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Nutrition guidance for early years settings must improve

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

Guidance for nursery schools, Sure Start centres and childminders on providing healthy food for children needs to be improved because food provided in such settings is too high in fat,...

Families of disabled children need better support

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

A disabled children's campaign group has called on the government to improve its targeting of support services for families of disabled children after research showed that one in three families...

Guide launched to aid community organisation commissioning

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

A guide aimed at encouraging community organisations to get involved in commissioning to improve outcomes for children and young people has been published by a partnership of community sector umbrella...

Sure Start dubbed 'a great achievement'

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

Charity 4Children has described Sure Start children's centres as "one of the greatest achievements of modern government" as the number of centres in England reached 3,500.

Schools to receive pupil premiums for taking poorest children

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

Plans for a local pupil premium that would involve schools receiving a payment for every child they educate from the poorest households have been announced by the government.

Straw abolishes court fees for care cases

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

Justice Secretary Jack Straw has announced that fees of up to £5,000 incurred by local authorities to bring care cases to court are to be scrapped, following an independent review...

How we are improving... Outcomes for children in residential care homes

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

Cura Services' move to a more therapeutic kind of care has been key when caring for children who are often traumatised by past experiences

Play spaces afforded more protection under guidance

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

The government is introducing tougher planning guidelines for local authorities to protect the use of open spaces for children's play.

NCB Now: News from Wales

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

Celebrating a decade of disability work at Children in Wales

NCB Now: DCSF consults children on policies

16 March 2010, Children & Young People Now

In the last weekend of February, the Department for Children, Schools and Families' (DCSF) Children and Youth Board had their latest residential meeting, where the group of 25 young people...