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Cost of living focus for new child poverty strategy

    News
  • Thursday, February 27, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Government efforts to tackle child poverty over the next three years will focus on getting parents into work, decreasing living costs and boosting educational attainment for the poorest children.

End service barriers to give families a boost

    Opinion
  • Friday, August 19, 2011
  • | CYP Now
There have been numerous government-sponsored reviews over the past few months: Graham Allen on early intervention, Frank Field on social mobility, Dame Clare Tickell on the early years and Eileen Munro on child protection.

School transition project set for launch

    News
  • Monday, April 20, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Early years providers are to develop closer working with primary schools in two English regions as part of a pilot project to improve the transition of children into formal education.

This is how the government can improve children's lives

    Other
  • Monday, May 25, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Although all the political parties featured children's issues in their manifestos, with all of the debate about national priorities in the run-up to the general election, I am sure I was not alone in being disappointed that children did not feature more prominently in the promises made by any of them.

Welfare reforms will make children's lives worse

    Other
  • Tuesday, February 7, 2012
  • | CYP Now
I published a joint statement last week with my fellow children's commissioners across the UK about an issue that has kept many people across the children's sector both busy, and awake at night: the Welfare Reform Bill.