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DfE hands care leaver project £3.7m innovation funding

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  • Friday, April 7, 2017
  • | CYP Now
A pioneering housing project where care leavers are involved with refurbishing empty properties that they then move into has been handed £3.7m in innovation funding from the Department for Education to expand it into five new areas.

ADCS president speaks out in favour of 'exemption clause'

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  • Tuesday, February 14, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Government plans to allow councils to apply for exemptions from children's social care legislation will help councils to better support young people, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services has said.

Eileen Munro 'deserts' controversial exemption clause

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  • Friday, February 10, 2017
  • | CYP Now
A social work academic cited as one of the inspirations for controversial government plans to allow councils to apply for exemptions from children's social care legislation has spoken out against the proposals, describing them as potentially dangerous.

The Social Care Academy

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  • Tuesday, January 31, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Vacancy rates and staff turnover have plummeted in Essex since the opening of its children's social work training academy. Charlotte Goddard asks those behind the initiative how it has been achieved.

Birmingham children's trust to launch April 2018

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  • Monday, January 16, 2017
  • | CYP Now
A new independent trust to run children's services in Birmingham will officially launch in April 2018, with the organisation taking the form of a company owned by the council, rather than an employee-owned mutual, it has emerged.

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