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The hidden helpers

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  • Tuesday, June 11, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Hundreds of thousands of children and young people care for a family member, but their needs often get ignored. Joe Lepper investigates the barriers young carers face in getting the vital support they require.

Ditch ‘bedroom tax' to save more children from poverty

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  • Monday, May 13, 2013
  • | CYP Now
I have a sense of déjà vu with regard to the benefit reforms. It reminds me of the last period of austerity in the 1980s. Here we are again, cutting back services and this time demonising the poorest in society and imposing benefit cuts on them.

Young mums see rosy future

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  • Monday, April 29, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Family nurse partnerships originated in the US in the 1970s to support first-time teenage parents. Imported to England six years ago, the government is continuing to fund their expansion. Joe Lepper finds out why

Parental help is most effective when it starts at conception

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  • Tuesday, April 16, 2013
  • | CYP Now
All decent parents want their children to be healthy and successful. It is now widely recognised that the first few years of life are fundamental to achieve this. The Wave Trust's recent report in collaboration with the Department for Education, Conception to Age 2: The Age of Opportunity, brings home this message, with a wide range of research showing how this initial life stage is a crucial phase of development, and one where focused support reaps dividends.

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