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Justice system needs to recognise impact of care

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Intersectionality is a concept to describe the interconnected nature of social categorisations as they apply to a given individual or group, which create interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Spending Review: Key asks for children and young people

News

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

CYP Now breaks down key funding asks from across the sector.

Children & Young People Now Awards 2021 Shortlist

Features

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

| CYP Now

The CYP Now Awards highlight the very best practice in work with children, young people and families.

NYAS apologises over failure to comply with data protection rules

News

Monday, August 2, 2021

| CYP Now

The National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS) has vowed to strengthen its privacy policy after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it had shared a young person’s information with a solicitor.

Review urges 'age-appropriate' drug services for young people

News

Monday, July 12, 2021

| CYP Now

The government should invest in “age-appropriate” drug services for young people amid a 40 per cent rise in drug use in 11- to 15-year-olds, a major report finds.

Secure children’s home shortage letting children down, Ofsted warns

News

Friday, July 9, 2021

| CYP Now

An acute shortage of secure children’s homes (SCHs) in England is leaving the most vulnerable children at risk of harm, Ofsted has warned.

Councils to pilot local decision-making for trafficked children

News

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

| CYP Now

A new pilot programme will give local authority safeguarding teams the power to decide upon a child’s status as a victim of trafficking.

Allow councils to run new secure academies, urge MPs and campaigners

News

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

| CYP Now

MPs and campaigners are backing calls to give local authorities the power to maintain and establish a new form of secure children’s home for 16- to 19-year-olds.

Stockport DCS receives OBE in Queen’s birthday honours list

News

Monday, June 14, 2021

| CYP Now

Chris McLoughlin, director of children’s services at Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s birthday honours.

Major study to explore new ways to prevent child exploitation

News

Friday, May 7, 2021

| CYP Now

A £1.9m project studying safeguarding risks faced by young people outside their home will look at new ways of combating threats such as sexual and criminal exploitation and gang affiliation.

Race report 'vindicates' disproportionate exclusions of black children, critics say

News

Thursday, April 1, 2021

| CYP Now

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities' has been criticised over the "vindication" of disproportionate use of exclusions for children from minority ethnic backgrounds in its recent report.

Campaign calls for ban on handcuffing children

News

Friday, March 26, 2021

| CYP Now

A new campaign is calling for a ban on the use of handcuffs on children and young people.

Scotland enshrines UNCRC in domestic law

News

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

| CYP Now

Campaigners are celebrating after Scottish ministers voted to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law.