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Bristol youth services outsourced in £22m deal
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News
- Friday, September 28, 2012 | CYP Now
A major reorganisation of young people's services in Bristol has resulted in £22m of contracts being awarded for provision over the next five years.
Daily roundup: Protecting social workers online, school places and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
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- Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | CYP Now
Social workers call for protection from online abuse, Stephen Twigg advocates for local authority oversight of school place planning, and Channel 4 adverts banned for negative depictions of children, all in the news today.
Children's services procurement 'too costly and bureaucratic'
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News
- Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | CYP Now
Organisations representing 400 providers of services for children have called on Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to address the spiralling cost and bureaucracy of delivering services on behalf of local authorities.
Give councils more powers to help underperforming schools
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- Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | CYP Now
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for local school commissioners to be introduced to co-ordinate the creation of new school places, support and challenge academies, and broker school improvement services.
Front of Mind
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Features
- Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | CYP Now
Increased political profile and a new care framework offer a chance to improve children's mental health services. Louise Hunt examines the prospects and looks at the innovative work of local projects.
Understanding youth work's impact
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- Tuesday, March 3, 2015 | CYP Now
The Centre for Youth Impact aims to develop new ways to understand the benefits youth work brings.
Tory council boss hits out at government over Ofsted grading
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News
- Thursday, May 21, 2015 | CYP Now
The leader of a council where children's services were graded "inadequate" by Ofsted has blamed central government for falling standards.
Councils and charities absorb the impact of Whitehall spending cuts
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- Monday, June 22, 2015 | CYP Now
Recent cuts to government department budgets look set to be the start of a new round of austerity in public sector spending. Three experts outline the impact these cuts will have and offer ideas on how the effect can be minimised.
'Baffling' DfE report raises fears over free childcare expansion
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- Monday, October 12, 2015 | CYP Now
A Department for Education review has been unable to quantify the costs of providing childcare, prompting concerns from the early years sector that the planned expansion of the free entitlement will be underfunded.
Unregistered children’s homes: Legal Update
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Features
- Thursday, January 2, 2020 | CYP Now
As the number of children being taken into care continues to rise, Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at concerns regarding unregulated and unregistered children’s homes.
Coronavirus: campaigners warn on capacity of children’s charities
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Analysis
- Monday, March 30, 2020 | CYP Now
Amid the response to the Covid-19 crisis, third sector leaders have called on the government to prioritise economic assistance for children’s charities so they can meet the rising support needs of vulnerable groups.
Technology in Children's Services: Policy context
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- Tuesday, March 31, 2020 | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.
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.
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