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Daily roundup: Benefits cap, female genital mutilation, and smoking in cars

Friday, February 7, 2014

| CYP Now

Latest figures on households affected by the benefits cap published; government makes FGM declaration, and health experts call on politicians to ban smoking in cars, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: FGM, school places and child neglect

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

| CYP Now

Home Office launches FGM poster campaign; London council keeps primary school open after change in housing policy; and mother neglect case dropped after plea from son, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Child protection, a charity merger, and the Fair4Families campaign

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Monday, January 28, 2013

| CYP Now

A shake-up of child protection training rumoured to be on the cards, The Private Equity Foundation and Impetus Trust announce plans to merge, and a campaign to protect families from cuts, all in the news today.

Children's commissioner sets out her priorities for improving young lives

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Monday, July 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Anne Longfield outlines her plans to shape the policy agenda in five key areas including children's use of the internet, tackling child abuse, overcoming inequalities, looked-after children and better cross-government working.

Critics slam poverty strategy for breach of law

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Friday, April 15, 2011

| CYP Now

Campaigners are threatening to take legal action after claims that the government's child poverty strategy has breached the law and lacks significant targets.

Daily roundup: £1.5bn for childcare reform, votes at 16, and tackling drug and alcohol misuse among parents

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Friday, January 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Childcare reforms tipped to be announced next week, MPs show support for lowering the voting age, and the financial benefits of drug and alcohol support for families, all in the news today.

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: Strike action, Universal Credit and tobacco warnings

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Teachers threaten walk out over pay and conditions; government's welfare reform programme criticised; and graphic tobacco warnings fail to dissuade teenage smokers, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Homeless families, job satisfaction, and call for Royal Commission on child abuse

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

| CYP Now

More families in B&B accommodation, youth work and childcare staff rate their job satisfaction, and a call for wide-ranging commission on child abuse, all in the news today.

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

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Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders gathered at CYP Now's Early Help Conference to discuss latest policy developments in early help and hear how local areas are developing interventions across a range of settings and age groups.

Daily roundup: Parental leave, youth zone and looked-after children

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Friday, November 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Government parental leave changes welcomed; new youth zone for Wolverhampton agreed; and calls for UKIP councillor to resign over comments about children in care, all in the news today.

The implications of the Spending Review on services for children

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Measures announced in the Chancellor's Spending Review will result in core funding for councils falling 24 per cent in real terms over the next four years. How will this affect children, young people and their families?

Daily roundup: Disabled athletes, free schools, and children's centres in Sheffield

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Research into children's views on disability and the Paralympics, figures show one in four free school applications come from religious groups, and plans to reorganise children's centres in Sheffield, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: child poverty, trafficked children, and Peterborough Council

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

| CYP Now

The public believes the government must do more to tackle child poverty, the UK system for identifying trafficked children is flawed, and the improvement notice on Peterborough's children's services is lifted, all in the news today

Daily roundup: Adoption adverts, mental health services, and children's centre closures

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Adoption agency places adverts featuring real children; report questions progress on mental health provision for young offenders; and politicians in Kent give green light to children's centre closures, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Universal credit, library closures and junk food

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Monday, September 10, 2012

| CYP Now

A charity warns Universal Credit will leave poor families out of pocket, the Children's Laureate condemns library closures and an investigation into "junk food" on sale in academy schools, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Exclusion inequalities, the Budget and early years teachers

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Children unfairly excluded from schools, campaigners say the Budget failed disadvantaged children, and DfE consults on early years teacher standards, all in the news today.

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?

Skills for the Job: Helping children affected by poverty

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

| CYP Now

With poverty on the increase in the UK, the number of children and families needing help and support from professionals is growing.

Daily roundup: child poverty, reading habits and autism support

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

| CYP Now

Child poverty could rise by 800,000 by 2020 warn Oxfam; reading for pleasure link to child academic achievement; and teachers struggle to access autism support, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Further education cuts, tax credits and drugs statistics

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Course closures and falling rolls in colleges, the link between welfare cuts and the economic crisis and drug use among school pupils, all in the news today.

Communities and Families Fund

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Grants for projects supporting young children and families across Scotland

In Focus: Families@30

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Daily roundup: Asylum, free school meals and early intervention

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Thursday, May 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Report warns of "disgraceful" conditions for child asylum seekers at Heathrow Airport; head teachers criticise insufficient free school meals funding; and charity calls for greater early intervention support, all in the news today.

Time for Tories to deliver

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Monday, May 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's leaders call for the Conservatives to curb cuts but deliver on other pledges.

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Daily roundup: Benefits cap, female genital mutilation, and smoking in cars

Daily roundup: FGM, school places and child neglect

Daily roundup: Child protection, a charity merger, and the Fair4Families campaign

Children's commissioner sets out her priorities for improving young lives

Critics slam poverty strategy for breach of law

Daily roundup: £1.5bn for childcare reform, votes at 16, and tackling drug and alcohol misuse among parents

Welfare reforms will make children's lives worse

Daily roundup: Strike action, Universal Credit and tobacco warnings

Daily roundup: Homeless families, job satisfaction, and call for Royal Commission on child abuse

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

Daily roundup: Parental leave, youth zone and looked-after children

The implications of the Spending Review on services for children

Daily roundup: Disabled athletes, free schools, and children's centres in Sheffield

Daily roundup: child poverty, trafficked children, and Peterborough Council

Daily roundup: Adoption adverts, mental health services, and children's centre closures

Daily roundup: Universal credit, library closures and junk food

Daily roundup: Exclusion inequalities, the Budget and early years teachers

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Skills for the Job: Helping children affected by poverty

Daily roundup: child poverty, reading habits and autism support

Daily roundup: Further education cuts, tax credits and drugs statistics

Communities and Families Fund

In Focus: Families@30

Daily roundup: Asylum, free school meals and early intervention

Time for Tories to deliver

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