
4 July 2009
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The decision by a Liverpool university to cut its youth work course could have serious repercussions. Janaki Mahadevan reports.
There were many new pledges announced in the 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy. Lauren Higgs reports.
The University of Chichester is proposing to close its Youth and Community Work degree course because of falling student numbers.
Child and family social workers can continue to be hired from abroad after the government accepted the findings of the Migration Advisory Committee's review.
There is just one week to go before the 2009 Children & Young People Now Show, which includes a range of workshops on children's centres and extended schools.
A group of MPs is to undertake an inquiry into the quality and supply of training for children and families' social workers.
The early years sector has called for more targeted training and support six months after a new curriculum for under-fives became law.
As team manager for Slough's Youth Offending Team (YOT), Shelley La Rose estimates that she spends 70 per cent of her time out of the...
MAGGIE EYRE Employer : Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council Age: 55 Time in job : Six years Salary: £20,000 As a learning mentor at Cale Green...
Michael Tichelar is the local area partnership strategy manager for children's services at Bath and North East Somerset Council.
Katie O'Neill runs a children's unit housing eight young people - both boys and girls - aged 10 to 18, who have been abused, neglected...
Sam Adofo is in his second stint at the Salmon Youth Centre, a project in Bermondsey in south-east London that has been running since 1907.
When a Sure Start centre opened in Stockton in 2001, Barbara Brookes immediately applied and got a job as the local programme manager.
Peter Kirby helps to provide a range of health and drug education programmes in schools.
Sam Evans originally wanted to work with horses but got into youth work after her dad volunteered her.
Jenny Comery manages the youth programme at Forward, an organisation that works to raise awareness and campaigns against female genital mutilation.
Craig Whittaker brings drug and alcohol awareness to young people.
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