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Education for offenders has to make the grade

    Other
  • Tuesday, February 19, 2013
    • | CYP Now
The government's desire to put education at the centre of youth custody and tackle the stubbornly high reoffending rates - still in excess of 70 per cent - is, on the face of it, welcome.

DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers

    Other
  • 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

    Opinion
  • 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

    Other
  • 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.

Cuts spell the end of early intervention as we know it

    Other
  • Monday, October 15, 2012
    • | CYP Now
The proposed removal of the Early Intervention Grant to local authorities might not attract the same level of attention as other headline-grabbing plans, such as the abolition of housing benefit for under-25s, but it is without doubt one of the scandals of the year - the policy itself and the way it was (not) communicated.

Children's home system is in urgent need of care

    Other
  • Monday, July 9, 2012
    • | CYP Now
The government's welcome resolve to tackle child sexual exploitation in the wake of the notorious Rochdale child-grooming ring has, inevitably, opened a can of worms over the treatment of children in residential care.

Minuses outscore pluses on adoption scorecards

    Other
  • Monday, June 11, 2012
    • | CYP Now
As part of its endeavour to speed up the adoption process, the government last month introduced scorecards to rank councils on their performance in placing children in adoptive homes.

Child sexual exploitation victims must be heard

    Other
  • Monday, May 14, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Child sexual exploitation is often described as one of the great "hidden" scourges in society. But it was propelled into the spotlight in all its sickening brutality last week after nine men from Rochdale and Oldham were sentenced to jail, having plied vulnerable girls with drugs and alcohol and passed ?them around for sex.

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