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Creative thinking is vital for children's centres to survive
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- Tuesday, January 21, 2014 | CYP Now
Barely a week goes by without another council announcing plans to downsize its network of children's centres. From Kent to Bradford, Northants to Nottinghamshire, children's centres, like most other local authority services in England, are being squeezed in the face of unrelenting funding cuts.
Councils need the means to deliver foster care support
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- Tuesday, December 17, 2013 | CYP Now
A little over two months ago, the Fostering Network called on the government to do the right thing - both morally and economically - by extending financial support to foster carers and in doing so enable children they care for to stay in the placement past their 18th birthday and up to 21 if they so wish.
MPs call for greater clarity on role and performance of children's centres
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- Tuesday, December 17, 2013 | CYP Now
The government must provide greater clarity about the role of children's centres and make councils more accountable to children and families for their performance, MPs have said.
Social care third-party plans must not be rushed
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- Tuesday, November 26, 2013 | CYP Now
Education Secretary Michael Gove's speech at a recent NSPCC conference could become an epoch-making moment in the history of children's services.
Youth work must tap into education policy spine
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- Tuesday, November 12, 2013 | CYP Now
The admission by minister for civil society Nick Hurd that he is still unsure where council-led youth work fits into the government's future vision for the sector is not the most surprising of revelations.
Support care leavers to strive in their studies
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- Tuesday, October 29, 2013 | CYP Now
Our investigation of the state of support for care leavers paints what only can be described as a conflicting picture.
Blame games make the job of a DCS untenable
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- Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | CYP Now
Last Friday, the Reading Post published a story about how children's services in the town received only one application for each of the three senior social worker jobs it advertised. On the same day, the Coventry Telegraph reported that 30 demonstrators had gathered outside the city's town hall calling for more action to be taken against the agencies involved in the Daniel Pelka case.
New inspections must show us the big picture
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- Tuesday, October 1, 2013 | CYP Now
Ofsted provokes outright hostility among many local authority folk.
Children's services need clarity of accountability
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- Tuesday, August 20, 2013 | CYP Now
The government's proposals to transfer responsibility for children's social services in Doncaster from the local council to an independent trust have come under attack from Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones in her detailed response to the plans.
Doncaster experiment is sure to yield lessons
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- Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | CYP Now
Education Secretary Michael Gove's decision to remove Doncaster Council's powers to provide children's social care is a landmark move.
Youth needs must come ahead of political deeds
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- Tuesday, July 9, 2013 | CYP Now
After many months of casual neglect inside the Department for Education, the government last week revealed the Cabinet Office would take responsibility for youth policy.
Openness should nip extremism in the bud
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- Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | CYP Now
It is just over a month since the murder of Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby shocked the country, and then triggered a spate of reprisals. In typically strident-sounding fashion, the government set up a "taskforce" - the crisis-management response tool of choice for politicians these days.
Youth workers could be the missing link in PSHE
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- 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.
One small step for care, one giant leap required
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- Monday, April 29, 2013 | CYP Now
The high-profile cases of children in residential care going missing and being sexually exploited in the past year have sent shockwaves through our society. Last week, the government responded by announcing some important reforms.
We need young people ?on board, ‘warts and all'
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- Monday, April 15, 2013 | CYP Now
Seventeen-year-old Paris Brown quit as the country's first youth crime commissioner in Kent just days after her appointment for posting offensive tweets in her younger days. Her posts were stupid and naïve at the very least, but how many people's adolescence, past and present, are completely free of stupidity?
Child safety happens on the frontline, not expert panels
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | CYP Now
The government's belated publication of revised child protection guidance produced one surprising move.
Families key to success of free childcare plans
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- 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.
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