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Interview: More than just a name - Clare Tickell, chief executive, Action for Children

17 September 2008, Children & Young People Now

NCH is dead. Long live Action for Children. This week, after 139 years of working under the National Children's Home or NCH banner, the charity changed its name.

Feature: Looked-after children: Care in the chair

10 September 2008, Children & Young People Now

What really matters when you're in care? Sam Thorp asks young people at one of the largest gatherings of looked-after children.

Feature: Asylum seekers: Home from home

16 July 2008, Children & Young People Now

Schools often struggle to include refugee and asylum-seeking children. Shafik Meghji visits a school in Essex that is bucking the trend.

Analysis: Family law - Legal proceedings fall after reform

16 July 2008, Children & Young People Now

In April, the Public Law Outline was introduced to help improve the way child protection cases were handled. But new figures show reforms have led to a drop in the...

Feature: Looked-after children: A stable home

9 July 2008, Children & Young People Now

Councils are struggling to meet tough government targets on providing stable homes for looked-after children.

Interview: Community spirit - Phil Hope, minister for the third sector and social exclusion

2 July 2008, Children & Young People Now

Making volunteering attractive to young people is key to involving them in their local communities, says third sector minister Phil Hope.

Feature: Participation: Our trip to the UN

25 June 2008, Children & Young People Now

Sue Learner speaks to the UK children who went to Geneva to give evidence to the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Analysis: Policy - DCSF under inspection - one year on

25 June 2008, Children & Young People Now

The Department for Children, Schools and Families celebrates its first anniversary this week. Here, CYP Now brings together a team of senior figures from the sector to deliver their verdicts...

Analysis: Children's services - Young runaways: a strategy at last

18 June 2008, Children & Young People Now

The government has set out its plans to improve work with the 100,000 under-16s who run away from home or care each year - and it has been hailed as...

Analysis: Every child matters - Councils' performance remains static

18 June 2008, Children & Young People Now

Ofsted's report examining 2007's annual performance assessments of local children's services paints a disappointing picture of progress on children's outcomes. Joe Lepper finds out why there is still much progress...