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Ask the Experts: Be smart on your return to work
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- Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | CYP Now
Our expert panel offers advice on returning to work after absence, effective nursery websites, personal boundaries and young refugees.
Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
CYP Now has collected the views of children's services experts from a range of backgrounds to hear what they think the key challenges and opportunities will be in 2016 across services for children, young people and families.
Providers of children's centres look at new models to offset budget cuts
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
As local authority data reveals a doubling of cuts in spending on children's centres, forcing them to prioritise the protection of statutory functions, a DfE report suggests that councils' ability to do this is being stretched to the limit.
Ask the Experts: Suspected theft in the workplace
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- Tuesday, December 8, 2015 | CYP Now
Our panel offers advice on investigating theft, youth club discussions, pupil premium use and safeguarding in the "night-time economy".
Peers vote for full funding review into free childcare expansion
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- Thursday, October 15, 2015 | CYP Now
The government must carry out a thorough review of how it will fund the expanded free childcare entitlement before peers will give it their backing.
Focus on market risks losing sight of the child
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- Monday, September 28, 2015 | CYP Now
There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis,
p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's
services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).
Meagre pay could spark nursery staff shortage
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- Friday, July 24, 2015 | CYP Now
Low rates of pay could trigger a future shortage of nursery staff and undermine the government's expansion of free childcare provision, researchers have warned.
Conservatives offer funding boost for free childcare scheme
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- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 | CYP Now
The Conservative Party has promised to increase funding rates to early years providers, as part of its manifesto pledge to offer 30 hours of free childcare a week.
How charities can demonstrate social value to commissioners
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- Tuesday, March 17, 2015 | CYP Now
The way public services are commissioned is undergoing considerable change, but charities pitched into competition for funding with private companies have a possible advantage - as long as they can demonstrate the additional social values they provide above and beyond the primary aims of a project.
Children's centres bear brunt of Newcastle service cuts
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- Friday, March 6, 2015 | CYP Now
Newcastle City Council has approved £3.2m worth of cuts to Sure Start and family services.
Greater focus on baby support for Central Bedfordshire children's centres
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- Monday, October 20, 2014 | CYP Now
Central Bedfordshire Council has voted to keep all nine of the area's children's centres open but with a greater focus on support for families with babies.
Children's centres funding cut by £400m in three years
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- Friday, September 26, 2014 | CYP Now
Spending on children's centres and early years services has been slashed by more than £400m in the space of just three years, government figures show.
Daily roundup: Children's services, funding, and nursery education
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- Thursday, September 11, 2014 | CYP Now
Doncaster's children's trust close to launch; £5.8m of extra children's services funds approved in Bucks; and attending nursery gives children advantage in later life, all in the news today.
Greenwich outsources all its children's centres
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- Tuesday, March 25, 2014 | CYP Now
The Royal Borough of Greenwich has selected a mixture of schools, charities and a leisure trust to run its 24 children's centres from April this year.
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