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<img alt="DfE orders review of Northamptonshire children's services amid plans to split council" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/dcbf2510-e1e6-4bb4-a409-478774fc3c04/1/northamptonshirecountycouncil-320x198.png" />
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The commissioner has been named as Malcolm Newsam, who has previously been drafted in as commissioner to help improve children's services in Rotherham and Sandwell. His appointment follows a highly critical...
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Published: 30 November 2018
<img alt="Children's services experience major increase in FGM cases" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/981df578-f7e3-49da-ac9c-0707fea9d97f/3/LeethenBartholomewpictureBarnardos-320x198.png" />
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Analysis of Department for Education data by the National FGM Centre shows that FGM was a feature in 1,960 social work assessments by councils in 2017/18, compared with 970 cases the previous year. ...
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Published: 30 November 2018
<img alt="Majority of struggling parents 'put off work' due to childcare costs" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/7b6e61b9-7558-48f9-b41b-c91f1f6b05fa/3/ofstedchildcarecreditndna-320x198.jpg" />
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The Centre for Social Justice and Save the Children study found that 57 per cent of low-income parents said they would be put off working or working additional hours because of the associated costs of...
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Published: 29 November 2018
<img alt="Local economics and children's services standards 'central to lower care rates'" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b1f47cce-dc61-48b7-8442-04dd737a9e2b/1/picturemorguefile-320x198.png" />
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Research conducted for the What Works Centre for Children's Social Care found that while 60 per cent of local authorities saw an average rise in the rate of looked-after children between 2012 and 2017,...
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Published: 29 November 2018
<img alt="Youth offending teams urged to link up with magistrates to review orders" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/0db0261f-046a-4eb4-8908-2ebaf498ae1f/3/SRPRACTICEAntonioguillemAdobeStock125640617-320x198.jpg" />
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Northamptonshire YOS is the only youth justice team in the country to use the approach, whereby magistrates take part in youth rehabilitation order review meetings with young people.
The informal meetings,...
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Published: 29 November 2018
<img alt="SCR finds Somerset agencies' failings led to 15 years of abuse for three children" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/ff112b74-327f-46a2-9db3-3397a10b106f/3/SomersetCountyCouncil-320x198.jpeg" />
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A report published by Somerset Safeguarding Children Board (SSCB) found Somerset County Council's children's social care department, Avon and Somerset Constabulary, Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation...
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Published: 28 November 2018
<img alt="In the new edition of CYP Now: Lifelong Links; reducing care; and attainment gap" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/c7ecaa7d-572d-47ab-ba48-ebcbed70cae2/3/InThisIssue271118-320x198.jpg" />
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The government is to fund the expansion of three programmes to 20 councils in an effort to stem the continued rise in the number of children in care. We analyse what impact the programmes have had, while...
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Published: 28 November 2018
<img alt="Management wins praise for improvements at secure training centre" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/05c62587-f549-45a3-a405-5b6c1c155335/1/rainsbrook2-320x198.png" />
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The Care Quality Commission, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons and Ofsted awarded Rainsbrook STC in Warwickshire improved judgments in four inspection areas, with senior leadership praised for implementing...
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Published: 28 November 2018
<img alt="Schools funding 'near crisis point' due to SEND pressures" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/d51e0eb8-ed40-4468-baa2-7dd4a0d75b2a/2/DaveHill008ByAlexDeverill-320x198.jpg" />
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Dave Hill, executive director of children, families and learning at Surrey County Council, told members of the education select committee that the schools funding system is "close to a national crisis"...
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Published: 27 November 2018