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North East launches foster care recruitment partnership

Friday, September 29, 2023

| CYP Now

A government-backed foster care initiative has been launched in a bid to tackle a carer recruitment crisis in the North East of England.

Mental health fund for migrant children launches

News

Thursday, September 28, 2023

| CYP Now

Councils and charities are being invited to apply for a £2.5m mental health fund to support refugee children from Ukraine, Afghanistan and Hong Kong.

Home’s therapeutic provision helps to foster independence

Best Practice

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Children’s home specialist support jointly funded by health and social care agencies enables young people to successfully transition to community placements.

Homes for young people with complex needs

Best Practice

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Innovative partnership with providers in Berkshire offers homes to young people with complex needs.

Voluntary agencies publish sibling adoption guide

News

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs) have joined forces to reduce levels of separation among sibling groups who are adopted.

The dos and don’ts of case recording

Features

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Care records can help make sense of difficult childhood experiences but vary widely in quality. Drawing on her own experiences, Rebekah Pierre provides key pointers on sensitive case recording.

How artists help children to explore their life stories

Best Practice

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Creative Life Story Work sees care-experienced children work with artists to process their experiences in ways that improve their wellbeing and relationships.

Residential Care Special Report 2023

Features

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

A new government policy paper puts forward plans to change the way residential care placements are commissioned but the measures fall short of solving a shortage of children’s homes places, say experts.

Hull invests so children in care stay connected

Best Practice

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Yorkshire council opens its own homes on “nice estates” to enable more children in care to live and thrive in the city of Hull.

Residential Care: Key policy developments

Other

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Latest Department for Education statistics show that there were 2,880 children’s homes operating on 31 March 2023, an increase of nine per cent from the previous year (238 homes).

Spotlight on sibling sexual abuse

Analysis

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Guide helps children’s practitioners support families to address trauma of sibling sexual abuse.

The Big Debate: Will new regulations improve the standard of residential care?

Other

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

CYP Now hosts an expert panel to debate whether the imminent introduction of regulation for supported accommodation providers will deliver required improvements in standards for children’s residential care.

Time to scrap the requirement of foster carers to keep diaries

Analysis

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| CYP Now

Why do we insist on recording diaries, detailing the private lives of foster children?

Council’s children’s services receives uplifted Ofsted rating

News

Monday, September 25, 2023

| CYP Now

A local authority no longer requires government intervention to improve its children’s services after Ofsted uplifted its rating from “inadequate” to “good”.

One in three children in care enter youth justice system, study finds

News

Monday, September 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Children who have been in care are more likely to be involved with the youth justice system, a new study has found.

MPs call for statutory definition of child criminal exploitation

News

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.