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Family Support and Family Hubs: Key policy developments

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

| CYP Now

Poverty is a key driver for both problems arising and the need for support in families, whether that is because of changing personal circumstances such as the loss of work, ill health or divorce, or the impact of benefit changes and rising inflation eating into household income.

Youth justice services should take on young adult cases, chief inspector suggests

News

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

| CYP Now

Youth justice services (YJSs) should take on cases involving 18- to 21-year-olds to relieve pressure on adult probation services amid the prisons overcrowding crisis, chief inspector of probation has said.

Walsall kinship carers get specialist support

Opinion

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

| CYP Now

Walsall Council believes that a child is best brought up within his or her own birth family wherever possible. Where this isn’t possible, the council is committed to finding foster families who can offer safe and stable care for the child, ranging from short stays to permanent placements into adulthood.

Working with kinship families: Tips for children's services professionals

Features

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

| CYP Now

Charity Kinship shares tips for professionals on how best to support kinship families.

Trial bids to tackle mental health challenges faced by children with epilepsy

News

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

| CYP Now

A scheme is to be trialed in the South West of England to improve mental health support for children and young people with epilepsy.

Council receives 'outstanding' rating for children’s services

News

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

| CYP Now

Ofsted has found that young people in Hampshire have benefitted from a "significant investment" in its children's services workforce prompting an "outstanding" rating from inspectors.

The Challenges of Kinship Care

Features

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

| CYP Now

Kinship care is the most common type of care arrangement in the UK but many families are struggling. Jo Stephenson explores the issues and how support for kinship families can improve

SEND inclusion in mainstream schools key to DfE reorganisation

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

As new Prime Minister Keir Starmer finalises ministers, changes in the Department for Education teams suggest a focus on reforming support for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Toolkit aims to spread innovative practice in leaving care services

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

A toolkit that helps organisations supporting care leavers to improve support services has been developed by academics, campaigners and people with care experience.

Warning over state of council finances

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

ADCS president tells children’s services leaders funding deal is essential to balance councils’ books.

Factors behind two-year-old decline

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Falling number of children accessing funded entitlement down to demographic and eligibility changes which need fixes, say experts.

New government puts children’s wellbeing at heart of its agenda

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

In the King’s Speech, Labour outlined legislation to improve child mental health services, protect children educated outside of school, boost safeguards for vulnerable young people and raise education standards.

Leadership changes present an opportunity to reposition NCS

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

The election of the new Labour government and announced departure of its chief executive present challenges for the National Citizen Service (NCS). Before we can consider its future, we must understand the idea behind the creation of the NCS.

Plans approved for former nursery to become special school

News

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

A secondary school for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is set to open on a former nursery site, in response to the previous government’s SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan.

Interview: Conor Warren, 18, chief executive of Spark UK

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Amrit Virdi speaks to the 18-year-old CEO of Spark UK on being a young leader.

Exclusions rise adds impetus for change

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Number of school pupils excluded and suspended rose steeply last year, reinforcing calls for more support for struggling children.

One in five trainee child doctors at risk of burnout

News

Monday, July 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Child health leaders have warned that high workloads among trainee paediatricians could create a workforce crisis that damages care for children.

Seven dyslexic archetypes and how everyone working with young people can help them thrive

Blogs

Friday, July 26, 2024

| CYP Now

One in five people are dyslexic. It’s the most common neurodiversity, and can be identified as early as preschool, though research suggests that as many as 80% leave school without knowing they’re dyslexic.