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Opinion: We must not lose sight of Sure Start's aim

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

| CYP Now

There has been much debate in recent weeks about the effectiveness of the government's Sure Start children's centre programme.

Editorial: 2020 workforce vision is a bit fuzzy

Opinion

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

| CYP Now

A turbulent year for the sector culminated this week with the publication of the long-anticipated 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy.

Fast-tracked cuts to frontline services will create chaos

Opinion

Monday, January 24, 2011

| CYP Now

It is now official: councils are being forced to cut fast and cut deep into frontline services for families, children and young people.

Baton passes to local councillors

Opinion

Monday, October 25, 2010

| CYP Now

Its significance takes on epic proportions but the four-year comprehensive spending review was not, in the event, Armageddon.

Help small charities prove their worth

Opinion

Monday, November 29, 2010

| CYP Now

The Teens and Toddlers programme featured this week has managed to build up a solid evidence base of its effectiveness in helping young people, giving it the opportunity to expand across the UK.

Gove gives joint working a rude jolt

Opinion

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

| CYP Now

Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.

Childcare reforms fail to offer a credible solution

Other

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

| CYP Now

The government's long-awaited and widely trailed plans to reform childcare are finally out.

Families need health visitor growth plan to get on track

Opinion

Monday, October 3, 2011

| CYP Now

Health visiting occupies a privileged position in these times. Unusually for this government, it is a profession with a national strategy driven from the centre.

Workforce development must survive break-up

Opinion

Monday, March 19, 2012

| CYP Now

The lights are about to go out on the Children's Workforce Development Council, with its functions hived off to a number of separate agencies.

Invest in early years to level-up attainment

Opinion

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

| CYP Now

After a period of the attainment gap narrowing – both at the start and end of school – latest analysis shows progress had stalled even before the pandemic.

How childcare can survive recession

Opinion

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

| CYP Now

The huge expansion in childcare over the past decade is one of this government's most visible achievements. Latest estimates suggest that 2.8 million families use childcare. We are now a childcare nation.

Sector must influence the coalition

Opinion

Monday, May 17, 2010

| CYP Now

They say that a week is a long time in politics. Quite. As predicted in these pages for many months, the new Tory Secretary of State Michael Gove has renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as the Department for Education.

Kirklees is litmus test for the value of free childcare

Other

Monday, September 3, 2012

| CYP Now

Labour must produce a clear vision for children

Other

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

| CYP Now

After a slow start, Labour seems to be finding its feet in opposition. But with a general election a little over a year away, time is running out for the party to produce a coherent policy vision for children, young people and families.