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<img alt="Two million children 'at serious risk', children's commissioner finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/087cda81-3e4a-479c-85e7-bc8d9012b380/1/annlongfieldbyalexdeverill-320x198.jpg" />
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A report looking into the scale of childhood vulnerability found that of the 2.1 million at serious risk because their parents have serious mental health or substance abuse problems, they live in a home...
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Published: 4 July 2018
<img alt="Architects of SEND system criticise government progress" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/e8eec83b-44df-405f-be28-5991b3c24a72/3/ScreenShot20180704at120014-320x198.png" />
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Appearing before the education select committee, Brian Lamb, who carried out a review into parental confidence in the SEN system in 2009, and Baroness Warnock, whose 1978 review led to SEN statementing,...
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Published: 3 July 2018
<img alt="Ofsted praises council's 'outstanding' support for children in care" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/04800d77-fd4f-4133-ae0d-f380111269df/3/Capture-320x198.png" />
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An inspection of provision in Brent found that strong leadership at a political level and throughout the council had resulted in significant improvements in the quality of social work practice for children...
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Published: 3 July 2018
<img alt="Inspectors praise improvements to 'front door' social work in Liverpool" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b14a411e-4f5c-48e9-8184-84cb0c747f2e/3/Capture-320x198.png" />
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Inspectors said they were impressed with a revamp in November 2017 of Liverpool's multi-agency safeguarding hub (Mash), which handles initial child protection concerns.
Children at risk of significant...
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Published: 3 July 2018
<img alt="SEND school exclusion practice faces legal challenge" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/6b3637c3-0841-453d-968b-1bab2831861e/3/Capture-320x198.png" />
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The challenge, which is being opposed by the Department for Education, is being brought by the parents of a 13-year-old boy who was excluded from school due to behaviour linked to his autism. The parents'...
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Published: 3 July 2018
<img alt="Government to allow cohabitees of serious offenders to work in nurseries" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/82afbd9a-8f31-4ffc-bbe8-81c97825f716/3/ChildminderandreeastockAdobeStock-320x198.jpg" />
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Currently, childcare workers can be disqualified because someone who lives or works in their household has been cautioned for, or convicted of, certain offences. Offences that currently lead to an automatic...
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Published: 3 July 2018
<img alt="Daily roundup 3 July: Domestic abuse, loneliness, and state-run nurseries" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/4618f984-e704-45c1-a130-272784933dd6/1/260312domesticviolencedavidmccullough-320x198.jpg" />
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Thousands of parents falsely claim domestic abuse to access legal aid and stop estranged partners from seeing their children, a parenting charity has claimed. The BBC reports that Families Need Fathers...
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Published: 3 July 2018
<img alt="Give youth work remit back to DfE, children's services leaders urge" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/8b59de58-ce09-48ca-a902-e5dbc3a6d53c/1/166dd37205a1743be34eec14197d36e8gif-320x198.gif" />
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As part of an evidence submission to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Youth Affairs inquiry into youth work, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) said youth policy has...
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Published: 2 July 2018
<img alt="Children's services account for fraction of shared council savings" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/125b0ff3-da34-442f-aca5-985e3964e54d/1/c3be8fbee29f0ff6992be087835887dfjpg-320x198.jpg" />
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Figures released by the Local Government Association show that shared services have delivered £942.1m of cumulative savings for local government but little of that originates in children's services partnerships...
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Published: 2 July 2018