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Daily roundup: Profit-making schools, help to stop smoking, and preparing young people for work

Thursday, January 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Plan to allow profit-making companies to run free schools, a stop smoking service for young people in Wales, and a Department for Education scheme to get young people into work, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Electronic tags, 'train surfing', and a new training agency for teachers

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Thursday, January 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Figures show two-thirds of young people fitted with electronic tags go on to break their court order, warning over 'train surfing' craze in Wales, and plans to merge the Teaching Agency and the National College for School Leadership, all in the news today.

Legal Update: The Children and Families Bill

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

| CYP Now

The Children and Families Bill includes a number of proposed reforms to existing legislation. Christopher Sykes, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the principal changes

A fresh workforce strategy is vital

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

| CYP Now

The ability to make a difference to children's lives is critically affected by the quality and training of the professionals and practitioners who work with them.

Daily roundup: Smoking, teaching schools, and sexualised imagery

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Steep rise in number of children starting to smoke, funding boost for teaching schools, and Labour calls for action on sexualised adverts, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Riots warning, Wetherby YOI and West Mercia anti-rape campaign

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| CYP Now

A quarter of young people say the riots could erupt again, inspectors visit Weatherby YOI, and West Mercia Police apologise over a rape campaign poster, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Children playing sport, Labour moots return of EMA, and North-East young people have it the hardest

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Monday, October 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Concerns over children playing sport too early; Labour hints at reintroduction of student support; and the North East judged the worst place to be young in the UK, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Further education, childcare and lone parents

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Details published on vocational alternatives to A-levels; unpaid leave from work should be available to grandparents caring for grandchildren; and study shows impact of austerity on lone parents, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Visual impairments, Youth Audit and education support

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Guidelines launched to improve commissioning of child eye health services; council undergoes first Youth Audit; and plans to raise education support for disabled young people to 25 gains backing, all in the news today.

Labour works to plug policy holes with general election a year away

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

| CYP Now

An overarching vision for children and young people, an improvement body for schools and children's services, and a revamp of neglect laws are some of the areas the Labour Party needs to address over the next 12 months.

Daily roundup: Care proceedings, teacher training, and physical education

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Social workers to get help understanding care proceedings legislation; teacher training on SEN insufficient; and most pupils "not bothered" by loss of competitive school sport, all in the news today.

The art of learning

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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Laura McCardle meets Nick Hudson, director of early years at Ofsted.

Daily roundup: Teaching, education inspection and youth opinions

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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

| CYP Now

British values to be taught in schools; Nacro's work with Neets gets good Ofsted rating; and Clegg admits party has lost support of young people, all in the news today.

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.

Ask the Experts: Deterring children from tattoos

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Monday, August 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Our expert panel offers advice on young people and tattoos, holiday cover, children living with substance misuse and mud kitchens.

Councils to share services to make savings

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Monday, October 17, 2011

| CYP Now

The vast majority of children's services decision-makers in local authorities across England are planning to share work with other councils to make financial savings, it has emerged.

Education: Fingers on the scanners

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

| CYP Now

From nurseries to school canteens, biometric technology is increasingly being used in different educational settings. Mathew Little looks at the possibilities of the technology and asks whether fears about its use are justified.