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Tory Party Conference: Former minister bemoans 'battles' with NHS over CAMHS funding

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has had "battles" with the NHS to ensure money set aside for transforming children's mental health services is not spent on other things, a former health minister has revealed.

Poor parents struggle to access children's centres, warns charity

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Friday, September 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Disadvantaged families are struggling to access children's centre services due to cuts from early intervention budgets, the Children's Society has warned.

Educational psychology services feel strain of budget cuts

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

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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

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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.

Autism charity wins youth participation grant

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

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Ambitious about Autism has been awarded a £528,000 government grant to encourage youth participation among 16- to 25-year-olds.

Councils wrongly picking up bill for academy conversion, claims LGA

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Friday, December 5, 2014

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Local authorities are "unfairly" having to pay millions of pounds a year to convert schools to academy status, the Local Government Association (LGA) has claimed.

British Youth Council calls for pre-2010 funding levels for youth services

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

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Funding levels for youth services must be restored to pre-austerity levels if young people are to thrive, says the British Youth Council (BYC).

Timpson reveals initial action to tackle children's services 'failures'

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has unveiled a raft of immediate actions the government will take to tackle poor standards across "failing" children's services departments.

Universal children's centres face extinction, MPs are warned

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

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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.

Government launches funding for alternative models of youth services

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Monday, July 21, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has launched a £500,000 fund to help councils set up alternative models of delivering youth services such as mutual and private partnerships.

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.

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

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Friday, December 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Report blames sexual grooming of young girls on police failings; MPs call for fairer children's palliative care funding; and a youth offending service in Teeside wins praise, all in the news today.

Funding for Birmingham recovery plan falls short of estimate

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Birmingham City Council will spend just two-thirds of the extra £140m in funding that was originally estimated would be needed to turn around its troubled children's services.

Meagre pay could spark nursery staff shortage

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Friday, July 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Low rates of pay could trigger a future shortage of nursery staff and undermine the government's expansion of free childcare provision, researchers have warned.

Spending Review: Government to reduce councils' school role

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

| CYP Now

Funding for school support and improvement budgets is to be slashed by £600m as the government looks to greatly reduce councils' education role.

Free childcare expansion based on 'outdated' funding figures, claims Alliance chief

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Friday, June 10, 2016

| CYP Now

The government's expansion of free childcare is underpinned by outdated figures and "little more than guess work", the chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance has said.

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.

Charity warns of cuts 'crisis' in children's mental health services

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Saturday, June 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Mental health experts have warned of a national crisis for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) after it emerged that more than three quarters of NHS commissioning bodies have cut or frozen budgets.

David Laws confirms cut to council school support grant

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities will find it harder to help struggling schools improve as a result of a 25 per cent cut in a government education grant next year, council leaders have warned.

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

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Friday, August 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has announced how much each council will receive this year to extend support up to age 21 for young people in foster care, but concerns remain that the money is not enough.

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.

Youth employment scheme worth £60m launches in Scotland

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Monday, February 15, 2016

| CYP Now

A £60m programme to help young people in a deprived part of Scotland into employment has been launched as a result of European funding.

Psychological therapies programme to be extended

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Monday, July 29, 2013

| CYP Now

An expansion of the children and young people's psychological therapies programme will see more than half of all under-19s in England having access to it by the end of the year.

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.

Social action fund opens for bids

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Monday, June 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Uniformed youth organisations are being urged to apply for £10m worth of Treasury funding to deliver more social action opportunities.

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Tory Party Conference: Former minister bemoans 'battles' with NHS over CAMHS funding

Poor parents struggle to access children's centres, warns charity

Educational psychology services feel strain of budget cuts

LGA warns over impact of council funding cuts

Autism charity wins youth participation grant

Councils wrongly picking up bill for academy conversion, claims LGA

British Youth Council calls for pre-2010 funding levels for youth services

Timpson reveals initial action to tackle children's services 'failures'

Universal children's centres face extinction, MPs are warned

Government launches funding for alternative models of youth services

Analysis backs drive for youth-led services

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

Funding for Birmingham recovery plan falls short of estimate

Meagre pay could spark nursery staff shortage

Spending Review: Government to reduce councils' school role

Free childcare expansion based on 'outdated' funding figures, claims Alliance chief

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

Charity warns of cuts 'crisis' in children's mental health services

David Laws confirms cut to council school support grant

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Youth employment scheme worth £60m launches in Scotland

Psychological therapies programme to be extended

Gove announces 261 schools to receive building money

Social action fund opens for bids

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