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This is how the government can improve children's lives

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  • Monday, May 25, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Although all the political parties featured children's issues in their manifestos, with all of the debate about national priorities in the run-up to the general election, I am sure I was not alone in being disappointed that children did not feature more prominently in the promises made by any of them.

Welfare reforms will make children's lives worse

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  • Tuesday, February 7, 2012
  • | CYP Now
I published a joint statement last week with my fellow children's commissioners across the UK about an issue that has kept many people across the children's sector both busy, and awake at night: the Welfare Reform Bill.

Daily roundup: Vocational training, health and parenting

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  • Wednesday, June 18, 2014
  • | CYP Now
New practical qualifications for school children introduced next year; huge rise in Crohn's disease hospital admissions of young people; and parents warned not to give children alcohol at end of exams, all in the news today.

Unfair welfare cuts will heighten child poverty

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2013
  • | CYP Now
There has been plenty of pre-Budget rhetoric thrown around about welfare and benefits spending from all sides. When the Budget is announced on 20 March, we will know which way the Chancellor jumped.