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Miliband: Families face a cost of living crisis

    News
  • Monday, February 28, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned of a crisis among low- and middle-income families as a result of government austerity measures including the rise in VAT and the reductions in benefits.

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.

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.

Daily roundup: Vocational training, health and parenting

    Other
  • Wednesday, June 18, 2014
  • | CYP Now
New practical qualifications for school children introduced next year; huge rise in Crohn's disease hospital admissions of young people; and parents warned not to give children alcohol at end of exams, all in the news today.