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MPs call for statutory definition of child criminal exploitation

Friday, September 22, 2023

| CYP Now

A group of cross-party MPs has called for a statutory definition of child criminal exploitation (CCE) in a letter to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.

Independent scrutiny is ‘grit’ in safeguarding system

Opinion

Thursday, September 21, 2023

| CYP Now

“Oversight” is one of those words that can often raise an unintended smile, especially when it gets wheeled out in an official capacity.

Sector raises questions over plan for RCCs in response to Care Review consultation

News

Thursday, September 21, 2023

| CYP Now

Almost half of respondents to a government consultation on its proposals for the implementation of recommendations made in the Care Review have questioned plans for the regional commissioning of residential and foster care.

Children England to close after 81 years

News

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

| CYP Now

Children England, the collective body for children’s charities, will close after 81 years, the organisation’s leaders have announced.

Almost a third of social worker sick days caused by stress

News

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

| CYP Now

Just under a third of absences among social workers are caused by mental health problems, including stress and work-related anxieties.

Children England: Sector pays tribute as charity announces closure

News

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

| CYP Now

Organisations and professionals supporting children and young people have paid tribute to the work of Children England, the collective body for children’s charities, after it announced its closure due to “financial challenges”.

Medical experts slam ‘unethical’ use of x-rays in asylum age assessments

News

Monday, September 18, 2023

| CYP Now

Experts in paediatric medicine have branded legislation to use x-rays as part of age assessments carried out on lone migrant children arriving in the UK as “inaccurate” and “unethical”.

Children’s commissioner seeks young people’s views ahead of general election

News

Thursday, September 14, 2023

| CYP Now

The children’s commissioner for England will be asking young people about their political priorities ahead of the next general election, as part of her new campaign The Big Ambition.

Councils 'prioritising crisis intervention funding'

News

Thursday, September 14, 2023

| CYP Now

The proportion of children’s services funding being spent on crisis interventions has increased markedly over the last decade, analysis has found.

Call for better mental health and education support for kinship care families

News

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

| CYP Now

The government is being urged to put in place a raft of support for kinship carers and the children they are supporting.

Council vows to improve children’s services after ‘inadequate' rating

News

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

| CYP Now

A local authority has vowed to make improving children’s services its “highest priority” after they were rated “inadequate” by Ofsted.

Birmingham Children’s Trust appoints new chief executive

News

Monday, September 11, 2023

| CYP Now

Tower Hamlets Council’s director of children’s services has been named as the new chief executive of Birmingham Children’s Trust.

Care Review: Government’s pilot plan unlikely to bring change, peer warns

News

Friday, September 8, 2023

| CYP Now

Government plans to “test and review” recommendations made in its response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care are “unlikely to lead to the level of investment and change that the system so desperately needs”, a peer has said.

Guidance to tackle sibling sexual abuse launches

News

Thursday, September 7, 2023

| CYP Now

Guidance to help children’s professionals better deal with incidents of sexual behaviour and abuse among siblings has been launched by the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA Centre).

New local government and social care ombudsman announced

News

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

| CYP Now

A judge at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal has been announced as the new permanent local government and social care ombudsman (LGO).

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Social Work

Other

Friday, September 1, 2023

| CYP Now

Department for Education data shows there were 7,900 social work vacancies in England in 2022, up by more than a fifth compared with the previous year and the highest rate since 2017. In 2022, children's services lost 5,400 full-time equivalent social workers.

Ofsted announces thematic inspection of regional adoption agencies

News

Friday, September 1, 2023

| CYP Now

Ofsted will conduct a thematic inspection of regional adoption agencies (RAAs), the inspectorate has announced.

Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training 2023/24

Features

Friday, September 1, 2023

| CYP Now

With many parts of the sector facing recruitment challenges, Joe Lepper identifies developments in entry-level requirements and ongoing professional development for children's services practitioners.

David Johnston appointed as children’s minister

News

Thursday, August 31, 2023

| CYP Now

David Johnston has been appointed as the Department for Education’s tenth children’s minister in just over a decade after his predecessor Claire Coutinho was promoted to Energy Secretary.

Children's minister Claire Coutinho promoted to Energy Secretary

News

Thursday, August 31, 2023

| CYP Now

Claire Coutinho has been promoted to Energy and Net Zero Secretary, Downing Street has announced, meaning the Department for Education will have had seven different children's ministers since the last election.

Inside CYP Now this month: Residential youth work, Care Review pilot, youth justice trends

News

Thursday, August 31, 2023

| CYP Now

The September edition of Children & Young People Now has all the latest news, views and analysis on the key issues affecting services for children, young people and families.

Children with a parent in prison get timely help

Best Practice

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Project speeds up process of identifying children affected by parental imprisonment to boost wellbeing and reduce the risk of intergenerational offending.

Disparity between the discharge of care orders in England and Wales

Analysis

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Researchers investigate the benefits and pitfalls of different ways in which care orders are discharged, asking what needs to change in policy and practice to better meet the needs of children and families.

NYAS to run DfE advocacy helpline

News

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

The National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS) has been granted government funding to run a helpline service for children in care and care leavers for the next two years.

Local authorities urged to fulfil Children Act duties to child asylum seekers

News

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Local authorities in England have been urged to appropriately support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children after a recent High Court judgment ruled that Kent County Council (KCC) acted in breach of the Children Act 1989 by failing to accommodate all lone children upon notification of their arrival.

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