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Intervention projects help to cut care figures, DfE research suggests

Friday, October 21, 2011

| CYP Now

Areas with established family intervention projects are seeing fewer children taken into care, emerging research by the Department for Education (DfE) has suggested.

Councils get to grips with payment-by-results for troubled families

Other

Monday, April 16, 2012

| CYP Now

The government has revealed plans to pay councils for improving school attendance, reducing antisocial behaviour and getting parents into work, in its bid to transform the lives of 120,000 of the most troubled families in England

Leeds City Council

Best Practice

Thursday, May 4, 2017

| CYP Now

Restorative practice crucial to Leeds children's services' journey from Ofsted "inadequate" to best practice status.

Special Report: Social Work With Children and Families

Features

Thursday, May 4, 2017

| CYP Now

Social workers are among the most important people in the lives of vulnerable children, so a number of initiatives are aimed at re-energising a profession dogged by high caseloads and recruitment difficulties.

Job title: Parenting worker

Other

Monday, June 25, 2012

| CYP Now

The title parenting worker can cover a range of different roles and remits, finds Charlotte Goddard

DfE-funded care initiative 'provides low-cost support for vulnerable families'

News

Friday, July 14, 2017

| CYP Now

A government-funded social care initiative originally developed in Chicago has the potential to support vulnerable families in the UK at low cost and reduce the number of children coming into care, an evaluation report has found.

Benefit cuts to be challenged in High Court

News

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

| CYP Now

A High Court judge is set to rule on the legality of controversial housing benefit cuts after a child poverty charity launched a legal challenge.

Family support initiative improves children's behaviour, finds study

News

Monday, December 8, 2014

| CYP Now

A £26m Big Lottery Fund support programme for troubled families is helping to improve parenting skills and reduce child behaviour problems, latest analysis shows.

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

News

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Government changes to tax and benefits have hit families with young children and poorer households the hardest, a major study has found.

Good Idea: School support service helps cut vulnerable pupil absence

Best Practice

Monday, April 13, 2015

| CYP Now

School-Home Support works in partnership with schools to improve the attainment of vulnerable children by engaging with families and communities, and dealing with the root cause of poor attendance and behaviour.

Legal Update: Support for special guardians

Other

Monday, April 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Coram Children's Legal Centre's Child Law Advice Service (CLAS) is receiving an increasing number of queries about special guardianship. Kelly Reeve, team leader of CLAS, examines this trend.

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

News

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has been handed new responsibilities for boosting the ‘character and resilience' of young people and tackling bullying, the Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed.

Prime Minister creates taskforces to drive childcare and troubled families reforms

News

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Efforts to increase provision of free childcare and expand the troubled families initiative will be monitored by new taskforces, the government has announced.

Troubled Families: how effective has it been?

Other

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

| CYP Now

A government taskforce is to review the Troubled Families programme, but questions remain over its effectiveness, says a leading academic.

Behind the Inspection Rating: Structure change drives progress

Best Practice

Monday, September 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Kingston upon Thames Council - children's services inspection - May 2015

Timescales hinder SEN reforms

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Councils struggle to provide education, health and care plans within the required deadlines, say campaigners

Review set to reveal Gove plans

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth justice experts say education of young offenders must not dominate the review of the system

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

News

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating

News

Monday, November 9, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has been given more time to turn services around in the wake of Ofsted judging its children's services department ‘inadequate' twice in two years.

Grieving children need support to help avoid long-term challenges

Other

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

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Intervention projects help to cut care figures, DfE research suggests

Councils get to grips with payment-by-results for troubled families

Leeds City Council

Special Report: Social Work With Children and Families

Job title: Parenting worker

DfE-funded care initiative 'provides low-cost support for vulnerable families'

Benefit cuts to be challenged in High Court

Family support initiative improves children's behaviour, finds study

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

Good Idea: School support service helps cut vulnerable pupil absence

Legal Update: Support for special guardians

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

Prime Minister creates taskforces to drive childcare and troubled families reforms

Troubled Families: how effective has it been?

Behind the Inspection Rating: Structure change drives progress

Timescales hinder SEN reforms

Review set to reveal Gove plans

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating

Grieving children need support to help avoid long-term challenges

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