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Sandwell starts to tackle service problems after private partner deal
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
Simon White, the privately-employed DCS at Sandwell Council, says other struggling authorities may follow their lead by partnering with an outside agency to run children's services
Councils spell out impact of further cuts for children in 2015/16
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
The Local Government Association's submission to the forthcoming spending review pulls no punches in outlining the devastating impact further cuts to budgets would have on children's services
Controlled trials gain momentum
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
Randomised controlled trials are becoming increasingly used to test the effectiveness of children's services
Child safeguarding: leaders' debate
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
Children's services leaders from councils across England discussed the current challenges of safeguarding children at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with 4Children. Ravi Chandiramani reports
Troubled families initiative misses first-year target
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2013 | CYP Now
Councils have missed a first-year target for the number of families they worked with under the government's flagship troubled families initiative.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Wales
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- Monday, May 13, 2013 | CYP Now
Edited By Jane Williams;
University of Wales Press;
ISBN: 978-0708325629;
£34.99;
240 pages
Social media will let tomorrow's leaders bridge north-south divide
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- Monday, May 13, 2013 | CYP Now
This month, shuttling between the north-east and the south-east of England, I have been struck by some of the massive variations in the experiences of children and young people in different parts of the country, and how this impacts upon national debates about future policy. It has made me more conscious too of a widening divide between young and old in these debates.
How mediation resolves family conflict
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- Monday, April 29, 2013 | CYP Now
Young people are being helped to mend relationships with their families to prevent them becoming homeless
Participation in Action: Young people find their voice to take control of life in care
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- Monday, April 29, 2013 | CYP Now
Children in care can feel that they have little influence over important decisions affecting their lives. In 2005 the London Borough of Southwark decided to address this through a programme that gave looked-after children and care leavers a say.
Restore some perspective to national picture of childhood
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- Monday, April 29, 2013 | CYP Now
The National Children's Bureau celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. To mark the beginning of our anniversary year, we worked with the V&A Museum of Childhood to host a debate looking at how childhood has changed over the past 50 years.
CYP Now 2013 Awards open for entry
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- Monday, April 15, 2013 | CYP Now
The 2013 Children & Young People Now Awards - the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK - are open for entries.
The awards that really matter
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- Monday, April 15, 2013 | CYP Now
The Children & Young People Now Awards represent the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK. They recognise the most innovative and effective work in transforming young lives and building a better society. Too much of this work goes unnoticed and unappreciated - these awards set to put that right and spread good practice.
Working Together to Safeguard Children: key revisions explained
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- Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | CYP Now
It has been two years in the making, but the revised Working Together guidance has finally been published. The new, streamlined version contains crucial information for all those with a role in safeguarding children
Daily roundup: Child protection, 'avoidable deaths', and violent extremism
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- Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | CYP Now
Doncaster child protection faces review, UK comes bottom of EU league for avoidable child deaths, and anti-extremism programme helps 500 young people, all in the news today.
Remit of children's chiefs expands as Webb takes on ADCS presidency
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- Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | CYP Now
Andrew Webb, the first president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services not to have the word "children" in his title, tells CYP Now his policy priorities for the year ahead and his views on an evolving role
Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families
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- Friday, March 15, 2013 | CYP Now
Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Bedroom tax concession, sexual abuse and child trafficking
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- Tuesday, March 12, 2013 | CYP Now
Severely disabled children exempted from bedroom tax, Barnardo's to study girls who commit sexual abuse, and calls for the government to protect victims of trafficking, all in the news today.
Children and Families Bill must heed children's views
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- Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | CYP Now
The Children and Families Bill, which began its second reading in parliament last week, focuses in large part on the most vulnerable children in society.
Third of professionals work with children who 'go hungry' daily
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- Monday, February 25, 2013 | CYP Now
A third of children's services professionals say the young people they work with are failing to get enough to eat on a daily basis, according to a survey conducted by the Children's Food Trust.
Legal Update: The Children and Families Bill
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
The Children and Families Bill includes a number of proposed reforms to existing legislation. Christopher Sykes, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the principal changes
A fresh workforce strategy is vital
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
The ability to make a difference to children's lives is critically affected by the quality and training of the professionals and practitioners who work with them.
Mutual benefits
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
Public sector employees are being encouraged to take control of the services they provide and run them as mutuals. Joe Lepper looks at the experiences of those pioneering the approach in children's services
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