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More children are being adopted, but councils need to do more to recruit the "right" adopters, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Ofsted relaxes inspections for struggling 'inadequate' councils

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Monday, September 17, 2018

| CYP Now

Councils where children's services standards are deemed to be "inadequate" are to receive shorter, less intense re-inspections, Ofsted has announced.

Multi-agency unit to tackle 'county lines' crime launches

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Friday, September 21, 2018

| CYP Now

A £3.6m unit to tackle "county lines" crime where gangs from urban areas exploit children to establish drug-dealing networks in rural areas has launched.

Children's services 'fail to support children of disabled parents'

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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

| CYP Now

Children's social care services risk unnecessarily separating children from disabled parents through misunderstanding their conditions and weak joint working with adult services, research has claimed.

Ditch ‘bedroom tax' to save more children from poverty

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Monday, May 13, 2013

| CYP Now

I have a sense of déjà vu with regard to the benefit reforms. It reminds me of the last period of austerity in the 1980s. Here we are again, cutting back services and this time demonising the poorest in society and imposing benefit cuts on them.

In Focus: Family nurse partnerships

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Monday, May 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Mental health checks for looked-after children to begin in June 2019

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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

| CYP Now

Children will start receiving mental health assessments when they enter the care system from June 2019 as part of a delayed pilot project, it has emerged.

Moving on from domestic abuse

Best Practice

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

| CYP Now

The latest in a series about emerging safeguarding practice looks at how an NSPCC programme supports mothers and their children who have been victims of domestic abuse to move on together.

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

Zahawi reveals initiatives to spearhead £84m drive to reduce care numbers

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Friday, November 2, 2018

| CYP Now

Details of initiatives that will be expanded to other local authorities as part of an £84m drive to reduce the number of children being taken into care have been revealed by children's minister Nadhim Zahawi.

Youth advice charity steps in to safeguard teenagers

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people's advice charity Youth Access has launched a project to safeguard teenagers across England at risk of neglect and abuse - a group it believes is being let down by statutory services.

CYP Now 2018 Award winners unveiled

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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.

Government turns to innovation programme to address care rise

Features

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Three projects aimed at preventing children coming into care and helping those already in the system to leave are to be expanded to 20 councils. Experts call for greater emphasis on supporting families to stay together.

How to help siblings maintain contact

Best Practice

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Experts outline five key messages for legal and social work professionals to emerge from latest research on sibling relationships in the care system.

Fixer of family justice system: Sir James Munby, chair, Nuffield Family Justice Observatory

Features

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett talks to Sir James Munby, chair, Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.

The hidden helpers

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Hundreds of thousands of children and young people care for a family member, but their needs often get ignored. Joe Lepper investigates the barriers young carers face in getting the vital support they require.

Local economics and children's services standards 'central to lower care rates'

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Thursday, November 29, 2018

| CYP Now

Reducing local levels of poverty and providing good-quality children's services are central to lowering the number of children being taken into care, a study has found.

UN challenges treatment of asylum-seeking children

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

| CYP Now

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has criticised the way children are treated within the UK asylum process.

MP seeks to widen legal definition of neglect

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

| CYP Now

An MP will today launch a bid to make the emotional and psychological neglect of children a crime.

Daily roundup: Play strategy, DCS to retire early, and genital mutilation

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Monday, June 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Scotland gets its first national play strategy, Norfolk's children's services boss retires early, and the NSPCC opens a female genital mutilation helpline, all in the news today.