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Timpson announces plans to improve young carer identification

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  • Thursday, March 9, 2017
  • | CYP Now
The Department for Education is drawing up plans to make it easier to identify children and young people who have caring responsibilities, with a cross-government strategy due to be published in the summer, children's minister Edward Timpson has confirmed.

Government to make SRE compulsory from 2019

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  • Wednesday, March 1, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Sex and relationships education (SRE) will be made compulsory in all secondary schools, while all children in primary schools will be taught about healthy relationships, but not sex, the government has announced.

Brexit 'risks delaying' push for compulsory SRE, warns Creasy

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  • Monday, February 13, 2017
  • | CYP Now
The Brexit process risks taking up so much parliamentary time that unless legislation to make sex and relationships education (SRE) compulsory is pushed through now, it could be years before another opportunity emerges, Labour MP Stella Creasy has warned.

SEN reforms: Fewer than one in five children transferred

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  • Thursday, May 26, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Fewer than one in five children with special educational needs (SEN) have been successfully transferred onto an education, health and care (EHC) plan as part of government efforts to transform the system, it has emerged.

Tories to include fox hunting in National Citizen Service

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  • Wednesday, April 1, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Fox hunting will be legalised so that it can be added to the list of activities for David Cameron's flagship National Citizen Service (NCS) programme if the Conservatives win next month's general election, CYP Now has learned.