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Review recommends ‘revision' of YOT funding levels

Thursday, July 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Funding levels for youth offending teams (YOTs) should be ‘revised', a major government-commissioned review has concluded.

LGA hails "momentous" transfer of public health services for under-fives

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Parents will see "massive benefits" for their children as a result of responsibility for public health services for under-fives transferring to local authorities, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said.

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating

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Monday, November 9, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has been given more time to turn services around in the wake of Ofsted judging its children's services department ‘inadequate' twice in two years.

Spending on early intervention faces 71 per cent cut

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

| CYP Now

Government funding for early help services is expected to be cut by 71 per cent, between 2010 and 2020, a study has found.

MPs urged to oppose child support proposals

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| CYP Now

MPs have been urged to oppose controversial changes to child support by a group of organisations including Gingerbread and the Children's Society.

Sibling carers face a battle for support

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Friday, March 18, 2011

| CYP Now

Young people who care for younger siblings face a battle to get support from councils and other agencies, a report has found.

MP calls for emergency housing programme to help families in crisis

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Friday, May 6, 2011

| CYP Now

A housing crisis in the London Borough of Hillingdon has left families living in "developing world conditions", according to the area's MP.

Boost early years support to improve social mobility, commission says

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

| CYP Now

The early years pupil premium should be doubled as part of efforts to combat worsening life chances for children and young people across the UK, the Social Mobility Commission has said.

Payment-by-results outreach service to further bolster support for troubled families

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

| CYP Now

The government has invested 200m in a payment-by-results scheme offering outreach support to the UK's most troubled families.

Low-income families blighted by cost of children's birthday parties

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

| CYP Now

The cost of children's birthday parties is plunging disadvantaged families into financial difficulty, a report has found.

Government to pump £200m more into Troubled Families programme

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Monday, June 24, 2013

| CYP Now

The government is to spend £200m to expand the Troubled Families programme to a further 400,000 families.

Daily roundup: youth unemployment, benefit cap, and mental health

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Government advisers brand Youth Contract a failure; benefit cap not helping struggling households into work research finds; and child mental health survey needs to be reinstated, say psychiatrists, all in the news today.

Family therapists warn against unaccredited practitioners

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

| CYP Now

Families seeking therapy are being misled by inaccurate job titles, the Association for Family Therapy (AFT) has warned.

Major crackdown on FGM to launch in London

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Friday, April 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Women who are victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) are to be referred to children's social services and police as part of a pioneering project intended to prevent a further generation of girls being subjected to the abuse.

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Review recommends ‘revision' of YOT funding levels

LGA hails "momentous" transfer of public health services for under-fives

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

DfE gives council more time to improve after ‘inadequate' Ofsted rating

Spending on early intervention faces 71 per cent cut

MPs urged to oppose child support proposals

Sibling carers face a battle for support

MP calls for emergency housing programme to help families in crisis

Boost early years support to improve social mobility, commission says

Payment-by-results outreach service to further bolster support for troubled families

Low-income families blighted by cost of children's birthday parties

Government to pump £200m more into Troubled Families programme

Daily roundup: youth unemployment, benefit cap, and mental health

Family therapists warn against unaccredited practitioners

Major crackdown on FGM to launch in London

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