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Children’s charities on issues the next government must prioritise

Monday, July 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Improved special educational needs support, expansion of social prescribing to boost youth mental health and investment in health visiting services are key policy asks sought by children’s charities, finds Amrit Virdi.

Council spending on early years and children’s services set for dramatic real-terms increase, data shows

News

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on early years provision is set to increase by almost half this year while children’s social care costs could see a real terms increase of 11%, according to government data.

Baby deaths reveal culture of poor practice

Analysis

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

High-profile deaths of two babies in preventable incidents in nurseries have raised wider issues over safeguarding procedures.

Longfield calls for new government poverty unit ahead of general election

News

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has called for the next government to establish a poverty unit sitting within Downing Street as part of a 10-point plan to halve child poverty by 2029.

The hits and misses of a ‘patchy’ parliament for children’s services

Analysis

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

The past five years saw a pandemic, Brexit fallout, the cost-of-living crisis and regular political upheaval. For children’s services, there was progress and missed opportunities. Experts pick the key developments.

Multi-agency data sharing must be improved to boost child development, say early years leaders

News

Thursday, June 20, 2024

| CYP Now

The next government needs to develop a national dataset encompassing education, health and social care details for all children, according to recommendations made ahead of July’s general election by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).

Labour and Conservative childcare pledges will hit ‘poor urban areas’ hardest, think-tank warns

News

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

| CYP Now

Disadvantaged urban areas are set to be hardest hit by a surge in demand for childcare places under early years plans published in both the Conservative and Labour parties’ manifestos, a think-tank is warning.

General election 2024: Key party manifesto pledges for the children and young people’s sector

News

Friday, June 14, 2024

| CYP Now

The three main parties have published policy pledges in a bid to win the general election on 4 July.

Labour Party manifesto: boosting school-based support and votes for 16s among pledges

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Reducing child poverty, investing in school-based careers and mental health support for young people and giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote are among the Labour Party’s pledges in their manifesto for the 2024 general election.

General Election 2024: Key manifesto pledges for early years

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Access to funded childcare hours has been a key battleground for the three main parties in the lead up to the election.

‘At least' £70mn of early years funding being left unspent by councils

News

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

| CYP Now

An investigation of early years entitlement funding has found at least £70 million is not being spent by local authorities.

Liberal Democrats pledge investment in disadvantaged children's education

News

Monday, June 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The Liberal Democrats have pledged a series of policies to narrow the attainment gap for disadvantaged children and boost educational opportunities for young people in their manifesto for the 2024 general election.

Labour pledges 3,300 new nurseries in existing primary schools

News

Monday, June 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The Labour Party has pledged to create more than 100,000 new nursery places, many of them in deprived areas, by using empty spaces in primary schools.

Children’s services pressures driving £6.2bn funding gap, LGA warns

News

Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authorities face a £6.2 billion funding gap over the next two years due in part to rising pressures on children’s services, new research from the Local Government Association (LGA) reveals.

Charity helps boost speech and language skills

Features

Saturday, June 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Initiative successfully trains early years practitioners to deliver speech and language interventions to help reduce the need for specialist support.

Oliver Steeper’s death after choking on food at nursery ruled as ‘misadventure’

News

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

| CYP Now

The death of a nine-month-old boy who died after choking on food at nursery has been ruled as “misadventure” following an inquest.

Stockport deputy nursery manager jailed over death of nine-month-old

News

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

| CYP Now

The deputy manager of a Stockport nursery, found guilty of the manslaughter of a nine-month-old baby, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Early years business investment could boost economy, royal report finds

News

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

| CYP Now

Investment by the private sector in the early years could add “at least £45.5bn in value” to the UK economy each year, according to research published by the Prince and Princess of Wales’s charity.

Stockport nursery worker guilty of baby’s manslaughter

News

Monday, May 20, 2024

| CYP Now

A Stockport nursery worker has been convicted of manslaughter over the death of a nine-month-old baby who was left strapped face-down to a beanbag for 90 minutes.

Providers fear 'lack of nursery places' as funded childcare expansion applications open for nine-month-olds

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Monday, May 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Sector leaders have raised concerns over a lack of “suitable” nursery places as the Department for Education opens applications for funded childcare hours to parents of children as young as nine months.

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