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Only government can stop the dismantling of youth services
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- Monday, July 21, 2014 | CYP Now
The finding from the Cabinet Office survey that total funding for council youth services fell by 22.3 per cent in the two years up to April 2014 will not come as a huge surprise to many in youth work.
DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department's former ministers.
Character education can help children succeed
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- Monday, June 22, 2015 | CYP Now
There is a temptation to view character education as part of an agenda by Conservative politicians to take schooling and youth participation back to a bygone era when Victorian values of the British stiff upper lip ruled.
No quick fixes in turning around children's services
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
Management standards, specifically how to deal with inadequate leadership, were very much in the news at the end of December.
Youth workers could be the missing link in PSHE
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- Monday, May 13, 2013 | CYP Now
Youth work and schools make strange bedfellows. The very essence of youth work as voluntary and non-formal is certainly at odds with the formal, compulsory nature of school.
Children need a long-term plan in this spending abyss
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- Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | CYP Now
The country might be out of recession (again), but with the size of the deficit still enormous, public spending shows no sign of returning to growth. In our special report, we examine the long-term challenges and consequences of children's services spend continuing to fall during this decade.
Young people ‘not known' due to systemic neglect
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- Monday, May 28, 2012 | CYP Now
It was the former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld who said during one of the most maligned press statements of the 21st Century that "there are known unknowns".
Education attainment and poverty inextricably linked
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- Monday, June 8, 2015 | CYP Now
The unveiling of the government's legislative priorities offered both reasons to be optimistic and pessimistic over the prospects for children and young people over the coming parliament.
Education for offenders has to make the grade
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
The government's desire to put education at the centre of youth custody and tackle the stubbornly high reoffending rates - still in excess of 70 per cent - is, on the face of it, welcome.
Labour must produce a clear vision for children
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- Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | CYP Now
After a slow start, Labour seems to be finding its feet in opposition. But with a general election a little over a year away, time is running out for the party to produce a coherent policy vision for children, young people and families.
Election result should provide policy clarity
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- Monday, May 11, 2015 | CYP Now
The general election result looks set to be a defining one.
Youth work must tap into education policy spine
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- Tuesday, November 12, 2013 | CYP Now
The admission by minister for civil society Nick Hurd that he is still unsure where council-led youth work fits into the government's future vision for the sector is not the most surprising of revelations.
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