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Early Help: Special Report

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

| CYP Now

Amid rising knife crime, youth homelessness and care referrals, the case for spending on early help has never been so important, yet investment in prevention services has been falling, fuelling late interventions.

Chancellor announces one-year budget round as Spending Review shelved due to Brexit

News

Friday, August 9, 2019

| CYP Now

The government is to undertake a one-year spending round for public services in 2020-21, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has announced.

Legal duty on public bodies to tackle knife crime together

News

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

| CYP Now

Public sector organisations will be legally bound to work together to tackle serious violence including knife crime under a new duty announced by the government.

Children as young as seven exploited by county lines gangs

News

Friday, July 5, 2019

| CYP Now

Children as young as seven are being used to move drugs for organised gangs, according to new research from The Children's Society.

ADCS annual conference: Child protection and safeguarding key to tackling gangs

News

Friday, July 5, 2019

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders are calling on the government to deliver a coordinated and sustainably funded knife crime strategy, which puts child protection and safeguarding at the top of the agenda.

DWP youth initiative 'fails to help most disadvantaged'

News

Monday, July 1, 2019

| CYP Now

Campaigners have criticised the government's Youth Obligation Support Programme over high drop-out rates and increased risk of benefit sanctions among the country's most disadvantaged young people.

Gender Diversity and Non-Binary Presentations in Young People

Research

Monday, June 24, 2019

| CYP Now

This study aimed to capture the different ways young people who accessed the UK's National Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) identified themselves with regard to gender and how their gender identity was expressed.

Fall in DCS turnover and new appointments

News

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

| CYP Now

Only 17 new director of children's services (DCS) appointments were made last year, the second lowest number recorded in the 12-year history of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS).

Charity receives £4m gift for legal rights advice

News

Thursday, April 25, 2019

| CYP Now

Hundreds more families and young people are set to benefit from a £4m boost to a charity's rights advice service, after Coram received the largest single gift in its near 300-year history.

Young people to develop youth charter with government

News

Thursday, April 11, 2019

| CYP Now

A youth charter aiming to strengthen and co-ordinate national policy is to be developed with young people, the minister for civil society has announced.

Call to improve support for wider children's workforce

News

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

| CYP Now

The government needs to put in place a national strategy to address failures in support for the wider children's workforce, according to children's services bosses.

Spending on children's centres and youth services down £140m

News

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

| CYP Now

Spending on Sure Start children's centres and services for under fives plummeted by £110m last year, according to latest government data.

Google to fund charities to tackle youth violence

News

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

| CYP Now

Internet giant Google will provide grants totalling £600,000 to charities and community organisations as part of efforts to tackle violent crime, it has been announced.

Children's services cuts 'a false economy', Ofsted warns

News

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

| CYP Now

Cuts to children's services budgets for family support and youth work represent a "false economy", simply leading to greater pressure on safeguarding provision, Ofsted has warned.

Government proposes voluntary safeguarding code for out-of-school settings

News

Monday, December 3, 2018

| CYP Now

Out-of-school settings will be asked to abide by a voluntary code of practice as part of government plans to improve safeguarding of children.

CYP Now 2018 Award winners unveiled

News

Thursday, November 22, 2018

| CYP Now

The 2018 CYP Now Awards were revealed last night on a night of celebration and pride for the sector.

Troubled Families teams to get £5m to tackle youth violence

News

Monday, October 22, 2018

| CYP Now

Local authorities will be able to bid for funding from a £5m government fund to boost the work their Troubled Families teams do with young people involved with gangs and serious youth violence, it has been announced.

Government to toughen child safeguarding requirements for charities

News

Monday, October 22, 2018

| CYP Now

Charities working with children and vulnerable people will be subject to tougher safeguarding requirements as part of government efforts to protect them from harm.

'County lines' child trafficker convicted in landmark case

News

Friday, October 5, 2018

| CYP Now

A drug dealer has been jailed for 14 years in the first successful prosecution under legislation to tackle "county lines" crime, in which gangs exploit vulnerable children to establish drug networks.

Fall in missing children incidents linked to 'county lines'

News

Monday, October 1, 2018

| CYP Now

The number of children going missing as a result of their involvement in so-called "county lines" drug networks has fallen dramatically thanks to specialist support offered by a youth charity, an evaluation shows.

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Early Help: Special Report

Chancellor announces one-year budget round as Spending Review shelved due to Brexit

Legal duty on public bodies to tackle knife crime together

Children as young as seven exploited by county lines gangs

ADCS annual conference: Child protection and safeguarding key to tackling gangs

DWP youth initiative 'fails to help most disadvantaged'

Gender Diversity and Non-Binary Presentations in Young People

Fall in DCS turnover and new appointments

Charity receives £4m gift for legal rights advice

Young people to develop youth charter with government

Call to improve support for wider children's workforce

Spending on children's centres and youth services down £140m

Google to fund charities to tackle youth violence

Children's services cuts 'a false economy', Ofsted warns

Government proposes voluntary safeguarding code for out-of-school settings

CYP Now 2018 Award winners unveiled

Troubled Families teams to get £5m to tackle youth violence

Government to toughen child safeguarding requirements for charities

'County lines' child trafficker convicted in landmark case

Fall in missing children incidents linked to 'county lines'

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