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Let's be ready to answer for our children's rights record

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's commissioner for England Maggie Atkinson looks ahead as the UNCRC marks its Silver Jubilee.

Independent voice a must for commissioner Anne Longfield

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The next children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield must stand up to the government if she is to champion the rights of children and young people and allay concerns over the role's independence.

Councils call for clarity over refugee support arrangements

News

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Council and children's services leaders are calling on the government to clarify how they will be supported to resettle 20,000 refugees, including unaccompanied children, from Syria.

Behind the Inspection Rating: Staff ensure quality short breaks

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Ade Adepitan Short Break Centre, London - short break centre inspection - September 2015.

Outcomes-based commissioner: Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children

Analysis

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes talks to Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children.

Putting children's rights at the heart of services for children

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

A Unicef UK programme is helping five councils change how they deliver and commission a range of children's services by redesigning them using the principles that underpin the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Police reformer: Olivia Pinkney, national lead for children and young people's policing

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes meets Olivia Pinkney, the National Police Chiefs Council's lead officer for children and young people.

Government to consider intervention in Somerset children's services

News

Monday, March 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education will consider intervening in the running of children's services in Somerset after the department was labelled "inadequate" by Ofsted for the second time in less than two years.

Leadership: Involving young service users

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

| CYP Now

Involving young people in shaping services can transform their lives and those of others. However, participation must be meaningful, fun, interactive and may generate outcomes you are not expecting.

Complete communicator

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett meets Anna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau.

Quiz of the Year 2019

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

| CYP Now

While Brexit maintained its grip on politics and policymaking, familiar themes of rising demand, insufficient funding and cuts to provision dominated services for children and families in 2019. Test your knowledge of the last 12 months in CYP Now's Quiz of the Year.

Government 'fails to improve education of young disabled people'

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Monday, June 22, 2015

| CYP Now

The government is failing to meet its pledge to ensure young people with disabilities can access specialist further education colleges, it has been claimed.

Children's charity closures prompt leaders to call for investigation

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

| CYP Now

The collapse of Kids Company and the British Association for Adoption & Fostering has raised questions over the charities' management. CYP Now assesses the factors behind the closures and what impact they will have.

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).