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Campaign urges employers to target jobless young people
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 | CYP Now
Some of the UK's biggest companies are being called upon to do more to offer unemployed young people job opportunities.
Work skills training at centre of Labour's education manifesto
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- Friday, April 10, 2015 | CYP Now
The Labour Party has pledged a raft of improvements to careers support and vocational training in schools if it wins the next general election.
Youth charities receive social impact bond investment
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- Friday, March 20, 2015 | CYP Now
A charity that aims to improve the lives of teenagers by recruiting them as mentors for vulnerable toddlers is among four programmes to win social impact bond (SIB) funding through the Youth Engagement Fund.
MPs criticise low uptake of apprenticeships for under-18s
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- Monday, March 9, 2015 | CYP Now
MPs are calling on schools and the government to do more to address the low uptake of apprenticeships among teenagers.
Call for schools to improve vocational training advice
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- Friday, March 6, 2015 | CYP Now
School careers advice services must give greater priority to promoting vocational training opportunities, a youth training organisation has said.
Job training plan aims to help 10,000 Birmingham young people
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- Thursday, March 5, 2015 | CYP Now
A programme has been launched to create 10,000 work experience opportunities for unemployed young people in Birmingham.
Deaf student challenges proposed DSA changes
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- Wednesday, February 4, 2015 | CYP Now
A legal challenge is being launched against the government over proposed changes to the way support for disabled students is funded.
Post-16 study failings cost £800m, says LGA
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- Monday, February 2, 2015 | CYP Now
More than £800m of education money is being "wasted" by schools and colleges because of poor advice being given to students about post-16 study options, local government leaders have said.
Unions launch careers advice campaign
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- Thursday, January 8, 2015 | CYP Now
Trade unions are calling for every young person to have access to face-to-face careers guidance provided by highly qualified professionals.
Ofsted chief: Poor leadership, not structures, causes schools to fail
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- Wednesday, December 10, 2014 | CYP Now
The debate on whether schools should remain under local authority control in order to maintain standards is "outdated" and "sterile", according to Ofsted's chief inspector.
Government rejects child poverty commission targets
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- Wednesday, November 26, 2014 | CYP Now
Government efforts to tackle child poverty have been branded a "fairytale" after it rejected calls to introduce a range of new targets aimed at improving social mobility.
More specialist advisers needed to tackle careers guidance 'postcode lottery'
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- Thursday, October 16, 2014 | CYP Now
Schools and further education colleges should be able to access specialist careers advisers as part of an expanded National Careers Service, a report by academics at the University of Derby concludes.
NDNA urges early years expertise in new school inspection framework
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- Friday, October 10, 2014 | CYP Now
The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has warned that the move to a single inspection framework covering all education provision must not lead to further "schoolification" of the early years.
Conservative Party Conference: Call for youth sector to promote informal education
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- Tuesday, September 30, 2014 | CYP Now
Youth organisations must do more to promote the value of informal education, the chief executive of Girlguiding has said.