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Monday, June 8, 2015

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Programme helps bereaved children cope with the death of a close relative.

Suicide bereavement support, Denmark

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| CYP Now

Anna Wardley visited Denmark to speak to leading experts and organisations doing innovative work to improve mental health outcomes for suicide-bereaved children that could be replicated in the UK.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

Monday, January 16, 2012

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Sweeping reform of the youth justice system is necessary to prevent hundreds of children being "needlessly" criminalised and sentenced to custody, according to a think-tank.

Daily roundup: Strike action, Universal Credit and tobacco warnings

Thursday, September 5, 2013

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Teachers threaten walk out over pay and conditions; government's welfare reform programme criticised; and graphic tobacco warnings fail to dissuade teenage smokers, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Ofqual on EBacc, service children, and Buckinghamshire SEN support

Thursday, December 6, 2012

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Ofqual concerns over EBacc plans, MPs to investigate education provision for children of service personnel, and Buckinghamshire council is reprimanded in over special educational needs provision, all in the news today.

Gang hotspots failing to confront young people's health issues

Thursday, October 31, 2013

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More than 80 per cent of England's gang "hotspots" have no strategy in place to tackle the health problems that contribute to youth and gang violence, according to a report.

Daily roundup: Youth work, parental leave, charity funding

Monday, March 24, 2014

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Hospital youth workers could help girls trapped in gangs; quarter of dads take no parental leave, study finds; and warning for charities over fundraising methods, all in the news today.

Behind the Inspection Rating: Structure change drives progress

Monday, September 14, 2015

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Kingston upon Thames Council - children's services inspection - May 2015

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

Monday, October 12, 2015

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Children's services leaders gathered at CYP Now's Early Help Conference to discuss latest policy developments in early help and hear how local areas are developing interventions across a range of settings and age groups.

Grieving children need support to help avoid long-term challenges

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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How peer support helps children cope better with grief

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| CYP Now

Weekly sessions of peer support give children and families a way to explore their feelings and cope better with the grieving process after the loss of a loved one.

Daily roundup: youth unemployment, benefit cap, and mental health

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

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Government advisers brand Youth Contract a failure; benefit cap not helping struggling households into work research finds; and child mental health survey needs to be reinstated, say psychiatrists, all in the news today.

How parents deliver CBT to help their children beat anxiety disorders

Monday, October 12, 2015

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Project helps children recover from anxiety.

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

Friday, March 15, 2013

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Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.

AdCAMHS, East Sussex

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

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Therapeutic programme that supports adopted children and their adoptive families who are struggling emotionally.

Government awards 240,000 to child mental health charity

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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A charity providing mental health services in schools is to use a government grant of more than 240,000 to test and develop approaches to improving children and families' health and wellbeing.

Daily roundup: Health "timebomb" for Neets, council loses data, and school starting age demo

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

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Health risks for Neets highlighted, council fined for losing children's data, and Too Much Too Soon campaign reaches parliament, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Gangs, mental health services and children's hospital rating

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

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NSPCC launches new helpline for parents concerned about gangs; care and support minister Norman Lamb criticises children's mental health services; and health watchdog grades children's hospital as "requires improvement", all in the news today.

Parental conflict ‘damages children's mental health'

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

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Exposure to conflict between their parents can put children's mental health and long-term life chances at risk, a government-funded study has found.

Daily roundup: Teenage pregnancy, jobs scheme, and advice service

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

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Teenage pregnancy rates in Bradford halve in five years; Deputy PM to launch £50m jobs fund for young people; and new service opens for parents who are worried about teenagers, all in the news today.

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the scale of child neglect, its long-term effect on children's wellbeing and how interventions can prevent and repair the damage caused to children's ability to form strong attachments with parents and carers.

Northamptonshire Parent Infant Partnership (NorPIP)

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

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Supports the nurturing of secure attachments and loving, care-giving relationships between parents and their under-twos

Daily roundup: Criminal families, advice on praising children, and sex education

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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Judge wants babies removed from persistent offenders; warning on praising children, and funding secured for lessons aimed at children at risk of sexual exploitation, all in the news today.

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

Monday, September 29, 2014

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Local authorities have been ordered to undertake an audit of how they respond to child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal.

Daily roundup: Child poverty, spending cuts and Sandwell suspension