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Three key sector issues for a general election year

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
  • | CYP Now
In all likelihood 2024 will be a general election year, with the outcome at the polls setting the policy agenda for the rest of the decade. For children and families services, three issues could play a key role in the campaign.

We need a national strategy to uphold children’s rights

    Opinion
  • Thursday, November 23, 2023
  • | CYP Now
In May, Children England published the Vision for a ChildFair State, the culmination of four years’ work with a group of young people to define the central pillars of support that should be available to every child in every community.

Tackle child poverty to secure future of NHS

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 20, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Following the NHS’s 75th Birthday in July, commentators from across the political spectrum have been contemplating its future – with some concluding that the challenges are so significant that the patient has been admitted to hospital with the crash team on standby.

There's no evidence for childcare ratios change

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 27, 2023
  • | CYP Now
A decade on from its initial failed attempt, the Conservative government has finally decided to push ahead with plans to increase the number of two-year-olds a childcare practitioner can look after.

Workforce shortage is threat to care reforms

    Opinion
  • Thursday, February 23, 2023
  • | CYP Now
The government's Care Review response, Stable Homes, Built on Love, sets ambitious targets for improving children's outcomes, testing new approaches to early help, and boosting professional standards in child protection work.

Permanency must be key focus of placement making

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Sorting out the myriad problems with the care system has to be a top priority of Education Secretary Gillian Keegan in 2023. Further evidence – if any were needed – that the system is not working well came with two reports on adoption just before Christmas.

Childcare needs bold solutions on funding

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Just a few weeks into her premiership, Prime Minister Liz Truss has demonstrated she is not afraid to take bold but difficult decisions. Removing the cap on bankers’ bonuses, scrapping plans for a UK Bill of Rights and pledging to restart fracking for shale gas to name three.

Families need urgent action on cost of living

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The UK will enter what is tipped to be, in economic terms, the toughest winter in the post-war era amid warnings from organisations like Barnardo’s and Action for Children that vulnerable families will be hit hardest.

Prioritise retention of children’s social workers

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Latest Department for Education workforce figures show the number of vacant social worker posts across children’s services departments in England rose by seven per cent in 2021 to a five-year high – accounting for one in six positions.

University access key to success of levelling up

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
It is a decade since university tuition fees were raised from £3,000 to £9,000 per year. It was feared the rise would deter disadvantaged young people from going to university, yet latest figures from Ucas shows record numbers of 18-year-olds from poorer areas applied this year.

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