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School mental health plans need an update
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Opinion
- Sunday, April 28, 2024 | CYP Now
The idea for mental health support teams (MHSTs) to bridge the gap between school counselling services and specialist therapeutic support in the community came out of the children’s mental health green paper published in 2017 by Theresa May’s government. Plans to introduce MHSTs in a third of schools and colleges by 2023 and to half by 2025 were confirmed the following summer.
Protect youth work by enacting statutory duty
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Opinion
- Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | CYP Now
When statutory agencies failed to intervene when young girls were being sexually abused by gangs of men in Rochdale it was youth workers who raised the alarm.
Reward longevity to retain and attract childcare staff
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Opinion
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | CYP Now
It is good news that the Department for Education has now launched a national campaign promoting childcare careers. It follows years of lobbying for such a measure from early education organisations.
Councils need bigger budgets, not handouts
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Opinion
- Sunday, January 28, 2024 | CYP Now
The £600m of extra funding to ease the pressures facing local authorities is the latest example of the government being forced to bail out financially stricken councils.
Three key sector issues for a general election year
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Opinion
- Wednesday, January 3, 2024 | CYP Now
In all likelihood 2024 will be a general election year, with the outcome at the polls setting the policy agenda for the rest of the decade. For children and families services, three issues could play a key role in the campaign.
We need a national strategy to uphold children’s rights
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Opinion
- Thursday, November 23, 2023 | CYP Now
In May, Children England published the Vision for a ChildFair State, the culmination of four years’ work with a group of young people to define the central pillars of support that should be available to every child in every community.
Quicker care proceedings can give children certainty
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Opinion
- Thursday, October 19, 2023 | CYP Now
Being subject to care proceedings is a distressing time for any child – it creates anxiety, disrupts relationships and damages schooling.
Minsters must work with sector to save residentials
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Opinion
- Thursday, August 31, 2023 | CYP Now
The government's National Youth Guarantee pledges that by 2025 every young person in England aged 11 to 18 will have access to adventures away from home.
Tackle child poverty to secure future of NHS
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Opinion
- Thursday, July 20, 2023 | CYP Now
Following the NHS’s 75th Birthday in July, commentators from across the political spectrum have been contemplating its future – with some concluding that the challenges are so significant that the patient has been admitted to hospital with the crash team on standby.
Non-profit provision the key to solving sufficiency
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Opinion
- Thursday, May 25, 2023 | CYP Now
The root of the current crisis in social care commissioning is the lack of sufficient placements.
Make SEND system about collaboration not conflict
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Opinion
- Thursday, April 20, 2023 | CYP Now
Between 2015 and 2021, the annual number of appeals about decisions to the SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) Tribunal spiralled by a whopping 280 per cent.
There's no evidence for childcare ratios change
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Opinion
- Monday, March 27, 2023 | CYP Now
A decade on from its initial failed attempt, the Conservative government has finally decided to push ahead with plans to increase the number of two-year-olds a childcare practitioner can look after.
Workforce shortage is threat to care reforms
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Opinion
- Thursday, February 23, 2023 | CYP Now
The government's Care Review response, Stable Homes, Built on Love, sets ambitious targets for improving children's outcomes, testing new approaches to early help, and boosting professional standards in child protection work.
Children need prompt action on digital risks
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Opinion
- Thursday, January 26, 2023 | CYP Now
The Online Safety Bill is currently undergoing its second reading in the House of Lords as it meanders its way through the parliamentary process.
Permanency must be key focus of placement making
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Opinion
- Tuesday, January 3, 2023 | CYP Now
Sorting out the myriad problems with the care system has to be a top priority of Education Secretary Gillian Keegan in 2023. Further evidence – if any were needed – that the system is not working well came with two reports on adoption just before Christmas.
Give sector tools to tackle looming crisis
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Opinion
- Thursday, December 1, 2022 | CYP Now
The Children & Young People Now Awards champions brilliant and innovative practice across the sector.
Let’s design towns that meet children’s needs
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 25, 2022 | CYP Now
Take a walk along most high streets and you’ll see empty retail units, tired-looking public spaces and an almost complete absence of facilities for children and young people.
Childcare needs bold solutions on funding
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 27, 2022 | CYP Now
Just a few weeks into her premiership, Prime Minister Liz Truss has demonstrated she is not afraid to take bold but difficult decisions. Removing the cap on bankers’ bonuses, scrapping plans for a UK Bill of Rights and pledging to restart fracking for shale gas to name three.
Families need urgent action on cost of living
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Opinion
- Tuesday, August 30, 2022 | CYP Now
The UK will enter what is tipped to be, in economic terms, the toughest winter in the post-war era amid warnings from organisations like Barnardo’s and Action for Children that vulnerable families will be hit hardest.
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