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No quick fixes in turning around children's services
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
Management standards, specifically how to deal with inadequate leadership, were very much in the news at the end of December.
Character education can help children succeed
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- Monday, June 22, 2015 | CYP Now
There is a temptation to view character education as part of an agenda by Conservative politicians to take schooling and youth participation back to a bygone era when Victorian values of the British stiff upper lip ruled.
Election result should provide policy clarity
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Other
- Monday, May 11, 2015 | CYP Now
The general election result looks set to be a defining one.
Labour must produce a clear vision for children
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Other
- Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | CYP Now
After a slow start, Labour seems to be finding its feet in opposition. But with a general election a little over a year away, time is running out for the party to produce a coherent policy vision for children, young people and families.
DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers
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- 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
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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
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- 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.
Councils can offer safety net on school standards
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | CYP Now
The drive to put children and families at the centre of services has received a crucial endorsement this month.
Workforce development must survive break-up
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Opinion
- Monday, March 19, 2012 | CYP Now
The lights are about to go out on the Children's Workforce Development Council, with its functions hived off to a number of separate agencies.
Never mind the inspectorate, recruit the right inspectors
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Opinion
- Monday, April 18, 2011 | CYP Now
On the face of it, the education select committee's call to split Ofsted into two separate inspectorates for education and children's care would represent a further step away from services centred on the needs of the whole child. It is a trend played out in several areas through the disappearance of children's trust arrangements and local authority children's services departments.
ECM might be dead in name but its substance endures
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Opinion
- Monday, March 21, 2011 | CYP Now
The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda has been something of a taboo for the past 10 months.
Progress in joint working must go on
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Opinion
- Monday, November 22, 2010 | CYP Now
The decision last week to strip the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) of government funding will inevitably raise concerns that any genuine "development" of the workforce will stall. A plan for how the Department for Education intends to take forward the quango's work is yet to be articulated.
Baton passes to local councillors
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Opinion
- Monday, October 25, 2010 | CYP Now
Its significance takes on epic proportions but the four-year comprehensive spending review was not, in the event, Armageddon.
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