Advice & Guidance In Depth
Working Together to Safeguard Children: key revisions explained
It has been two years in the making, but the revised Working Together guidance has finally been published. The new, streamlined version contains crucial information for all those with a role in safeguarding children
Skills for the Job: Supporting independent living
Living alone for the first time can be a challenging experience for young people, but support to help ease the transition is out there
Mutual benefits
Public sector employees are being encouraged to take control of the services they provide and run them as mutuals. Joe Lepper looks at the experiences of those pioneering the approach in children’s services
Good Practice Case Studies
How a national scheme is plugging the gap for disadvantaged Neets
National employment charity develops scheme to plug a gap in provision for disadvantaged young people not in education, employment or training
How a scheme in Newcastle is steering young people from homelessness
The Youth Voice initiative is giving young people who have experience of homelessness the chance to learn new skills
Latest Advice & Guidance News
- Child maintenance changes threaten children's wellbeing, warns charity
- Unison issues manifesto for youth
- Government considers boost to National Careers Service
- CYP Now 2013 Awards open for entry
- New body set to address careers advice in schools
- Daily roundup: Missing children, child protection, and youth unemployment
- MP backs young apprentices' youth Budget
- YouthNet to drop volunteering website
Advice & Guidance Comment
Children and Families Bill must heed children’s views
The Children and Families Bill, which began its second reading in parliament last week, focuses in large part on the most vulnerable children in society.
DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers
In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department’s former ministers.
The Children & Young People Now Awards represent the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK. They recognise the most innovative and effective work in transforming young lives and building a better society. Too much of this work goes...