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Housing and support gap faced by vulnerable 16- and 17-year-olds without care status

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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Local authorities have a duty to provide accommodation for children unable to live with family, but not all get the support they need, says Scarlett Cowling, 16+ specialist advocate at Coram Voice’s Always Heard service.

Letters to the Editor: Room for improvement in youth work curriculum

Opinion

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

| CYP Now

Separation under interim care orders

Other

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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Case highlights need to balance welfare considerations, says Rosalyn Akar Grams, head of legal practice at Coram Children’s Legal Centre.

Immigration status and Brexit

Analysis

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

Expert says councils must take measures to ensure children in care have leave to remain from 2021.

Interview: Helen Johnson – Refugee Council’s head of children’s services

Features

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes speaks to the Refugee Council’s head of children’s services on post-Brexit support for unaccompanied children.

Sibling relationships in the care system

Features

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

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Children’s services and courts face serious challenges when making care plans or permanence orders for siblings, writes Dr John Simmonds, director of policy, research and development at CoramBAAF.

Podcast documents young person’s fight to clarify immigration status

Best Practice

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Rights-based charity helped a young person it was supporting to produce a podcast about his fight to remain in the UK and resolve his immigration status.

Educational psychologists demand UK-wide smacking ban

News

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

| CYP Now

Smacking is harmful to children's mental health and a UK-wide ban should be introduced, the organisation representing educational psychologists, has said.

Zahawi: Controversial legal guidance 'helps councils target child protection'

News

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

| CYP Now

Children's minister Nadhim Zahawi has rejected claims that a controversial "myth buster" document issued by the Department for Education encourages councils to renege on statutory child protection obligations, arguing that it simply supports councils to focus on helping the most vulnerable families.

DCS turnover: beneath the data

Analysis

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

| CYP Now

High turnover in children's services directors in the past year masks signs of increased stability.

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

News

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.

Timpson takes up children's commissioner advisory role

News

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

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Former Department for Education minister Edward Timpson has been appointed to advise children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield and could be in line for a future government role, it has emerged.

How to improve care, by those who have lived it

Features

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

| CYP Now

Those who have been in care are uniquely placed to identify how well services for looked-after children are working. Here five care leavers share their experiences and set out what needs to change.

Schools 'failing young carers', claims Barnardo's

News

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

| CYP Now

Children's charity Barnardo's has claimed schools are failing young people who care for sick or disabled family members.

Asylum-seeking children funding rates set for review

News

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

| CYP Now

The amount of money councils receive from central government to cover the cost of looking after unaccompanied asylum-seeking children will be reviewed, it has been announced.

Longfield: Child vulnerability data is 'tip of the iceberg'

News

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

| CYP Now

The government does not know how many children are vulnerable and agencies cannot agree on how to define and identify them, children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield has warned.

Concerns raised over welfare of undocumented children

News

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

| CYP Now

Concerns have been raised about the welfare of tens of thousands of children and young people whose legal right to remain in the UK is uncertain.

Munby advises judges to limit involvement in serious case reviews

News

Thursday, May 4, 2017

| CYP Now

Judges should avoid taking part in official probes into child deaths in order to maintain the independence of the judiciary, England's most senior family court judge has said.

Children and Social Work Bill receives Royal Assent

News

Friday, April 28, 2017

| CYP Now

A raft of new measures designed to boost support for children and young people will become law after the Children and Social Work Bill received Royal Assent.

European human rights body calls for urgent action on youth custody safety

News

Thursday, April 20, 2017

| CYP Now

The Council of Europe has called on the British government to take urgent action to improve the safety of young people held in custody.

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Housing and support gap faced by vulnerable 16- and 17-year-olds without care status

Letters to the Editor: Room for improvement in youth work curriculum

Separation under interim care orders

Immigration status and Brexit

Interview: Helen Johnson – Refugee Council’s head of children’s services

Sibling relationships in the care system

Podcast documents young person’s fight to clarify immigration status

Educational psychologists demand UK-wide smacking ban

Zahawi: Controversial legal guidance 'helps councils target child protection'

DCS turnover: beneath the data

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

Timpson takes up children's commissioner advisory role

How to improve care, by those who have lived it

Schools 'failing young carers', claims Barnardo's

Asylum-seeking children funding rates set for review

Longfield: Child vulnerability data is 'tip of the iceberg'

Concerns raised over welfare of undocumented children

Munby advises judges to limit involvement in serious case reviews

Children and Social Work Bill receives Royal Assent

European human rights body calls for urgent action on youth custody safety

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