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					<title><![CDATA[NSPCC's Marsh awarded for outstanding achievement at CYP Now event]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Former NSPCC chief executive Dame Mary Marsh received an award for outstanding achievement at the Children & Young People's Services Awards last night, as Children's Secretary Ed Balls praised the children's workforce.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[DCSF pledges London living wage for all staff]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Department for Children, Schools and Families has pledged to ensure all its staff and and contracted staff will receive at least the London living wage from next year.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Leicester nursery loses children's data in security breach]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Leicester council has admitted to a "serious and unacceptable breach of protocols" after a council-run nursery lost a data stick containing personal information on 80 children.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Workers to miss out on training]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Government efforts to focus on continuing professional development (CPD) will be severely restricted by funding rules, a leading early years professor has warned.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[GPs left out of requirement to co-operate with children's trusts]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Government plans to strengthen children's trusts have stopped short of extending a legal duty to ensure GPs co-operate.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Forty-one per cent of serious case reviews 'inadequate', says Ofsted]]></title>
					<link>http://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/863240/Forty-one-per-cent-serious-case-reviews-inadequate-says-Ofsted/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Forty-one per cent of serious case reviews have been judged as inadequate since April 2007, Ofsted has said.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Report finds digital toys less effective at developing literacy]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Digital resources for pre-school children are not open-ended enough to encourage the playfulness they need to develop literacy, according to academics.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Balls announces children's trusts legislation]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Children's secretary Ed Balls said yesterday (18 November) that he would introduce legislation to ensure every local authority has a children's trust board as soon as possible.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Organisations to ensure London childcare places]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Daycare Trust and company Firstcare Consultancy are working with London's local authorities to ensure they have sufficient childcare places.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Three studies published on early years practice]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The organisation set up by the government to share best practice in children's services has published three studies on early years practice.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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