council over high child protection caseloads

London council moves out of 'inadequate'

Major rise in number of children in 'out-of-area' residential care

Children's home providers criticise 'misleading' DfE data on missing incidents

Troubled council to launch children's services trust in 2019

Doubts over future of DfE's £20m social care research centre

Government reveals more than 50,000 children's home 'missing incidents'

Evidence and Impact: Child-centred responses to CSA

DfE hands council £2.9m to establish children's services trust

Government denies welfare changes will exacerbate domestic abuse

Care application levels plateau after years of rises

Ofsted criticises 'unacceptable' screening visits by social workers

Inspectors praise children's centre support at 'inadequate' council

Children in care 'receiving less support', Ofsted finds

Children's services trust set to cost £4.6m

Ofsted praises multi-agency child protection work at two councils

Four in 10 councils 'unwilling to take child refugees from other areas'

Government to trial upfront Troubled Families payments

Children of seriously ill parents 'invisible' to services

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

Sharing personal information in the child protection context: Impediments in the Australian legal framework

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