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Educational psychology services feel strain of budget cuts

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils across England have cut funding for educational psychology services by five per cent over the last three years, figures show.

LGA warns over impact of council funding cuts

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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.

Analysis backs drive for youth-led services

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Monday, November 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people and communities should be given the authority to decide the shape of youth work services in their area, a study has found.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

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Monday, January 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Sweeping reform of the youth justice system is necessary to prevent hundreds of children being "needlessly" criminalised and sentenced to custody, according to a think-tank.

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.

Gove announces 261 schools to receive building money

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced that fewer than half of those who applied for a share of £2bn funding to renovate or rebuild run-down schools have been successful.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

CYP Now investigation: Play services decimated as funding slashed

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly a third of local authorities in England have closed play facilities as a result of spending on play services over the past three years being slashed by 39 per cent, an investigation by CYP Now has revealed.

Labour considers witholding cash from schools if young people become Neet

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Monday, March 3, 2014

| CYP Now

A proportion of schools' funding should be dependent on pupils' progress post-16, a group of experts has recommended to the Labour Party.

£200m education funding cut threatens accountability, council leaders warn

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Friday, July 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Government plans to cut school budgets by £200m will damage councils' ability to hold schools to account and help those that are struggling to improve, council leaders have warned.

Government urged to underwrite social impact bonds

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

| CYP Now

The government should guarantee private investments in social impact bonds to encourage more private funding in the third sector, a charity finance expert has said.

Government will not step in to protect youth services, Loughton admits

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Monday, October 24, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's minister Tim Loughton has revealed the government has no plans to intervene with local authority services for young people despite 28 authorities not providing spending plans for youth work.

Bradford scales back youth cuts

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

| CYP Now

Bradford Council has scaled back its planned cuts to youth services following an outcry and campaign by local young people.

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.

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Educational psychology services feel strain of budget cuts

LGA warns over impact of council funding cuts

Universal children's centres face extinction, MPs are warned

Analysis backs drive for youth-led services

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Gove announces 261 schools to receive building money

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

CYP Now investigation: Play services decimated as funding slashed

Labour considers witholding cash from schools if young people become Neet

£200m education funding cut threatens accountability, council leaders warn

Government urged to underwrite social impact bonds

Government will not step in to protect youth services, Loughton admits

Bradford scales back youth cuts

Greenwich outsources all its children's centres

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