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Conservative conference: Tories must end 'Broken Britain' slur, says children's commissioner

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

| CYP Now

The children's commissioner for England has issued a plea to the Conservative Party to stop branding the country as "Broken Britain".

Better joint working needed to stop young people falling into cycle of crime

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

| CYP Now

A strategy is needed to improve joint working between government departments and public services to rehabilitate young people with multiple needs and help them escape a life in the criminal justice system, a charity has claimed.

Young people looking for housing face negative stereotypes

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Monday, November 17, 2008

| CYP Now

Young people find it difficult to find housing because of negative stereotypes, according to a report out today (18 November).

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

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Monday, April 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Rochdale faces legal action over care comments; no further action against former youth police and crime commissioner, and half of youth service jobs to go in Warwickshire, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Junk food, child porn and social work ethics

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Food firms accused of bypassing ad rules, government summit to tackle child porn online, and a code of ethics for social workers, all in the news today.

Specialist youth work roles under threat, claims NYA

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Friday, October 12, 2012

| CYP Now

Cuts to budgets and restructuring of provision have resulted in fewer specialist youth work roles, with staff being asked to carry out functions outside their area of expertise, it has been claimed.

Committee urges stronger powers for children's commissioner

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Monday, December 10, 2012

| CYP Now

England's children's commissioner should be given stronger powers, while the title of the role should be changed to include "young people", an influential group of MPs and peers has said.

Pledge to retain visibility of early intervention spending is 'tiny concession'

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Friday, January 4, 2013

| CYP Now

The government's decision to compel local authorities to reveal their early intervention expenditure by publishing a funding profile has been attacked as a "meaningless exercise".

Loughton voices 'concern' at lack of plans for children's services

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Monday, June 19, 2017

| CYP Now

Former children's minister Tim Loughton has described an apparent lack of firm government plans to improve services for children and young people as "concerning".

Young people with mental health problems say stigma has led them to 'give up'

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

| CYP Now

A quarter of young people with mental health problems say the stigma attached to their illness has made them want to "give up on life", according to a survey by the Time to Change campaign.

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.

Children and Families Act receives royal assent

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

| CYP Now

The Children and Families Act has received royal assent, ushering in a raft of changes including adoption reforms, greater protection for vulnerable children and shared parental leave.

Teachers warn Clegg over summer camp scheme

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

| CYP Now

Teachers have criticised Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's plans for a 50m summer camp programme for disadvantaged children before they start secondary school.

Riots panel calls for extension of troubled families programme

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

| CYP Now

An independent panel, set up following last summer's riots, has called for the government to give young unemployed people a guarantee of work and significantly expand its programme for troubled families.

Two-year-old entitlement to be funded by cut to Early Intervention Grant

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Friday, September 28, 2012

| CYP Now

Hundreds of millions of pounds allocated to fund free nursery places will be deducted from the Early Intervention Grant, reducing local authority children's services budgets across the country, it has emerged.

Leeds says job cuts will not hit frontline children's services

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

| CYP Now

Leeds City Council has insisted that frontline services for children and young people will not be seriously affected by recent job cuts forced upon it by the recession.

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

| CYP Now

Nearly six months since professor Alexis Jay's report revealed the extent of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, the government's troubled families tsar Louise Casey's has pulled no punches in her assessment of how the authority has fared since.

New Rotherham children's chief slams schools over continuing failure to tackle CSE

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Friday, March 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Rotherham's director of children's services has condemned an "astonishing" lack of engagement by schools to tackle child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the borough while urging a greater focus and respect for youth work.

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

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Monday, June 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Charities working with children and young people have lost more than £150m of government funding in the past year, it has emerged.

Lack of support to blame for care leaver housing problems, report finds

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Monday, September 21, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services departments are not doing enough to secure good quality housing support for care leavers and other vulnerable teenagers, The Children's Society has said.

Troubled Families programme ‘wastes millions of pounds'

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

| CYP Now

The government's flagship Troubled Families initiative is working with the wrong families in the wrong way and is likely to be wasting millions of pounds, a report has claimed.

Latest Covid-19 guidance for children’s social care, education, early years and youth work providers

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

| CYP Now

Services supporting vulnerable children and young people face changes to Covid-19 guidance as more restrictions lift across the UK.

Online Safety Bill: Five key measures aimed at protecting children

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Friday, March 18, 2022

| CYP Now

One of the main aims of the government’s Online Safety Bill is to stop children from accessing inappropriate and harmful content, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Easing of Covid-19 restrictions: what new rules mean for children's sector

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Monday, May 17, 2021

| CYP Now

Some Covid-19 restrictions across England have lifted allowing more freedom for people across the country.

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils have missed a first year target for numbers of families they worked with in the first year of the government's high profile troubled families initiative, it has emerged.

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Conservative conference: Tories must end 'Broken Britain' slur, says children's commissioner

Better joint working needed to stop young people falling into cycle of crime

Young people looking for housing face negative stereotypes

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

Daily roundup: Junk food, child porn and social work ethics

Specialist youth work roles under threat, claims NYA

Committee urges stronger powers for children's commissioner

Pledge to retain visibility of early intervention spending is 'tiny concession'

Loughton voices 'concern' at lack of plans for children's services

Young people with mental health problems say stigma has led them to 'give up'

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

Children and Families Act receives royal assent

Teachers warn Clegg over summer camp scheme

Riots panel calls for extension of troubled families programme

Two-year-old entitlement to be funded by cut to Early Intervention Grant

Leeds says job cuts will not hit frontline children's services

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

New Rotherham children's chief slams schools over continuing failure to tackle CSE

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

Lack of support to blame for care leaver housing problems, report finds

Troubled Families programme ‘wastes millions of pounds'

Latest Covid-19 guidance for children’s social care, education, early years and youth work providers

Online Safety Bill: Five key measures aimed at protecting children

Easing of Covid-19 restrictions: what new rules mean for children's sector

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

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