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Care-experienced children in Reading share their views to break down barriers

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

Brighter Futures for Children’s Care2Listen group has won the participation prize at the A National Voice Awards after encouraging looked-after children to share their views.

Inspections Clinic - social care provision

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| CYP Now

Ofsted’s latest annual report highlights improving standards across children’s social care but raises concerns about increasing numbers of children in unregistered provision, reports Jo Stephenson.

Children in supported accommodation not protected against corporal punishment, DfE admits

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

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Children’s rights campaigners are raising concerns over an admission by the children’s minister that vulnerable teenagers living in supported accommodation are not explicitly protected against a ban on corporal punishment.

Access to therapy increases for adopted adults

News

Thursday, December 21, 2023

| CYP Now

Adult adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents will no longer face barriers to accessing therapy due to a change in rules around registration.

Councils urged to share care leaver offer on comparison site

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

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Local authorities are being urged to sign up to a website to promote their care leaver offers.

Government promises better advocacy and commissioning of services for disabled children

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

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Improved advocacy support and commissioning of residential care for disabled children are among pledges made by the government in response to a review of the Hesley homes abuse scandal.

Children’s Home Association announces changes to leadership

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

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The Children’s Home Association (CHA) has announced changes to its leadership team, marking a shift in priorities for the membership organisation.

MacAlister: Government care review plans ‘welcome’ but ‘too timid’

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

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Care Review chair Josh MacAlister says details released by the government this month on overhauling children’s social care are “welcome progress” but have “further to go”.

Large private children’s homes provider sold to private equity firms

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Monday, December 18, 2023

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The fourth largest provider of private children’s home places in England and Wales has been sold to two private equity firms.

National kinship strategy ‘falls disappointingly short’, sector leaders say

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Friday, December 15, 2023

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The government’s first kinship care strategy falls short of “wholesale reform” for the sector and is “lacking in the scale, ambition and investment needed”, sector leaders have said.

Government publishes first kinship care strategy

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Friday, December 15, 2023

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Increased financial allowances for some kinship carers and an expansion of virtual school heads' roles are among elements included in the government’s first kinship care strategy.

Care-experienced young people urged to join DfE funded advisory body

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

| CYP Now

An advisory board of young people with experience of care is being set up to help develop government reforms of children’s social care.

Preventative support focus sees Ofsted uplift council’s rating to ‘outstanding’

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

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Wiltshire County Council’s children’s services' Ofsted grade has been uplifted to "outstanding", with inspectors praising its investment in family support to prevent children being taken into care.

Mural challenges perceptions of children in care

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Monday, December 11, 2023

| CYP Now

A former Welsh children’s laureate has partnered with Foster Wales to challenge perceptions of young people in care through a new mural in South Wales.