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Think-tank highlights 'staggering' failings in support for vulnerable children

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities are carrying out "unscrupulous and illegal" practices to restrict the support they provide to vulnerable children in need of social care and mental health services, a think-tank has claimed.

Local Spotlight: Lambeth Council

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

| CYP Now

Corporate commitment to boosting children and young people’s outcomes helps south London borough get back on track.

Daily roundup: Further education, childcare and lone parents

Other

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Details published on vocational alternatives to A-levels; unpaid leave from work should be available to grandparents caring for grandchildren; and study shows impact of austerity on lone parents, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Vocational training, health and parenting

Other

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

| CYP Now

New practical qualifications for school children introduced next year; huge rise in Crohn's disease hospital admissions of young people; and parents warned not to give children alcohol at end of exams, all in the news today.

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

Other

Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders gathered at CYP Now's Early Help Conference to discuss latest policy developments in early help and hear how local areas are developing interventions across a range of settings and age groups.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

News

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

The implications of the Spending Review on services for children

Other

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Measures announced in the Chancellor's Spending Review will result in core funding for councils falling 24 per cent in real terms over the next four years. How will this affect children, young people and their families?

Daily roundup: School absenteeism, new Doncaster DCS, and child abuser concerns

Other

Thursday, May 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Pupils with SEN have higher school absentee rates, troubled Doncaster Council appoints a new director of children's services, and NSPCC issues warning over number of young child abusers, in the news today.

Daily roundup: child poverty, trafficked children, and Peterborough Council

Other

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

| CYP Now

The public believes the government must do more to tackle child poverty, the UK system for identifying trafficked children is flawed, and the improvement notice on Peterborough's children's services is lifted, all in the news today

Daily roundup: Free school meals, vitamin D, and Bedroom Tax

Other

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

| CYP Now

Whitehall raises concerns over viability of free school meals; Nice calls for expansion of use of vitamin D supplements; and judicial review launched into child exemption from Bedroom Tax, all in the news today.

Cut food waste and support food banks to tackle poverty

Other

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

| CYP Now

All the seasonal festivities are now behind us. The Christmas period inevitably saw countless turkeys ordered while the supermarket shelves groaned, ready for the last few days of manic stocking-up.

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?

Daily roundup: housing benefit, Hamzah Khan and Colin Green

News

Thursday, September 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Third of council tenants fall behind with rent since 'bedroom tax' introduced; body of four-year-old Hamzah Khan left in a house for two years, court told; and former Coventry DCS Colin Green joins Tower Hamlets safeguarding children's board, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: child poverty, reading habits and autism support

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

| CYP Now

Child poverty could rise by 800,000 by 2020 warn Oxfam; reading for pleasure link to child academic achievement; and teachers struggle to access autism support, all in the news today.

Outcomes-based commissioner: Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children

Analysis

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes talks to Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children.

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Think-tank highlights 'staggering' failings in support for vulnerable children

Local Spotlight: Lambeth Council

Daily roundup: Further education, childcare and lone parents

Daily roundup: Vocational training, health and parenting

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

The implications of the Spending Review on services for children

Daily roundup: School absenteeism, new Doncaster DCS, and child abuser concerns

Daily roundup: child poverty, trafficked children, and Peterborough Council

Daily roundup: Free school meals, vitamin D, and Bedroom Tax

Cut food waste and support food banks to tackle poverty

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Daily roundup: housing benefit, Hamzah Khan and Colin Green

Daily roundup: child poverty, reading habits and autism support

Outcomes-based commissioner: Jo Cleary, chair of 4Children

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