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<img alt="Drones and artificial intelligence to tackle youth violence? Home Office seeks 'innovative' ideas" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/83172069-eb4c-423b-9ec9-51037e14f7d5/3/DroneYosefAdobeStock-320x198.jpg" />
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The Home Office is offering £500,000 to allow organisations to test out potential innovative technologies that can identify people carrying, overtly or covertly, steel-bladed knives in public open spaces....
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Published: 1 November 2018
<img alt="In the new edition of CYP Now: Early years food, social worker budgets, and tackling youth reoffending" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/3396bfaf-7655-4db7-9eb2-3e84d1d60ccd/3/InThisIssue301018-320x198.jpg" />
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The four-page feature outlines how policy and inspection developments are shaping practice and highlights settings delivering good outcomes for children. The main analysis assesses plans to trial giving...
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cypn
Published: 31 October 2018
<img alt="MPs calls for fundamental review of youth service spending" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/c1586e3c-6d3a-45a4-af57-f7c16d637184/3/ScreenShot20181031at124637-320x198.png" />
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A report by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on youth affairs found that as a result of major financial cuts to services over the past decade, universal youth work has disappeared in some areas,...
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cypn
Published: 31 October 2018
<img alt="Early intervention: Experts call for 25-year government strategy" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/a1f6dde6-1e83-4f51-8ee9-cda2d59e1dcc/2/61dcdc39afcfc7ea8b0bdc634fc010d5jpg-320x198.jpg" />
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A report by the Early Intervention Foundation said the way early intervention services are currently developed is too short-term and fragmented, resulting in a lack of co-ordination across government and...
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cypn
Published: 30 October 2018
<img alt="Longfield to investigate 'shocking' treatment of vulnerable children in assessment units" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/dea133b3-35cf-4743-be72-0c6e0ed823b7/2/annlongfieldbyalexdeverill-320x198.jpg" />
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Anne Longfield said she would be pressing the government to look into reports claiming that children in assessment and treatment units (ATUs) have endured being locked in small padded cells, fed through...
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cypn
Published: 29 October 2018
<img alt="Budget 2018: Hammond pledges £85m for children's social care" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/8416f799-bfb9-45af-a66c-7df90877b6a8/3/ScreenShot20181029at153901-320x198.png" />
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Delivering the 2018 Budget today, Hammond said the money will be provided over the next five years to address the social care pressures faced by councils.
He said departmental spending allocations will...
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cypn
Published: 29 October 2018
<img alt="Early years sector 'systemically underfunded', study finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/62436943-5e21-4efe-ab96-1c5cc0421637/2/ofstedchildcarecreditndna-320x198.jpg" />
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Research agency Ceeda looked at rates handed by English councils to providers of 30 hours funded childcare places for three-and four-year-old, and found that 44 per cent are received less in real terms...
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cypn
Published: 29 October 2018
<img alt="Two thirds of children's social workers want to leave current job, study finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/91ce59a9-158a-485e-b000-2cd10d1c8a70/3/Paperworkcreo77AdobeStock-320x198.jpg" />
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A survey of almost 2,000 (1,953) children social workers found that almost half (48 per cent) of children's social workers said they were dissatisfied at work, compared with 43 per cent last year.
Just...
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cypn
Published: 26 October 2018
<img alt="CYP Now top 10 stories October 2018" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/fd6a8b9b-7c95-483f-a590-ac72cef89005/4/ScreenShot20170413at161432-320x198.png" />
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1. Extend mandatory role of health visitors, urges children's commissioner
2. Mental health checks for looked-after children to begin in June 2019...
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Published: 26 October 2018