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Letters to the Editor: Webinar for childcare providers

    Opinion
  • Friday, January 1, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Managing an early years and childcare setting, whether it be a home-based childminder, out of school club, a small voluntary playgroup, a nursery or a chain, a school or children’s centre, is a complex task. It is one of balancing quality, health and safety, with parents’ and children’s needs, funding and fees, and business sustainability.

Sport can tackle the problem of youth justice disproportionality

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
    • | CYP Now
In the 12 months before March 2020, children from black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) backgrounds made up more than half the population in youth custody. In 2018/19, white children committed 61 per cent of all serious offences, but only accounted for 51 per cent of children in custody according to the Youth Justice Board’s Exploring Racial Disparity report.

Custody staff need crisis communication training

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 29, 2020
    • | CYP Now
The Independent review of the use of pain-inducing techniques – published over the summer – in short hasn’t told us anything we didn’t know before and the heart of the recommendations are simply echoes of previous reports that still haven’t been enacted.

Care experience central to England review

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
    • | CYP Now
The new government has committed to conduct a review of the children’s care system. We are at a pivotal point: 30 years on from the game-changing 1989 Children Act, this review will either go down in history as being another major turning point or a damp squib.

England needs in-depth and speedy care review

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
    • | CYP Now
The government has pledged to undertake a review of the care system “to make sure all care placements and settings are providing children and young adults with the support they need”.

Supply and demand mismatch in adoption

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
    • | CYP Now
When I read the government’s letter exhorting councils to prioritise the adoption of children in care, I groaned inwardly and muttered: “Here we go again.”

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