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Majority of five-year-olds struggle at school

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  • Friday, February 11, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Fewer than half of five-year-olds in England are considered to have a good level of understanding and behaviour in their first year of school, a review of inequality has found.

Shadow minister wants youth justice shake-up

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  • Thursday, September 26, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Labour's youth justice minister has called for sweeping changes to the way young offenders are dealt with, suggesting that anything that does not work should be ditched.

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).

Daily roundup: Policing, teachers and youth crime

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  • Thursday, April 18, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Nottinghamshire will not get a youth police commissioner; Michael Gove wants teachers to do more admin, and a briefing highlights adult social services' youth justice role, all in the news today.

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