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School mental health plans need an update
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Opinion
- Sunday, April 28, 2024 | CYP Now
The idea for mental health support teams (MHSTs) to bridge the gap between school counselling services and specialist therapeutic support in the community came out of the children’s mental health green paper published in 2017 by Theresa May’s government. Plans to introduce MHSTs in a third of schools and colleges by 2023 and to half by 2025 were confirmed the following summer.
Protect youth work by enacting statutory duty
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Opinion
- Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | CYP Now
When statutory agencies failed to intervene when young girls were being sexually abused by gangs of men in Rochdale it was youth workers who raised the alarm.
Reward longevity to retain and attract childcare staff
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Opinion
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | CYP Now
It is good news that the Department for Education has now launched a national campaign promoting childcare careers. It follows years of lobbying for such a measure from early education organisations.
Councils need bigger budgets, not handouts
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Opinion
- Sunday, January 28, 2024 | CYP Now
The £600m of extra funding to ease the pressures facing local authorities is the latest example of the government being forced to bail out financially stricken councils.
Three key sector issues for a general election year
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Opinion
- Wednesday, January 3, 2024 | CYP Now
In all likelihood 2024 will be a general election year, with the outcome at the polls setting the policy agenda for the rest of the decade. For children and families services, three issues could play a key role in the campaign.
We need a national strategy to uphold children’s rights
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Opinion
- Thursday, November 23, 2023 | CYP Now
In May, Children England published the Vision for a ChildFair State, the culmination of four years’ work with a group of young people to define the central pillars of support that should be available to every child in every community.
Quicker care proceedings can give children certainty
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Opinion
- Thursday, October 19, 2023 | CYP Now
Being subject to care proceedings is a distressing time for any child – it creates anxiety, disrupts relationships and damages schooling.
Children England’s demise highlights failing ‘market’
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- Thursday, September 21, 2023 | CYP Now
Following the collapse in 2016 of children’s charity 4Children, Kathy Evans, chief executive of Children England warned that “the serious financial fragility of the children’s services ‘marketplace’ is a very real and urgent problem for large and small organisations alike”.
Minsters must work with sector to save residentials
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Opinion
- Thursday, August 31, 2023 | CYP Now
The government's National Youth Guarantee pledges that by 2025 every young person in England aged 11 to 18 will have access to adventures away from home.
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