Children and Young People Now Blogs

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Biting the Ballot

It’s a perennial problem, engaging young people in politics. One of the first challenges is getting...

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Scooter solution to school non-attendance

A family doesn't have anywhere to live near their child's primary school. Perhaps something happened...

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Time to listen: Independent advocacy services in the child protection process

The horrific abuse and organised exploitation of young women and girls in Oxford has once again raised...

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Putting the fire behind early intervention

It’s been a busy time for champions of early intervention in children’s services. On 15th April...

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Pinching yourself about poverty

Picture the parliamentarians gathered amid pomp and ceremony for yesterday’s Queen’s Speech. What...

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Protect children from forced destitution

This week (23 April), former children’s minister Sarah Teather MP, with support from a number of cross-party...

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School holidays

Michael Gove is right – basing school terms on the 19th century agricultural and industrial calendars...

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Predicting school places – the big challenge for local authorities

Families in many areas are reportedly facing the worrying prospect of a shortage of primary school places....

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MMR and homeopathy

I'm sure we are all really pleased that the evidence of the reduction of measles herd immunity in Wales...

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Inspired by v

OK, I admit it, I wasn’t a great fan of v when it was founded. I feared this would be another example...