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Benefits of funded childcare need selling

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2018
    • | CYP Now
When searching for reasons for the low take-up of funded childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds in England, debate has focused on whether providers are being adequately remunerated to create sufficient places.

Strategy must boost youth opportunities

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 28, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The government's long-awaited Civil Society Strategy recognises the "transformational impact that youth services and trained youth workers" can have on disadvantaged young people.

Letters to the Editor: Youth work focus does not go far enough

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Having a statement or policy on youth work, however limited, has been a long time coming. Not since Positive for Youth have we had a definitive refresh of the government's approach to young people, and it looks like the ongoing influence of the youth voice movement, and youth services lobby, has been heard in some quarters.

Incentives are key to halt school exclusions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The education committee's report on exclusions and alternative provisions makes it abundantly clear that the current system is failing some children, and that rising exclusion rates are a reflection of this.

Lessons for commissioners from Carillion

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Between the spectacle of President Trump's visit and the drama of Brexit, it would have been easy to miss the report from the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) on the lessons for politicians and public service commissioners following the collapse of Carillion.

LGA study is basis for fairer funding debate

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Having worked at a senior level in a shire county (Somerset), a large city (Birmingham), and a medium-sized unitary (Dudley), I didn't need research to tell me that they are all very different.

We need a broad definition of children in need

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 29, 2018
    • | CYP Now
When the government announced its review of children in need, a legal definition of children supported by social care who have safeguarding and welfare needs, we hoped it would have a wide remit and seek to understand how well these children's needs are being met.

Grenfell must bequeath legacy of collaboration

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 29, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Looking for silver linings to come out of a disaster such as Grenfell Tower would be churlish. However, the way community groups and charities have responded to the tragedy, which claimed 71 lives, 19 of them children, on 14 June last year, is an example of what can be achieved when organisations work in collaboration.

For NCS to prosper it must be compared

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The recurrent assertions by the government that the National Citizen Service (NCS) has not replaced "traditional" youth services have been, quite rightly, viewed as disingenuous.

Will new ministers have any new ideas?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018
    • | CYP Now
It is still too early to offer any well-informed predictions of what to expect from new Education Secretary Damian Hinds and his ministers at the Department for Education.

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