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No quick fixes in turning around children's services
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- 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.
Election result should provide policy clarity
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- Monday, May 11, 2015 | CYP Now
The general election result looks set to be a defining one.
Free childcare scheme needs more investment
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- Monday, June 23, 2014 | CYP Now
The government's free childcare offer for disadvantaged two-year-olds is both laudable and much needed. But that alone will not guarantee its success. Concerns about implementation of the initiative - which is meant to provide 15 hours of free childcare per week for the 130,000 most disadvantaged two-year-olds - have been around for some time. In the spring, the government's own figures showed a quarter of the expected number of places had yet to be created.
Labour must produce a clear vision for children
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- 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.
DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department's former ministers.
Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices
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- 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.
Children need a long-term plan in this spending abyss
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- 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.
Workforce development must survive break-up
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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.
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.
Private finance can intervene now, but not for generations
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Opinion
- Monday, July 11, 2011 | CYP Now
Early intervention is popular right now in theory, but in many areas is being decimated in practice.
Never mind the inspectorate, recruit the right inspectors
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Opinion
- Monday, April 18, 2011 | CYP Now
On the face of it, the education select committee's call to split Ofsted into two separate inspectorates for education and children's care would represent a further step away from services centred on the needs of the whole child. It is a trend played out in several areas through the disappearance of children's trust arrangements and local authority children's services departments.
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