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Renfrewshire Primary Support Project

    Other
  • Tuesday, February 17, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The Renfrewshire Primary Support Project, managed by Action for Children Scotland, offers support to children from eight primary schools in one of Scotland's most deprived areas.

Editorial: A backward step for youth justice

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 24, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The new government's decision to give the Ministry of Justice sole responsibility for youth justice in England and Wales is massively misguided. It ends a three-year spell where responsibility was shared with the former Department for Children, Schools and Families. During that time, as it happens, the youth prison population declined from 2,927 in March 2007 to 2,207 in March 2010.

Antisocial Behaviour

    Other
  • Tuesday, June 3, 2008
  • | CYP Now
Lots of people are affected by antisocial behaviour every day. It is a big problem in disadvantaged areas and can stop them developing.

Youth justice sector in policy limbo

    Other
  • Monday, June 28, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Professionals are demanding clarity on the future direction of youth justice amid concerns that a lack of policy announcements is hampering long-term planning in the sector.

Atkinson speaks out on her role

    Other
  • Monday, July 5, 2010
  • | CYP Now
England's children's commissioner Maggie Atkinson does not want her powers to be extended, remaining satisfied that her office's sole remit is to influence policy.

Equality duty scrapped

    News
  • Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The duty for all public bodies to focus spending and target services on poorer areas, due to be implemented under the 2010 Equalities Act, has been scrapped, Home Secretary and equalities minister Theresa May has announced.

Progress in joint working must go on

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 22, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The decision last week to strip the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) of government funding will inevitably raise concerns that any genuine "development" of the workforce will stall. A plan for how the Department for Education intends to take forward the quango's work is yet to be articulated.

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