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Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.
Retain focus on early intervention
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families is due shortly to release a document about what makes for effective early intervention.
Families key to success of free childcare plans
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Other
- Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | CYP Now
Here is something of a bombshell for the government's £1.7bn programme to offer free childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds: when these children turn five, that provision will have had no impact on their learning and development.
Army of childminders can help bridge the gap
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Opinion
- Monday, February 20, 2012 | CYP Now
Social mobility is thankfully all the rage these days, and the free childcare entitlement is a crucial policy to help all children get the best start in life regardless of background.
ECM might be dead in name but its substance endures
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Opinion
- Monday, March 21, 2011 | CYP Now
The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda has been something of a taboo for the past 10 months.
Editorial: We can't afford to sidestep poor pay any more
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 11, 2008 | CYP Now
The early years sector has been subject to a steady stream of welcome reforms over the past decade, starting with the first ever UK National Childcare Strategy in 1998.
High-qualified early years workforce will benefit all
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Other
- Monday, June 25, 2012 | CYP Now
Three Cs go to Professor Cathy Nutbrown's final report to the government on early years qualifications: it is clear, compelling and courageous.
'Schoolification' is not the answer to narrow the gap
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Other
- Monday, April 14, 2014 | CYP Now
Patience is a virtue in short supply in public services, particularly among politicians and policymakers. There can be few areas where this is more evident than in education, where initiatives and overhauls of curriculums, exams and structures seem to come ever thicker and faster. A couple of weeks ago, early years providers discovered how impatient the government and its agencies are to raise standards, with the sector's record for improving the outcomes for disadvantaged children coming under scrutiny.
Editorial: Quality of childcare should win against race for places
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Other
- Monday, August 18, 2014 | CYP Now
A key policy drive to intervene early and boost social mobility comes into force on 1 September - free childcare places for 15 hours a week will expand from 20 per cent to the 40 per cent most disadvantaged two-year-olds.
No quick fixes in turning around children's services
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Other
- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
Management standards, specifically how to deal with inadequate leadership, were very much in the news at the end of December.
Editorial: Discs blunder ups pressure on ContactPoint
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 27, 2007 | CYP Now
Fear can be very contagious. The "missing discs" debacle at HM Revenue & Customs has intensified security concerns about ContactPoint, the 224m database that will hold details of every child in England.
After the circus, the work carries on
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009 | CYP Now
It was Oscar Wilde who wrote: "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness" (The Importance of Being Earnest).
Allen's intervention could be too late
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Opinion
- Monday, September 27, 2010 | CYP Now
Graham Allen's work in spearheading the independent commission on early intervention is hugely important.
Can good services remain standing?
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Opinion
- Monday, June 21, 2010 | CYP Now
Like the suffocating drone of vuvuzelas, cuts continue to dominate the atmosphere in the children's services arena and in public services more generally.
Benefits of funded childcare need selling
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | CYP Now
When searching for reasons for the low take-up of funded childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds in England, debate has focused on whether providers are being adequately remunerated to create sufficient places.
Youth workers could be the missing link in PSHE
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Other
- Monday, May 13, 2013 | CYP Now
Youth work and schools make strange bedfellows. The very essence of youth work as voluntary and non-formal is certainly at odds with the formal, compulsory nature of school.
Children need a long-term plan in this spending abyss
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Other
- Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | CYP Now
The country might be out of recession (again), but with the size of the deficit still enormous, public spending shows no sign of returning to growth. In our special report, we examine the long-term challenges and consequences of children's services spend continuing to fall during this decade.
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