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<img alt="One in three children denied specialist mental health treatment" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/a46c8d2b-b659-4984-a93d-d331a4d2ad25/3/MentalhealthMediteraneoAdobeStock-320x198.jpg" />
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A Freedom of Information request to NHS Trusts in England by the NSPCC found schools seeking professional help for pupils from NHS child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) made 123,713 referrals...
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Published: 14 May 2018
<img alt="DfE provides £27m to boost SEND support" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/8f6bc6da-eab5-41a4-be0e-c67cbe578456/5/NadhimZahawi-320x198.jpg" />
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The announcement comes as new figures show that the number of children still waiting to be transferred from an SEN statement to an education, health, and care (EHC) plan fell to less than 4,000 as of the...
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Published: 11 May 2018
<img alt="Sadiq Khan announces funding for youth projects to tackle knife crime" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/c6476662-1b4b-410c-9f16-e018aef09358/6/ScreenShot20170320at112021-320x198.png" />
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The money will be shared between 34 local projects that seek to prevent and protect young people from knife violence. It follows a spate of stabbings in capital, which have claimed the lives of at least...
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Published: 11 May 2018
<img alt="Daily roundup 11 May: School places, youth custody, and care applications" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/39aacaa7-1836-41c7-b13d-521bd37577ab/1/schoolluciecarlier180712-320x198.jpg" />
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Grammar schools in England are being given the chance to create thousands of new places in a trimmed-down selective school expansion programme. The BBC reports that expanded wholly selective schools will...
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Published: 11 May 2018
<img alt="Young people to get rewards for social action in £1m initiative" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/078901e1-ab65-4768-a1a2-3c36a867ea84/3/vinspiredecotalent3-320x198.jpg" />
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Youth volunteering charity Vinspired will run the UK-wide reward card scheme - which will be called the Inspired card - offering a range of discounts for shops, events and attractions, to young people aged...
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Published: 11 May 2018
<img alt="Children's home providers challenge MP over out-of-area placement figures" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/723be728-6533-4bc7-bc09-5bc381371d40/2/homecarebedroomtaxalexdeverill-320x198.jpg" />
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During a parliamentary debate Labour MP Ann Coffey said there has been an increase of more than 60 per cent in children being "farmed out" to children's homes outside of their local authority area compared...
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Published: 10 May 2018
<img alt="London council moves out of 'inadequate'" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/1b5629e0-dd68-4206-98a4-c9bc02894bd3/1/lambeth-320x198.png" />
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Lambeth Council, which had been given Ofsted's lowest judgment in 2015, is now rated as "requires improvement" overall by inspectors.
Following a visit in January and February this year inspectors found...
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Published: 9 May 2018
<img alt="Decline in adoptions continues, figures show" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/3887efc9-b0dc-4c45-b5cb-fdb12a8034a4/1/adoptionactivityday-320x198.jpg" />
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Statistics released by the Adoption Leadership Board reveal that 4,370 children were adopted in 2016/17, 6.4 per cent down on the 4,690 adoptions recorded in 2015/16.
The annual rate of decline is around...
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Published: 9 May 2018
<img alt="Inspectors praise 'dramatic' drop in violence at YOI" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/187bc4a0-4f87-42f5-a239-a41b72bd2060/3/ScreenShot20180508at155019-320x198.png" />
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Peter Clarke, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, said that Feltham A YOI, which holds around 140 young people, mainly aged between 16 and 17, became significantly safer in the last year following a critical...
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Published: 9 May 2018