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Legal Update: Caring for refugee children

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  • Monday, September 28, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the UK government's response to the refugee crisis and foster care provision for refugee children.

Legal Update: Call for action plan on FGM

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  • Monday, July 21, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The home affairs committee has published a report calling for a national action plan on female genital mutilation. Catrin Gosby, researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the report's proposals.

Mutual appreciation

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  • Monday, August 4, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Laura McCardle meets Sandra Richardson, chief executive of Knowsley Youth Mutual.

DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers

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  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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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.

Do we need more men?

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  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Women outnumber men across the children's workforce, particularly in work with young children. Charlotte Goddard investigates whether it matters and what employers could do to redress the balance

Opinion: Young people can build their way out of a housing crisis

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  • Tuesday, January 7, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Sometimes innovative and important policy ideas come from the most unexpected quarters. The often reactionary planning minister Nick Boles suddenly piped up some weeks ago that plots of state-owned land should be available, via a waiting list running parallel with that for council housing, to young people for them to build houses for themselves.

Youth employment relies on opportunities, not just skills

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  • Monday, March 31, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Twenty-five years ago, the Confederation of British Industry published a report calling on business to forge better links with secondary education, particularly through helping pupils to understand the world of work. This was, it argued, as much a matter of self-interest as anything else: a "demographic time-bomb" was about to explode as the population of young people leaving school decreased by a third and so only those businesses with good links with schools would retain any chance of selecting the pick of the crop.

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