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					<title><![CDATA[Children and Young Persons Bill is passed]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Children and Young Persons Bill had its third reading in the House of Commons last night, during which MPs debated several significant amendments.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Bill fails to protect vulnerable children, says Tory]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The shadow minister for children has attacked the government's refusal to ensure that local authorities have responsibility for all children and young people in care who enter custody.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Private fosterer registration scheme blocked]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The government declined to back proposals for registration of private fosterers in the Children and Young Persons Bill yesterday.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Charities disappointed at delay on smacking ban decision]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The government angered supporters of the smacking ban yesterday by deciding to bypass a discussion of it in the House of Commons.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[TV ad banned for condoning teenage pregnancy]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A TV advert for the Oasis soft drink has been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) after a number of complaints from viewers.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[People Power: Keep the Promise rally organised by End Child Poverty]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last weekend's Keep the Promise rally - organised by the End Child Poverty campaign - lived up to expectations as 10,000 people marched through central London, calling on the government to keep its promise and put an end to child poverty in the UK by 2020.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Training to support ethnic adoptions]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Post-Adoption Centre has launched a training pack for professionals to help prepare and support families caring for black and ethnic minority children.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Call to delay Scottish sexual activity law]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scotland's commissioner for children and young people has urged the Scottish Parliament to delay a planned change in the law that would mean criminalising young teenage girls for sexual activity with boys of the same age group.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Gaps remain in private fostering]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Children in private foster care are more positive about their placements than they were two years ago.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Bill will fail to address care problems]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Children and Young Person's Bill, which begins its third reading in Parliament today (8 October), fails to tackle some of the most entrenched problems facing children in care, experts have warned.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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