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Wider factors influencing the closure of children's homes

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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There is a sufficiency crisis for looked-after children in residential and foster care. In the case of residential sufficiency, the crisis has now become more acute with the reported planned closure of a significant number of homes operated by Outcomes First Group (see "Guide to OFG" below).

The big debate: Can the SEND improvement plan create a less adversarial system?

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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CYP Now hosts an expert panel to discuss whether government plans to ‘transform’ services for children with special educational needs and disabilities will create a less adversarial experience for securing support.

Tackling rising cost of caring

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Young carers need more financial support to counter the impact of rising living costs, say campaigners.

Legal Update: Illegal Migration Bill

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Marianne Lagrue, policy and programmes manager in the Migrant Children's Project at Coram Children's Legal Centre, assesses the Illegal Migration Bill's impact on children and agencies.

Brent: Recruitment drives have injected new skills and ideas

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Brent Council has staged a series of recruitment drives for overseas children’s social workers over the last decade.

Councils must review behaviour policies

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Protocol for dealing with behavioural issues in social care settings fails to cut criminalisation of children in care, academics warn.

Asylum plans concern councils

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Proposals risk undermining local authority responsibilities to asylum-seeking children, leaders warn.

Recruiting social workers from overseas

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Amid ongoing shortages of social workers, children's services are increasingly turning to international recruitment to fill staffing gaps. Joe Lepper explores challenges and best practice.

Many children in care being moved hundreds of miles from home, charity warns

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Charity Become has urged the government and local authorities to increase availability of local care placements in England, warning that hundreds of children have been moved to Scotland and Wales.

Barnet: Overseas social workers boost understanding of different cultures

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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In 2020, Barnet Council began recruiting overseas children’s social workers to help fill the more than 60 vacancies it had at the time.

Review calls for ‘major overhaul’ of residential care for disabled children

Thursday, April 20, 2023

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An independent review is calling for “fundamental changes” in the way residential care for disabled children is commissioned, managed and regulated.

Ofsted uplifts Birmingham children’s services' rating

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

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Children’s services in Birmingham have been praised by Ofsted inspectors following years of turmoil, which saw the department taken over by a children’s trust five years ago.

Most teachers seeing increase in safeguarding referrals

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

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The majority of teachers are seeing an increase in the number of safeguarding referrals related to children facing abuse and neglect.

Social work agencies consultation could increase ‘stability’ in children’s services, says ADCS president

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

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The Department for Education’s consultation to address the “pernicious practices of some social work agencies” could bring stability back to the workforce, the new president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said.

Kinship carer support hub launches

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

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Charity Kinship has launched its first online support hub for kinship carers.

DfE offers £1m contract to run foster care campaign

Monday, April 17, 2023

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The Department for Education is searching for a delivery partner to drive forward plans for a £1m foster care recruitment campaign, in response to recommendations made in the Care Review.

Ofsted commends improved support for children’s social workers in Haringey

Thursday, April 13, 2023

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Haringey Council has been praised by Ofsted for its work to improve support for frontline children’s social workers.

Extend proposed local agency ban for social workers to six months, urges ADCS

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

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Plans to ban children’s social workers joining an agency within three months of leaving a council in the same area should be extended to six months or more, says the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS).

Teaching union calls for ‘urgent’ school support for refugees

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

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Extra funding and training for teachers to help support the needs of refugee and asylum seeking pupils is needed “urgently”, according to teaching union NASUWT.

Two child limit ‘pushing families into deep poverty’, campaigners warn

Thursday, April 6, 2023

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The government’s two child limit on additional benefits support is pushing families further into poverty, a report by campaigners is warning.

Trust takes over Bradford’s ‘inadequate’ children’s services

Thursday, April 6, 2023

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An independent trust set up to run children’s services in Bradford has launched, after the city's council failed to improve support for vulnerable young people despite a raft of critical Ofsted reports.

Young people urge councils to support care experience campaign

Thursday, April 6, 2023

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Young people are working alongside a campaign urging local authorities to adopt care experience as a protected characteristic.

Teenager takes council to court over hostel placement

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

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A vulnerable teenage girl is launching a legal challenge against Lambeth Council after she was placed in a hostel around the time of her 17th birthday when she was homeless.

Former children’s minister calls for asylum transfer scheme to be replaced

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

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The government must completely revamp its local authority dispersal scheme for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and “properly” fund councils to deliver necessary support, former children’s minister Tim Loughton has said.

Social workers in schools do not reduce referral rates, research finds

Monday, April 3, 2023

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Embedding social workers in schools does not reduce children’s need to access social care services, despite its positive reputation among social workers, staff and students, a large-scale evaluation has found.

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