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Analysis: Antisocial Behaviour - The Youth Taskforce sets out its stall

26 March 2008, Children & Young People Now

The Youth Taskforce Action Plan, released last week, pledges a number of early intervention measures designed to stem the rise of antisocial behaviour. Alison Bennett examines whether these initiatives are...

Special Report: Advice Services - Connexions: what next?

26 March 2008, Children & Young People Now

A CYP Now survey has found that almost one in five Connexions services intend to cut jobs as part of the 1 April move to local authority control. Tristan Donovan...

Commercialisation - Hard sell harming childhood?

26 March 2008, Nursery World

Many parents think the onslaught of consumerism is bad for their children, as Annette Rawstrone hears.

Analysis: Youth custody - Are secure homes on their way out?

19 March 2008, Children & Young People Now

As Gladstone House, a secure children's home in Liverpool prepares to be shut down, Sue Leaner explores why local authorities have opted to rid themselves of these facilities in recent...

Analysis: Nursery Education Grant - Fair shares?

19 March 2008, Nursery World

Will funding between the maintained and PVI nursery sectors ever be worked out so one does not get a bigger slice than the other?, asks Simon Vevers.

Analysis: Asylum seekers' age under scrutiny

12 March 2008, Children & Young People Now

A Court of Appeal ruling has given the courts the final say in cases where an asylum-seeking child's age is under dispute.

Analysis: Benefits of Sure Start begin to tell

12 March 2008, Children & Young People Now

The government held the first national conference for children's centre managers last week, timed to coincide with the latest evaluation of Sure Start.

Television programme: Whistleblower: the sector speaks

12 March 2008, Nursery World

Leading early years figures give their responses to last week's undercover expose of bad practice in two nurseries and a holiday creche, and its criticism of the childcare registration and...

Analysis: Child poverty - Why London is the capital of poverty

5 March 2008, Children & Young People Now

According to a report by the London Child Poverty Commission there has been no progress in reducing levels of financial hardship among the capital's families since 2000. The report's authors...

Analysis: Substance misuse - Families at centre of drugs strategy

5 March 2008, Children & Young People Now

The government's new 10-year strategy for combating drug use sets out a series of ambitious changes to services for families and young people. But, as Tristan Donovan finds out, putting...