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General election 2019: Key policy guide
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Analysis
- Tuesday, November 26, 2019 | CYP Now
Derren Hayes analyses what the main parliamentary parties are pledging on the key policy battlegrounds for the children, young people and families sector at the coming general election.
Analysis projects rise in 'homeless' families
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News
- Friday, August 11, 2017 | CYP Now
There are 50,000 children living in 'homeless' households, with numbers projected to rise by a quarter over the next decade unless the government tackles the problem, analysis reveals.
Big jump in B&B use for homeless families
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News
- Friday, December 18, 2015 | CYP Now
The number of homeless families with children being placed in emergency bed and breakfast (B&B) accommodation has rocketed by 45 per cent over the last year.
Spending Review: Chancellor ditches controversial tax credit cuts
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News
- Wednesday, November 25, 2015 | CYP Now
The government has scrapped plans to cut tax credits from millions of working parents on low incomes from next year.
Labour conference: Shadow chancellor promises action on homeless families
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News
- Monday, September 28, 2015 | CYP Now
Labour will provide accommodation for 100,000 children in homeless families, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has pledged.
Conservatives make 30-hour free childcare promise
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News
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 | CYP Now
The Conservative party has pledged to extend free childcare for three- and four-year-olds to 30 hours each week if it wins the general election.
Conservative work-for-welfare plans branded 'condescending'
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News
- Wednesday, February 18, 2015 | CYP Now
Campaigners have criticised as "punitive and condescending" Conservative Party plans to force long-term unemployed young people to do community service in exchange for state benefits.
Homelessness support fails families with young children, report finds
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News
- Wednesday, February 11, 2015 | CYP Now
Support for the estimated 15,700 babies living in homeless households needs to urgently improve, a damning report by the NSPCC and Anna Freud Centre has found.
Government finds extra £74m for crisis support schemes
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News
- Thursday, February 5, 2015 | CYP Now
Child poverty campaigners have welcomed a government U-turn over funding cuts to support and emergency grants for families in crisis.
MPs: Teach children how to cook on a budget to beat hunger
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News
- Monday, December 8, 2014 | CYP Now
Fewer families would go hungry in the future if schools were required to teach budgeting and parenting skills, MPs have concluded.
Food poverty sees disadvantaged London children go hungry
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News
- Tuesday, October 7, 2014 | CYP Now
Disadvantaged children in London are going without meals or eating poor quality food because their parents are living in poverty, research suggests.
Benefit policies ‘push asylum-seeking children into poverty'
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News
- Wednesday, August 6, 2014 | CYP Now
A government funding freeze on support for asylum-seeking children in the UK has been heavily criticised in a report by The Children's Society.
Councils increase number of troubled families turned around
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News
- Thursday, July 10, 2014 | CYP Now
The number of troubled families helped to turn their lives around by an intensive government support programme has risen to nearly 53,000, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced.
Daily roundup: Free school meals, vitamin D, and Bedroom Tax
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Other
- Wednesday, May 14, 2014 | CYP Now
Whitehall raises concerns over viability of free school meals; Nice calls for expansion of use of vitamin D supplements; and judicial review launched into child exemption from Bedroom Tax, all in the news today.
Children 'bear brunt of parental debt'
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News
- Thursday, May 8, 2014 | CYP Now
Many of the 2.4 million children of parents who are in problem debt are going without basics such as food, clothing and heating, research by the Children's Society and StepChange Debt Charity has found.
Daily roundup: Online safety, child health, and housing benefit
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Other
- Thursday, April 3, 2014 | CYP Now
Psychiatrists to get training on promoting media mental wellbeing; plain cigarette packaging plans welcomed by clinicians; and Lib Dem president wants to drop support for housing benefit changes, all in the news today.
Benefit cap 'risks derailing child poverty fight'
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News
- Thursday, March 27, 2014 | CYP Now
Children's charities have criticised MPs from all three main political parties for voting to cap the welfare budget at £119.5bn next year.
Budget 2014: Welfare cap will 'trap poor in poverty', warn charities
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News
- Wednesday, March 19, 2014 | CYP Now
Children's charities have hit out at the government's decision to introduce a cap on welfare spending from next year.
Fuel poverty hits millions of children
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News
- Friday, March 7, 2014 | CYP Now
Millions of children are living in homes that are cold and damp because their parents can't afford to heat them properly, a report by the Children's Society has found.
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