CYP Now - Labour works to plug policy holes with general election a year away

An overarching vision for children and young people, an improvement body for schools and children's services, and a revamp of neglect laws are some of the areas the Labour Party needs to address over the next 12 months.

On 30 March 2015, parliament will be dissolved, battle lines will be drawn and the general election campaign will get under way.

In the 12 months until then, focus within the children and young people's sector will increasingly turn to what the Labour Party plans to do if it returns to power after five years in opposition.

After a slow start as Labour leader, Ed Miliband has, over the past 18 months, overseen the development of a number of children and young people-specific policies that have been largely well received.

Principal among these are two headline-grabbing early years initiatives - extending free childcare for threeand four-year-olds from 15 to 25 hours and introducing a primary childcare guarantee, giving parents access to wraparound care via schools from 8am to 6pm.

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