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GPs should attend protection events

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  • Tuesday, March 11, 2008
  • | CYP Now
GPs should make attending child protection conferences a priority, according to guidance from the Royal College of General Practitioners and the NSPCC.

Training boost for play sector

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  • Monday, January 18, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The sector skills council for playwork will create a network of high-quality training providers in an effort to increase the number of qualified workers in the sector.

Calls for virtual health centre

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  • Tuesday, March 18, 2008
  • | CYP Now
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) is calling for the virtual school model proposed in the government's Children's Plan to be adapted to cover health.

Better drug and sex advice wanted

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  • Friday, January 29, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Young people in Bradford would like to see more drug-awareness sessions in schools and better sexual health advice, a council consultation has found.

Short breaks provision saves 174m

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  • Monday, February 8, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Savings of 174m a year can be made if the government maintains short break funding for disabled children and their families beyond 2011, a report has claimed.

Prognosis for teen health services

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  • Monday, February 15, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Sixteen months after a pioneering scheme to improve teenage health services came to an end, Neil Puffett reports on its likely impact.

Experts call for legal highs guidance

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  • Monday, February 15, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Children need to be taught about the dangers of "legal highs" and guidance should be issued to youth workers to help curb increasing use of the drugs, health experts have warned.

Drug experts act to curb legal highs

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  • Monday, February 22, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Experts are to give children and young people advice on legal highs via internet sites including Facebook and mobile phone applications, after it emerged close to 400 new drugs have been identified online.

National network to assist workers

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  • Tuesday, April 8, 2008
  • | CYP Now
An Oxford project is working to set up a national network for mental health professionals who work with refugee and asylum-seeking children.

Contraception

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  • Tuesday, April 15, 2008
  • | CYP Now
The guidelines for providing contraceptive advice and treatment to young people under the age of consent vary across the four nations. Alison Bennett looks at the different procedures practitioners must follow in each one.

Sunderland schools, North East

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  • Friday, March 12, 2010
  • | CYP Now
What's it all about? Children in Sunderland have pledged their support for National Heart Month. Sunderland Council's attendance group manager Phil Hayden explains: "Heart conditions are a major issue in the North East and it is vital to give every child the best start in life to support their future health."

Quick guide to... Deafness

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  • Friday, March 12, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Research published last month has suggested three-fifths of local authorities in England are failing deaf children and their families.

A Community Nursing Strategy for Wales

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  • Tuesday, April 14, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The Welsh Assembly Government is seeking views on recommendations made on its community nursing strategy, by a ministerial task group chaired by the Royal College of Nursing.

Restraint training needed for entire workforce

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  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The whole of the children's workforce would benefit from basic training on the law relating to the use of restraint, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.