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Online support services 'less effective' than face-to-face sessions

Thursday, April 23, 2020

| CYP Now

Moving intervention services for children online during the coronavirus crisis may result in disadvantaged young people receiving less effective support, new research has warned.

Coronavirus: Five key resources for professionals

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Friday, March 20, 2020

| CYP Now

Children’s charities, organisations and workers' unions have issued advice to professionals working to support children amid the coronavirus pandemic.

General Election: Conservative manifesto pledges £14bn for schools and crackdown on youth violence

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Monday, November 25, 2019

| CYP Now

Boris Johnson has pledged to invest £14bn into the education system and vowed to enforce tougher discipline in schools ahead of the general election.

London Mayor ploughs £4.7m into tackling exclusions and violence in schools

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

| CYP Now

Schools in areas of London blighted by youth violence are to be handed £4.7m to prevent children from being excluded and to better protect them after hometime.

Prize fund challenges young people to become tech trailblazers

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

| CYP Now

Young people from disadvantaged areas are being encouraged to submit practical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to issues such as climate change, health and wellbeing as part of a £25,000 prize fund.

Base police officers in schools, urges children's commissioner

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Monday, September 9, 2019

| CYP Now

Police officers and youth workers should be based in schools to help protect pupils from violence, according to the children's commissioner for England.

Base police officers in schools, urges children's commissioner

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Monday, September 9, 2019

| CYP Now

Police officers and youth workers should be based in schools to help protect pupils from violence, according to the children's commissioner for England.

Sector responds to Chancellor's public spending announcements

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

| CYP Now

Sector representatives from across services for children and young people have given a mixed reaction to the Chancellor's funding announcements.

Sector responds to Chancellor's public spending announcements

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

| CYP Now

Sector representatives from across services for children and young people have given a mixed reaction to the Chancellor's funding announcements.

Spending Round delivers extra funds for children and young people's services

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

| CYP Now

Councils will have access to £1.5bn extra for social care from next year, the Chancellor has announced in today's Spending Round, but he provided no detail on cash for children's services.

Spending Round delivers extra funds for children and young people's services

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

| CYP Now

Councils will have access to £1.5bn extra for social care from next year, the Chancellor has announced in today's Spending Round, but he provided no detail on cash for children's services.

Chancellor announces one-year budget round as Spending Review shelved due to Brexit

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Friday, August 9, 2019

| CYP Now

The government is to undertake a one-year spending round for public services in 2020-21, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has announced.

Initiative to cut rate of BAME young people in youth custody

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Monday, July 29, 2019

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has launched an initiative to reduce disproportionate numbers of black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) people in youth custody.

Disadvantaged children missing out on out-of-school activities

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Friday, July 19, 2019

| CYP Now

Extra-curricular activities, particularly music and sport, are three times more likely to be accessed by children from high-income households than their less well-off peers, a study has shown.

Legal duty on public bodies to tackle knife crime together

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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

| CYP Now

Public sector organisations will be legally bound to work together to tackle serious violence including knife crime under a new duty announced by the government.

Children as young as seven exploited by county lines gangs

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Friday, July 5, 2019

| CYP Now

Children as young as seven are being used to move drugs for organised gangs, according to new research from The Children's Society.

DWP youth initiative 'fails to help most disadvantaged'

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Monday, July 1, 2019

| CYP Now

Campaigners have criticised the government's Youth Obligation Support Programme over high drop-out rates and increased risk of benefit sanctions among the country's most disadvantaged young people.

Changes to post-16 qualifications 'risk to disadvantaged young people'

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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders are warning that plans to streamline post-16 education qualifications will negatively impact young people in disadvantaged areas and those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Lessons aim to reduce knife crime over summer

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Thursday, June 6, 2019

| CYP Now

Anti-knife crime lessons are being delivered in schools before the start of the summer holidays, the Home Office has announced.

Fall in DCS turnover and new appointments

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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

| CYP Now

Only 17 new director of children's services (DCS) appointments were made last year, the second lowest number recorded in the 12-year history of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS).

Well-qualified young people held back by disadvantage, study finds

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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

| CYP Now

Disadvantaged young people are twice as likely to be not in education, employment or training (Neet) in early adulthood - and inequalities remain even if they are qualified to the same level as their more privileged peers, according to a study published today.

Young people to develop youth charter with government

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Thursday, April 11, 2019

| CYP Now

A youth charter aiming to strengthen and co-ordinate national policy is to be developed with young people, the minister for civil society has announced.

'Boost youth employment initiatives' to tackle knife crime, charities claim

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Monday, March 18, 2019

| CYP Now

The government must target investment towards employment-focused youth services to address crime at its roots, sector leaders have urged.

Ofsted urges support for schools to fight knife crime

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

| CYP Now

Stronger multi-agency partnerships are needed to support schools to deal with knife crime, according to new research from Ofsted.

Call to improve support for wider children's workforce

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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

| CYP Now

The government needs to put in place a national strategy to address failures in support for the wider children's workforce, according to children's services bosses.

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Online support services 'less effective' than face-to-face sessions

Coronavirus: Five key resources for professionals

General Election: Conservative manifesto pledges £14bn for schools and crackdown on youth violence

London Mayor ploughs £4.7m into tackling exclusions and violence in schools

Prize fund challenges young people to become tech trailblazers

Base police officers in schools, urges children's commissioner

Base police officers in schools, urges children's commissioner

Sector responds to Chancellor's public spending announcements

Sector responds to Chancellor's public spending announcements

Spending Round delivers extra funds for children and young people's services

Spending Round delivers extra funds for children and young people's services

Chancellor announces one-year budget round as Spending Review shelved due to Brexit

Initiative to cut rate of BAME young people in youth custody

Disadvantaged children missing out on out-of-school activities

Legal duty on public bodies to tackle knife crime together

Children as young as seven exploited by county lines gangs

DWP youth initiative 'fails to help most disadvantaged'

Changes to post-16 qualifications 'risk to disadvantaged young people'

Lessons aim to reduce knife crime over summer

Fall in DCS turnover and new appointments

Well-qualified young people held back by disadvantage, study finds

Young people to develop youth charter with government

'Boost youth employment initiatives' to tackle knife crime, charities claim

Ofsted urges support for schools to fight knife crime

Call to improve support for wider children's workforce

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