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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.

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.

Children's charity group voices alarm over lobbying bill

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Children England has attacked the government's "flawed" lobbying bill, warning it could become law without proper scrutiny and curtail important campaigning work by children's charities.

Consultancy boss voices concerns on government's Doncaster blueprint

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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

| CYP Now

Government plans to strip Doncaster Council of responsibility for children's services risk affecting the quality of services, the head of a private consulting company has said.

Children & Young People Now Awards 2013: the shortlist

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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

| CYP Now

We are delighted to unveil the shortlist for the 2013 Children & Young People Now Awards.

Doncaster sounds warning over 'high-risk' government proposals

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Doncaster Council has warned that government-endorsed proposals to take away its responsibility for children's social care services and hand it to an independent trust are "high-risk" and "unclear".

Children's sector leaders outline improvement agenda

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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

| CYP Now

Local government leaders have set out their blueprint for the future of sector-led improvement in children's services.

Councils face £1bn funding shortfall

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Cuts to children's services over the next three years could be even deeper than feared after the government published new figures to show local authority funding will be less than expected.

Tickell to leave Action for Children

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Monday, August 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Dame Clare Tickell is to leave Action for Children after nine years as the charity's chief executive.

Doncaster takeover ‘could damage children's services'

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Monday, August 5, 2013

| CYP Now

The government's plans to take Doncaster's children's social care out of council control could harm service improvement, experts have suggested.

Improvement body to continue without director

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Monday, July 29, 2013

| CYP Now

The Children's Improvement Board (CIB) will not be led by a director in the future as a result of government funding cuts, CYP Now can reveal.

Norfolk vows to tackle "legacy of underachievement" in schools

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Friday, July 26, 2013

| CYP Now

Norfolk County Council has pledged to strengthen its support for local schools in response to an Ofsted report that slated its work in the area as "ineffective".

Children England to develop campaigning focus

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Children England is to give its members a central role in drawing up its policy manifesto for children, young people and families for the next general election.

Doncaster to be stripped of children's social care responsibility

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's services in Doncaster are to be split off from local authority control and instead run by an independent trust as part of a radical plan to turn the troubled department around.

CYP Now Awards extends deadline to 11 July

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

| CYP Now

The deadline to enter the 2013 Children & Young People Now Awards has been extended by one week, to Thursday 11 July. Entries must be received before 12 noon that day.

MPs raise fears over impact of school places shortfall

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Friday, June 28, 2013

| CYP Now

The education of pupils in some of the most deprived areas of England could suffer if there is insufficient government funding to meet the growing demand for school places over the next year.

Birmingham seeks £340m in education savings

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

| CYP Now

The UK's most populous local authority wants views on how to slash a further £340m from its education budget by 2016/17.

Charity launches tool to track work with troubled families

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Family Action has developed a tool to help councils track their performance in supporting families through the Troubled Families programme.

Crime check change could save services millions

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Friday, June 21, 2013

| CYP Now

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has launched a criminal records update service that could save children's services millions of pounds a year.

Doncaster brings in Impower to overhaul children's services

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Doncaster Council has appointed consultants Impower and Penna to help it turn around its failing children's services department.

Voluntary sector consortium becomes DfE strategic partner

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Friday, May 24, 2013

| CYP Now

A consortium of charities has become the Department for Education's voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) strategic partner.

LGA slams council inspection framework

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted's new inspection framework for councils has been branded "inappropriate and inadequate" by the Local Government Association (LGA).

Payment-by-results cuts demand on youth justice services

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

| CYP Now

Incentive payment programmes being trialled in youth justice have reduced demand on offender services in their first year of operation, new figures show.

Troubled families initiative misses first-year target

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils have missed a first-year target for the number of families they worked with under the government's flagship troubled families initiative.

LGA fears children's centre closures if cuts continue

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Friday, May 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's centres, libraries and sports centres will all be at risk of closure if central government makes significant further cuts to council budgets, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

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Educational psychology services feel strain of budget cuts

Universal children's centres face extinction, MPs are warned

Children's charity group voices alarm over lobbying bill

Consultancy boss voices concerns on government's Doncaster blueprint

Children & Young People Now Awards 2013: the shortlist

Doncaster sounds warning over 'high-risk' government proposals

Children's sector leaders outline improvement agenda

Councils face £1bn funding shortfall

Tickell to leave Action for Children

Doncaster takeover ‘could damage children's services'

Improvement body to continue without director

Norfolk vows to tackle "legacy of underachievement" in schools

Children England to develop campaigning focus

Doncaster to be stripped of children's social care responsibility

CYP Now Awards extends deadline to 11 July

MPs raise fears over impact of school places shortfall

Birmingham seeks £340m in education savings

Charity launches tool to track work with troubled families

Crime check change could save services millions

Doncaster brings in Impower to overhaul children's services

Voluntary sector consortium becomes DfE strategic partner

LGA slams council inspection framework

Payment-by-results cuts demand on youth justice services

Troubled families initiative misses first-year target

LGA fears children's centre closures if cuts continue

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