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Give sector tools to tackle looming crisis
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Opinion
- Thursday, December 1, 2022 | CYP Now
The Children & Young People Now Awards champions brilliant and innovative practice across the sector.
There's no evidence for childcare ratios change
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Opinion
- Monday, March 27, 2023 | CYP Now
A decade on from its initial failed attempt, the Conservative government has finally decided to push ahead with plans to increase the number of two-year-olds a childcare practitioner can look after.
Longfield has set high bar for commissioners
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 23, 2021 | CYP Now
Anne Longfield signed off her six-year stint as children’s commissioner for England with a scathing attack on the Treasury’s lack of understanding of children.
Commit to tuition to close attainment gap
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Opinion
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | CYP Now
Ministers have consistently stated they will be guided by the scientific evidence when making decisions on how to respond to the pandemic.
Today’s big challenges need collective efforts
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Opinion
- Wednesday, December 22, 2021 | CYP Now
We start 2022 with a feeling of déjà vu. The emergence of the Omicron variant has derailed the fragile recovery from the pandemic and once again raised the possibility of children’s education being disrupted by school closures and Covid isolation.
Children’s commissioning needs pragmatic solutions
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | CYP Now
Derren Hayes editor, Children & Young People Nowderren.hayes@markallengroup.com
Sure Start is worth shouting about
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Opinion
- Monday, February 8, 2010 | CYP Now
The post-war Labour government bequeathed us the NHS. Under New Labour, the creation of Sure Start children's centres is the one public service programme to stand any resemblance to that achievement.
Family help will work for generations
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Opinion
- Monday, March 1, 2010 | CYP Now
Our main feature this week focuses on how Family Intervention Projects (FIPs) are turning many lives around. FIPs are in vogue. The Prime Minister pledged to extend them to 50,000 of the most chaotic families last autumn. And there is a rich seam of evidence now emerging that FIPs work. The latest evaluations suggest that two-thirds of families are no longer involved in antisocial behaviour as a result.
Editorial: Childcare proposals have political importance
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | CYP Now
The think-tank Policy Exchange has proposed a bold alternative to childcare funding for under-threes this week, signalling a clear challenge to the present system. As revealed by CYP Now last week, and followed up in this edition (p13), the Little Britons report calls for the creation of a universal Parental Care Allowance (PCA) of 50 to 60 a week per child. It would be financed through the abolitions of the childcare element of the working tax credit, electronic vouchers for childcare payments and the Sure Start Maternity Grant.
Children in care need to be heard
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | CYP Now
Young people from the UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) debated in the House of Commons chamber last Friday, the first body of people other than MPs to occupy the green benches.
Sure Starts need poverty training
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News
- Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | CYP Now
Children's centre workers should be given training on the impact of poverty and disadvantage on family life to help achieve Sure Start's goals.
Opinion: We must not lose sight of Sure Start's aim
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | CYP Now
There has been much debate in recent weeks about the effectiveness of the government's Sure Start children's centre programme.
Prevention is first line of protection
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Opinion
- Tuesday, March 17, 2009 | CYP Now
Lord Laming's report on the state of child protection has injected great urgency in efforts to keep children safe from abuse and neglect. All 58 of his recommendations to improve practice through better procedures, training and lines of accountability have been accepted by the government. The spotlight is on child protection like rarely before.
Give youth work freedom to deliver
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | CYP Now
A campaign is brewing to tackle the feeling that policymakers are strangling the life out of youth work. It has been sparked by an open letter by social commentator Tony Taylor, In Defence of Youth Work.
Editorial: 2020 workforce vision is a bit fuzzy
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | CYP Now
A turbulent year for the sector culminated this week with the publication of the long-anticipated 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy.
Early help must be at the heart of our child protection system
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Opinion
- Monday, May 16, 2011 | CYP Now
Eileen Munro's long-awaited review is a sound body of work that if accepted by government ought to improve the protection of children in England.
A stab in the back for Connexions
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Opinion
- Monday, September 13, 2010 | CYP Now
The Local Government Association (LGA) last week issued research purporting to show the overwhelming majority of young people find formal careers advice only "a little bit" or "not at all" helpful.
Innovative councils can help end rise in care applications
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Other
- Tuesday, September 27, 2016 | CYP Now
The record monthly rise in care applications in August continued the upwards trend that first began in early 2014.
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