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LGA warns over impact of council funding cuts

Monday, May 12, 2014

| CYP Now

Services for children and young people look set to bear the brunt of local authority funding cuts over the next two years, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Universal children's centres face extinction, MPs are warned

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Children centres that offer services to all children and parents in the community will soon be consigned to the history books in many parts of the country, local government and children's services leaders have told MPs.

Devon children's centres face closure threat

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's centre closures are being considered in Devon as the county council looks to make £1.2m of cuts to the service.

Swindon considers halving number of children's centres

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Swindon Borough Council wants to slash £770,000 from its £2m children's centres budget, just a year after cutting the service's spend by £380,000.

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's services chiefs are being called upon to share information about how their departments can deliver effective services while managing challenging budgets.

NCB estimates cuts of up to £405m for children's charities

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

| CYP Now

Children and young people's charities face funding cuts of almost £405m over the five years up to 2015/16, the National Children's Bureau (NCB) has estimated.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

Children's charities unimpressed by lobbying bill changes

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Monday, January 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Government concessions that water down proposed new restrictions on charities' campaigning work do not go far enough, children's voluntary sector figures have said.

Greenwich outsources all its children's centres

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The Royal Borough of Greenwich has selected a mixture of schools, charities and a leisure trust to run its 24 children's centres from April this year.

Kensington & Chelsea outlines vision for tri-borough children's services

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Monday, January 9, 2012

| CYP Now

Politicians in Kensington & Chelsea have outlined their vision of standards for children's services for a new combined department across three authorities, stating that outstanding inspection ratings are expected.

Derbyshire children's centres face closure threat

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Derbyshire County Council looks set to close seven children's centres in a bid to save £1.1m a year.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

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Friday, October 24, 2014

| CYP Now

A lack of authority-wide support for change and an "arcane" IT system were key reasons for slow progress in improving children's services in Somerset, the council's former director of children's services (DCS) has claimed.

Providers warn they cannot subsidise Lib Dem childcare expansion plans

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Liberal Democrat plans to expand free childcare places to include one-year-olds could be too costly and risk leaving the early years sector unsustainable, nursery leaders have warned.

Liverpool facing 'tough choices' on children's centres cuts

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Liverpool City Council will slash its children's centres budget by 72 per cent by 2016, the authority has confirmed.

Local authorities prepare for cuts of up to eight per cent next year

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

| CYP Now

Councils are to be hit with spending cuts of up to eight per cent next year, under plans set out in the provisional local government finance settlement.

Daycare Trust and Family and Parenting Institute to merge

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

| CYP Now

The Family and Parenting Institute and the Daycare Trust have announced their intention to merge, claiming the move will strengthen their work by pooling resources and expertise.

Council proposes closing all children's centres to save £600k

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Friday, December 4, 2015

| CYP Now

A council is preparing to close its remaining children's centres in order to save money in 2016/17.

Council plans to cut early help services by £4m

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Monday, September 19, 2016

| CYP Now

A council has announced plans to cut early help funding by £4m one the next four years, with 11 children's centres at risk.

Council budget cuts ‘put services at risk'

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

| CYP Now

Charities and councils have warned that children's services will be endangered by plans to cut local government budgets by 2.3 per cent between 2014/15 and 2015/16.

Unison figures reveal sharp fall in children's centres funding

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities have closed or merged nearly 300 children's centres over the last four years after making tens of millions of pounds of budget cuts, research by the union Unison has found.

Morgan reveals council powers to tackle extremism in childcare

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Friday, August 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities are to be given powers to stop funding for early years providers with links to extremism, the Education Secretary has announced.

Two-year-old offer costs nurseries £7,000 a year

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

| CYP Now

Early years settings providing free childcare places for disadvantaged two-year-olds are losing on average nearly £7,000 a year because of underfunding of the scheme, research suggests.

Schools struggle to deliver free childcare for two-year-olds

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Schools providing free childcare places to two-year-olds are struggling to access funding and training, government-commissioned research has found.

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LGA warns over impact of council funding cuts

Universal children's centres face extinction, MPs are warned

Devon children's centres face closure threat

Swindon considers halving number of children's centres

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

NCB estimates cuts of up to £405m for children's charities

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Children's charities unimpressed by lobbying bill changes

Greenwich outsources all its children's centres

Kensington & Chelsea outlines vision for tri-borough children's services

Derbyshire children's centres face closure threat

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

Providers warn they cannot subsidise Lib Dem childcare expansion plans

Liverpool facing 'tough choices' on children's centres cuts

Local authorities prepare for cuts of up to eight per cent next year

Daycare Trust and Family and Parenting Institute to merge

Council proposes closing all children's centres to save £600k

Council plans to cut early help services by £4m

Council budget cuts ‘put services at risk'

Unison figures reveal sharp fall in children's centres funding

Morgan reveals council powers to tackle extremism in childcare

Two-year-old offer costs nurseries £7,000 a year

Schools struggle to deliver free childcare for two-year-olds

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