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Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

Friday, March 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.

Third of professionals work with children who 'go hungry' daily

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Monday, February 25, 2013

| CYP Now

A third of children's services professionals say the young people they work with are failing to get enough to eat on a daily basis, according to a survey conducted by the Children's Food Trust.

Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Central government must urgently consult local authorities on how new "social value" laws could impact on children's services, it has been has warned.

Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Plans to redirect £150m of early intervention funding into adoption reform risk reducing frontline services for vulnerable children, the chair of the Local Government Association's (LGA) children and young people board has warned.

Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has slashed £150m from the Early Intervention Grant to plough into attempts to increase the number of adoptions in England, children's minister Edward Timpson has confirmed.

Youth Contract to help more young people

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

| CYP Now

An additional 15,000 16- and 17-year-olds are to receive help to find work or training through the Youth Contract, following a government review of the programme's "narrow" criteria.

Martin Narey receives knighthood as New Year honours recognise sector's work

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

| CYP Now

The government adoption adviser Martin Narey received a knighthood in the New Year's honors list, among more than 150 people recognised for their work with children and young people.

Committee urges stronger powers for children's commissioner

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Monday, December 10, 2012

| CYP Now

England's children's commissioner should be given stronger powers, while the title of the role should be changed to include "young people", an influential group of MPs and peers has said.

Timpson praises workforce's achievements at CYP Now Awards

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Friday, November 30, 2012

| CYP Now

Children and families minister Edward Timpson has praised the efforts of people working to improve children, young people and families' lives, at the 2012 CYP Now Awards.

Winners of the Children & Young People Now Awards 2012 announced

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Friday, November 30, 2012

| CYP Now

A literature festival for children in the care system, a film and live performance featuring poetry composed by young deaf children, and a scheme to take cricket from the village green to the inner cities, were just some of the inspiring winners of the 2012 Children & Young People Now Awards.

Children's policy ‘must not suffer' as a result of DfE job cuts

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

| CYP Now

Plans to cut 1,000 jobs at the Department for Education must not further downgrade the standing of children and young people's policy in government, professionals have warned.

4Children and LGA consortium to run Early Intervention Foundation

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

| CYP Now

A consortium led by the charity 4Children has been selected as the preferred bidder to run the first Early Intervention Foundation, the Department for Education has confirmed.

Troubled families scheme 'must extend beyond 2015'

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

| CYP Now

The government should expand the eligibility criteria for the troubled families programme and extend the initiative beyond 2015, according to leaders at Westminster Council.

Children's policy 'given too little attention' at the Department for Education

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Monday, November 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Senior staff at the Department for Education spend less time working on children and families policy than they do on matters relating to schools or colleges, a report by a cross-party group of MPs has found.

DfE announces £120m grant funding programme

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Monday, October 29, 2012

| CYP Now

A total of £120m will be made available to boost services for early years, safeguarding and the care system as part of a Department for Education grant programme, it has been announced.

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Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

Third of professionals work with children who 'go hungry' daily

Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning

Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'

Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform

Youth Contract to help more young people

Martin Narey receives knighthood as New Year honours recognise sector's work

Committee urges stronger powers for children's commissioner

Timpson praises workforce's achievements at CYP Now Awards

Winners of the Children & Young People Now Awards 2012 announced

Children's policy ‘must not suffer' as a result of DfE job cuts

4Children and LGA consortium to run Early Intervention Foundation

Troubled families scheme 'must extend beyond 2015'

Children's policy 'given too little attention' at the Department for Education

DfE announces £120m grant funding programme

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