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National safety net for SEND funding needed
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 26, 2017 | CYP Now
There are few more emotive issues than school funding. The government was reminded of this earlier in the year when, in the run-up to the general election, it was forced to backtrack on plans for a national funding formula over concerns the changes would see many schools lose money. To address this, the government pledged in the summer an extra £1.3bn from existing Department for Education coffers to plug the hole in the schools budget. It means that under the revised national formula, published in September (News, p4), every school will now receive a per-pupil funding rise. Few would argue that the formula needed changing, but questions remain about whether its replacement will solve the current crisis.
Youth violence response needs local co-ordination
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | CYP Now
The government is to invest £11m to develop new youth violence prevention projects as part of its £40m, two-year Serious Violence Strategy.
Youth Contract scheme must get the right results
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Opinion
- Monday, March 5, 2012 | CYP Now
The government's attempt to get the most vulnerable 16- and 17-year-olds into education, training or work as part of its Youth Contract is welcome, although not before time.
Riot response requires long-term solutions, not knee-jerk policies
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Opinion
- Monday, August 22, 2011 | CYP Now
The violence across English cities this month triggered its own riot - of condemnation, debate and knee-jerk policy pronouncements. In the days that followed the first outbreak in Tottenham, an exercise in national soul searching took place through the media. Yours truly, for one, did the breakfast TV paper review on Sky News.
Editorial: Cuts to council funding create a fool's economy
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Other
- Tuesday, January 6, 2015 | CYP Now
There was little festive cheer in the draft local government funding settlement for 2015/16 delivered by ministers just before the Christmas break.
Labour recognises need for cross-government solutions
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Other
- Tuesday, March 3, 2015 | CYP Now
The last few weeks have seen Labour break cover on some of the pledges it intends to take to the electorate at the general election in May.
We need wide debate on use of weapons detectors
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 26, 2021 | CYP Now
Safety of public servants is very much in the spotlight following the tragic killing of David Amess MP.
Tackle child poverty to secure future of NHS
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Opinion
- Thursday, July 20, 2023 | CYP Now
Following the NHS’s 75th Birthday in July, commentators from across the political spectrum have been contemplating its future – with some concluding that the challenges are so significant that the patient has been admitted to hospital with the crash team on standby.
It's the preventative services, stupid
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | CYP Now
Bill Clinton unseated George Bush (Senior) in the 1992 US presidential election owing partly to the slogan, "It's the economy, stupid".
Girls still need a space just to be girls
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Opinion
- Monday, September 28, 2009 | CYP Now
It would be easy to assume that girls' youth work was thriving given the widespread coverage of last month's Girlguiding UK centenary celebrations.
Education is the antidote to racism
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | CYP Now
The bear-baiting of British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin in his recent appearance on Question Time did nothing to advance race relations in our country.
It's time to respect children's rights
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | CYP Now
You wait ages for one 20th anniversary, then three come along at once. We've just marked the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1989 Children Act. And this week it is 20 years since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child came into existence.
Editorial: Don't let this latest death in custody be in vain
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 4, 2007 | CYP Now
Just after seven o'clock last Thursday morning (29 November), a 15-year-old boy was found hanging in his cell at Lancaster Farms Young Offender Institution (YOI).
The next commissioner needs bite
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has fired the starting gun to recruit a children's commissioner for England to succeed Sir Al Aynsley-Green early next year.
Editorial: Youth justice system needs a review
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | CYP Now
It is 100 years since the 1908 Children's Act ushered in radical changes to the treatment of young offenders.
Editorial: A youth work approach to education
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 10, 2008 | CYP Now
This month we've made the slightly controversial decision to look at the work of a college as opposed to a youth project (see p14).
Hidden costs of payment-by-results
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Opinion
- Monday, July 5, 2010 | CYP Now
We are in an age of austerity where outcomes are critical. So it is difficult to take issue in raw principle with the government's desire to commission more public services on a payment-by-results basis.
Abolition of YJB is difficult to justify
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Opinion
- Monday, October 18, 2010 | CYP Now
The government's decision to scrap the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in last week's "bonfire of the quangos" is bewildering. In recent years, since the welcome demise of New Labour's Respect agenda, the YJB has helped to reduce first-time entrants to the criminal justice system and the youth custody population has come down.
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