Hilton Dawson, chair of the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners (NAPP), told CYP Now that former children's minister Beverley Hughes had promised to respond to his concerns over the academy's proposed merger with the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC). But he said they had not yet been addressed, prompting his letter to Ed Balls.
In the letter, Dawson said: "We are extremely worried that the recent decision to merge NAPP into CWDC will completely undermine the funding of our work, the independence that is crucial to the application of rigorous assessment of the sometimes cherished programmes of powerful organisations, and the promotion of world class standards, which can effectively address some of the most entrenched problems in our society.
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