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Youth voice finds a new home

Analysis

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

| CYP Now

National Youth Agency steps up to run the UK Youth Parliament after collapse of previous host body.

UK’s first secure school opens after years of debate and delay

Analysis

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

| CYP Now

CYP Now takes a tour of the Oasis Restore secure school with its state-of-the-art facilities to learn how a new holistic offer for youth justice is designed to shift settings away from punishment towards rehabilitation.

Pathways funding axe: What next for children's services leadership training?

Analysis

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Frontline chief warns DfE decision to end support for leadership training scheme will harm workforce.

Early SEND support needs going unmet

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

A shortage of special needs support in the early years is increasing pressure on childcare providers and schools, new reports reveal.

Key children’s services challenges to shape next ADCS presidency

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

The new president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services Andy Smith identifies tackling social care reforms, workforce pressures and demand for SEND support as priorities for his year in office.

Call to put schools at the heart of mental health and wellbeing plan

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Report by think-tank says next government should expand the reach and remit of mental health support teams so they provide advice and guidance to all pupils to prevent emerging problems from escalating.

Expansion of PAVA ignites debate on youth custody force and restraint

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

The UK government’s consideration of expanding the use of PAVA spray – a chemical irritant legally used in adult prisons – into child establishments has ignited a contentious debate.

British Youth Council: five factors behind demise of youth voice stalwart

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

The British Youth Council had been at the forefront of the youth movement for 75 years, but in recent times was unable to weather a perfect storm of internal and external pressures that led to it becoming unsustainable.

Review highlights best practice to shape the future of youth work

Analysis

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

| CYP Now

MPs canvass the sector to identify youth work practice models that put trusted relationships between young people and practitioners at their core and which should be championed by the next government.

National roadmap to ACE recovery

Analysis

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

| CYP Now

Report for MPs says government must lead fight on tackling harm of adverse childhood experiences.

Child-first coaching to support young people’s mental health

Analysis

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

| CYP Now

A group of charities, policymakers and educators with a passion for using sport to improve the health and wellbeing of children are supporting efforts for physical activity to be socially prescribed through primary care networks.

Secure homes need makeover

Analysis

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

| CYP Now

Government funding will boost secure children’s homes places but experts call for wholesale changes.

Scandal over advert reveals care leavers’ acute housing challenges

Analysis

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

| CYP Now

Advert by social housing provider specifying ‘no care leavers’ apply highlights difficulties many young people leaving care face to find a home and why a local authority guarantor scheme is needed, experts say.

Tackling decline in London pupil numbers

Analysis

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

| CYP Now

A fall in children attending London schools is putting pressure on budgets and experts warn it could impact wider community support.

Childcare staff bonus concerns

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

Although £1,000 incentive payment is welcomed some say it won’t tackle sector’s retention problems.

SEND support flaws exposed

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

Rising appeals over provision and furore over councillors’ remarks reveal wider system problems.

Improving agencies’ response to tackling serious youth violence

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

Review of cases in the London borough of Croydon highlights how safeguarding organisations need to work with vulnerable children as early as possible to reduce the risk of them getting involved in violent incidents

Changes to turn tide on adoption decline

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

A more inclusive system that better meets children’s, adopters’ and birth families’ needs can reverse fall in adoptions, says expert.

Education is key to tackling rise in child harmful sexual behaviour

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

You only have to take a brief glance through the Everyone’s Invited list of UK schools where pupils have experienced sexual harassment and assault to understand that child-on-child sexual abuse is rife.

Latest figures highlight council youth services at a crossroads

Analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| CYP Now

YMCA analysis of trends in local authority youth services spending and provision show improvement in all measures, but experts are divided on whether it represents a short-term trend or signs of a wider recovery.

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Youth voice finds a new home

UK’s first secure school opens after years of debate and delay

Pathways funding axe: What next for children's services leadership training?

Early SEND support needs going unmet

Key children’s services challenges to shape next ADCS presidency

Call to put schools at the heart of mental health and wellbeing plan

Expansion of PAVA ignites debate on youth custody force and restraint

British Youth Council: five factors behind demise of youth voice stalwart

Review highlights best practice to shape the future of youth work

National roadmap to ACE recovery

Child-first coaching to support young people’s mental health

Secure homes need makeover

Scandal over advert reveals care leavers’ acute housing challenges

Tackling decline in London pupil numbers

Childcare staff bonus concerns

SEND support flaws exposed

Improving agencies’ response to tackling serious youth violence

Changes to turn tide on adoption decline

Education is key to tackling rise in child harmful sexual behaviour

Latest figures highlight council youth services at a crossroads

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