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Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices

    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.

Ofsted joint inspections delayed as councils shun pilots

    News
  • Wednesday, October 28, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Ofsted's plans to launch new joint inspections of health, social care and criminal justice services for children and young people have been delayed amid councils declining approaches to take part in trials, it has emerged.

Quiz of the year 2015

    Other
  • Tuesday, December 8, 2015
  • | CYP Now
An election result that defied pollsters, turmoil in children's charity funding and plummeting adoption figures - 2015 was a turbulent year. Test your knowledge of the past 12 months' events in children's services by taking the CYP Now quiz!

UK near bottom of child wellbeing table

    News
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The UK has been ranked near the bottom of a league table of child wellbeing in European countries put together by researchers at the University of York.

Commissioner for Wales is up to the challenge

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 25, 2008
  • | CYP Now
It was an "exceedingly drawn-out" appointments process, according to one Welsh politician. But Keith Towler came through the interviews, both with young people and politicians, to secure the position of children's commissioner for Wales, just under a year after the untimely death of his predecessor Peter Clarke.

Joint working: ContactPoint - The verdict so far

    Other
  • Tuesday, October 6, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The Conservatives have vowed to scrap ContactPoint if they win the next election, and concerns have been raised about information security. But what do some of the local authorities using the controversial database think? Nancy Rowntree finds out.

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