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Sadiq Khan announces £8m funding to embed youth workers in emergency departments

Friday, October 7, 2022

| CYP Now

The Mayor of London has announced almost £8 million in funding to embed youth workers in A&E departments across London over the next three years.

Charity receives £5m to support county lines victims

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Thursday, October 6, 2022

| CYP Now

Catch22 has been granted up to £5 million in Home Office funding to continue its work supporting young victims of county lines drug gangs.

Mentoring projects set to benefit from £12.5m fund

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Monday, October 3, 2022

| CYP Now

Projects supporting young people involved in exploitation, crime or serious violence by assigning them a mentor to act as a “trusted adult” can bid for a share of a new grant round launched by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF).

Government policy briefs for children and young people

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

| CYP Now

CYP Now lays out the responsibilities of ministers responsible for services for children and young people.

Kit Malthouse appointed as Education Secretary

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

| CYP Now

Kit Malthouse has been named as the new Education Secretary in Prime Minister Liz Truss’s first cabinet.

Home Office grants funding to Liverpool youth violence programme after shootings

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

| CYP Now

The Home Office has announced a package of support for local authorities in Liverpool to deliver trauma-informed services in schools and violence prevention programmes to young people following a spate of shootings in the city.

Youth work key to London's £5m violence prevention programme

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

| CYP Now

The London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) has shared multi-million pound plans to protect young people from gang involvement as Sadiq Khan warns that the cost-of-living crisis could increase levels of violent crime in the capital.

Interview: Naomi Hulston, Catch 22 chief executive

Features

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

| CYP Now

If knowing the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation is an important aspect of leadership, then Naomi Hulston starts her job as Catch22 chief executive from a good position.

Future Roots: The farm that helps young people grow

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

| CYP Now

Future Roots gives children who struggle to cope in school the chance to learn and develop through farming. Founder Julie Plumley explains how countryside activities help transform young lives.

Redthread chief John Poyton steps down

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

| CYP Now

John Poyton, chief executive of violence prevention charity Redthread, has announced plans to step down from the organisation after two decades.

Young people laud youth work role in tackling trauma

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Friday, June 24, 2022

| CYP Now

Young people have highlighted the importance of youth practitioners showing empathy when working with those who have experienced trauma.

OBE for Sunderland DCS in Queen’s birthday honours

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Monday, June 6, 2022

| CYP Now

Sunderland’s director of children’s services (DCS) Jill Colbert has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s birthday honours.

Sector leaders attend first national youth work and racial justice conference

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Friday, May 20, 2022

| CYP Now

More than 50 black people and people of colour from across the youth work sector gathered for the first conference on youth work and racial justice.

£3m fund to place youth workers in more London police stations

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

| CYP Now

London’s violence reduction unit (VRU) has announced plans to double the number of specialist youth workers placed in the capital’s police stations.

Queen to honour youth organisations with new jubilee award

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Thursday, May 5, 2022

| CYP Now

Twenty charities that support young people are set to be recognised by the Queen as part of her platinum jubilee celebrations.

Longfield commission sets out plan to end ‘perverse exclusion culture’

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Friday, April 29, 2022

| CYP Now

Scrapping the term “pupil referral unit” and banning exclusions for young children are among plans laid out by the former children’s commissioner for England to tackle “exclusion culture” in schools.

Greater understanding of child-to-parent abuse needed across London, Sadiq Khan warns

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

| CYP Now

School exclusions, undiagnosed mental health issues and unidentified special educational needs and disabilities are among the key drivers behind child-to-parent abuse, the mayor of London has said.

Ukrainian refugees thank young people at Feltham YOI for messages of support

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

| CYP Now

Ukrainian refugees have thanked young people at a young offender’s institution (YOI) for sending messages of support amid the war with Russia.

Youth workers feel ‘professionally abandoned’, says director of London’s VRU

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Friday, March 25, 2022

| CYP Now

A decade of cuts to youth services has left youth workers feeling “professionally abandoned and neglected”, according to the director of London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU).

Online Safety Bill: Five key measures aimed at protecting children

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Friday, March 18, 2022

| CYP Now

One of the main aims of the government’s Online Safety Bill is to stop children from accessing inappropriate and harmful content, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Sadiq Khan announces £8m funding to embed youth workers in emergency departments

Charity receives £5m to support county lines victims

Mentoring projects set to benefit from £12.5m fund

Government policy briefs for children and young people

Kit Malthouse appointed as Education Secretary

Home Office grants funding to Liverpool youth violence programme after shootings

Youth work key to London's £5m violence prevention programme

Interview: Naomi Hulston, Catch 22 chief executive

Future Roots: The farm that helps young people grow

Redthread chief John Poyton steps down

Young people laud youth work role in tackling trauma

OBE for Sunderland DCS in Queen’s birthday honours

Sector leaders attend first national youth work and racial justice conference

£3m fund to place youth workers in more London police stations

Queen to honour youth organisations with new jubilee award

Longfield commission sets out plan to end ‘perverse exclusion culture’

Greater understanding of child-to-parent abuse needed across London, Sadiq Khan warns

Ukrainian refugees thank young people at Feltham YOI for messages of support

Youth workers feel ‘professionally abandoned’, says director of London’s VRU

Online Safety Bill: Five key measures aimed at protecting children

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