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Daily roundup: care absconding, early years bursaries and schools funding

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Investigation launched into high levels of children absconding from care in Kent, £1,500 bursaries for early years apprentices, and schools spending will be protected says Chancellor, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Child benefit changes, care proceedings pilot, and how childcare can 'make work pay'

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Monday, October 29, 2012

| CYP Now

A million letters sent to warn parents of child benefit changes, a pilot project reduces the length of care proceedings, and a call for government investment in childcare, all in the news today.

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

| CYP Now

A new director of children's services has been appointed by Birmingham City Council to turn around the troubled department.

LGA fears children's centre closures if cuts continue

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Friday, May 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's centres, libraries and sports centres will all be at risk of closure if central government makes significant further cuts to council budgets, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Daily roundup: child poverty, reading habits and autism support

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

| CYP Now

Child poverty could rise by 800,000 by 2020 warn Oxfam; reading for pleasure link to child academic achievement; and teachers struggle to access autism support, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Further education cuts, tax credits and drugs statistics

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Course closures and falling rolls in colleges, the link between welfare cuts and the economic crisis and drug use among school pupils, all in the news today.

Emotional abuse of children to become criminal offence

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Proposals in the Queen's Speech to make emotional neglect of children a criminal offence have been welcomed by leading children's charities.

Councils plan to support 380,000 more troubled families by 2020

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Monday, September 1, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's ambitious plans to expand the Troubled Families programme means local authorities will need to think creatively about how they reach and support more families with entrenched social problems.

Daily roundup: Missing children, the Welsh care system, and police and crime commissioners

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Friday, November 16, 2012

| CYP Now

A rise in the number of children going missing in London, a call to change attitudes to care in Wales, and a campaign to change the law on police and crime commissioner elections, all in the news today.

Majority of five-year-olds struggle at school

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Friday, February 11, 2011

| CYP Now

Fewer than half of five-year-olds in England are considered to have a good level of understanding and behaviour in their first year of school, a review of inequality has found.

Daily roundup: GCSE changes, working mothers, and child abuse victims

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Exam changes unveiled, children's academic performance not affected by mothers working, and child sex abuse victims to be spared court appearances, all in today's news roundup.

Daily roundup: Parenting costs, Section 28 and Norfolk

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Monday, August 19, 2013

| CYP Now

The cost of raising a child hits £148,000; seven schools ban promotion of homosexuality; and Norfolk has six months to improve, all in the news today.

Communities and Families Fund

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Grants for projects supporting young children and families across Scotland

Costing the case for change

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Monday, September 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett talks to Matthew Reed, chief executive of The Children's Society.

Daily roundup: Gang crime, adoption powers and state boarding school

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Friday, December 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Fall in youth violence since riots; BAAF welcomes changes to proposed adoption powers; and planners hinder state boarding school bid, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Paternity leave, child sexual exploitation, and youth zone talks

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Friday, February 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Study finds 20 per cent of dads want more time off work to look after their children, Peterborough grooming gang sentenced to a total of 54 years in jail, and youth charity planning £6m centre for Chester, all in the news today.

Loughton to mentor workless family

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Monday, August 22, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's minister Tim Loughton has volunteered to "adopt" a family as part of a scheme to help people back into work.

Daily roundup: DfE cuts, schools in Wales and paternity leave

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

| CYP Now

£2bn cut threat for the Department for Education, a call for Welsh councils to lose school duties, and a think tank suggests 'use it or lose it' paternity leave, all in the news today.

Social Mobility Commission calls for pupil premium extension to early years

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

| CYP Now

The pupil premium should be extended into nurseries, according to the government-appointed Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.

Daily roundup: Childcare, family breakdown, and child health

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

| CYP Now

Study highlights benefits of breakfast clubs; parents unaware of help for family breakdown issues; and study links child health problems to older fathers, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: School admissions code, extremism, and jobseeker's allowance

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Attempts to help disadvantaged children get into best schools; report on 'Trojan Horse' plot published; and review backs jobseeker's allowance sanction system, all in the news today.

Leading children's charities warn of spike in poverty due to austerity measures

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| CYP Now

Three leading charities have warned that the number of children living in poverty will rise to more than one million by 2015 as a result of austerity measures and the impact of the recession.

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).

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Qualification requirements and training provision for working with children and young people is continuously adapting in line with changes in policy and practice. Charlotte Goddard provides a comprehensive overview.

Daily roundup: Wilshaw on Gove's exam plans, parents priced out of day trips and school funding bid rejected

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Monday, July 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Ofsted chief airs concerns on exam overhaul proposals, the increasing cost of family day trips and a failed school funding bid, all make the news today.

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Daily roundup: care absconding, early years bursaries and schools funding

Daily roundup: Child benefit changes, care proceedings pilot, and how childcare can 'make work pay'

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

LGA fears children's centre closures if cuts continue

Daily roundup: child poverty, reading habits and autism support

Daily roundup: Further education cuts, tax credits and drugs statistics

Emotional abuse of children to become criminal offence

Councils plan to support 380,000 more troubled families by 2020

Daily roundup: Missing children, the Welsh care system, and police and crime commissioners

Majority of five-year-olds struggle at school

Daily roundup: GCSE changes, working mothers, and child abuse victims

Daily roundup: Parenting costs, Section 28 and Norfolk

Communities and Families Fund

Costing the case for change

Daily roundup: Gang crime, adoption powers and state boarding school

Daily roundup: Paternity leave, child sexual exploitation, and youth zone talks

Loughton to mentor workless family

Daily roundup: DfE cuts, schools in Wales and paternity leave

Social Mobility Commission calls for pupil premium extension to early years

Daily roundup: Childcare, family breakdown, and child health

Daily roundup: School admissions code, extremism, and jobseeker's allowance

Leading children's charities warn of spike in poverty due to austerity measures

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

Daily roundup: Wilshaw on Gove's exam plans, parents priced out of day trips and school funding bid rejected

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