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Careers Advice and Guidance – Key policy developments

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  • Tuesday, November 28, 2023
  • | CYP Now
All secondary schools and colleges are under a duty to provide careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) to pupils from years 7 to 13, and to those aged up to 25 with an education, health and care plan (EHCP).

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Education

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  • Friday, September 1, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Education support staff, such as teaching assistants, mental health workers and special educational needs co-ordinators (Sencos) have faced a number of challenges in 2023, including increased demand for support.

SLC on the agenda

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  • Tuesday, July 25, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Last year, the Department for Education announced a £180m support package to improve the teaching of children’s early speech, language and numeracy, along with professional development to build strong leadership skills and improve the understanding of children’s development.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Education

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The government’s schools white paper, published in March 2022, includes plans for funded training for a senior mental health lead in every school and the provision of six million tutoring courses by 2024.

International Focus: Autism support, New Zealand

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  • Tuesday, June 21, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Emily Niner visited New Zealand to see how agencies there deliver post-diagnostic support to children and young people with autism, and explore what practices could be replicated by services in the UK.

Digital Solutions: Policy context

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  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Covid-19 pushed children’s services providers to reimagine how they work with each other and the families they’re looking to support and protect.

Policy context: Access to the outdoors

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  • Tuesday, March 29, 2022
  • | CYP Now
According to the Children’s People and Nature Survey (C-PANS) published by Natural England in February, 96 per cent of children said they spent time outside (somewhere other than their garden) at least once a week in August 2021.

Sustainable Services: Policy context

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  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
  • | CYP Now
There are numerous studies showing how events like floods, fires, drought and harm to animals as a result of habitat destruction are affecting the mental health of young people, who now face even more uncertainty about their future because of the pandemic.

Pastoral leadership

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  • Tuesday, February 23, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Schools play a crucial role in shaping children’s lives beyond purely academic achievement, so the importance of pastoral care in the healthy development of young people cannot be underestimated.

Research - Report: Care-experienced Young People and Higher Education

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  • Tuesday, July 28, 2020
  • | CYP Now
In the UK, children and young people who have been in care are significantly less likely to progress into higher education. Researchers from Cardiff University’s Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (Cascade) set out to explore the expectations of young people in care when it came to higher education and how expectations change over time.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2020
  • | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

Character Education in UK Schools

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  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
The following executive summary provides a critical appraisal of why we need to reflect on the educational and wider context and associated moral behaviours when developing our understanding of character education.

Assessing suitable education at home

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  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has reminded councils they must be clear with parents of home-schooled children whether home visits are routine or triggered by specific concerns.

Achievement for All, Social Impact Assessment Report

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  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
During 2011-2016, PwC led an independent evaluation report investigating the work carried out by Achievement for All in improving the educational outcomes of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged pupils in school.