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Clegg admits flaws in child benefit plans

Monday, March 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has confirmed that the government is considering altering the detail of its plans to take child benefit away from higher earners.

Government awards 240,000 to child mental health charity

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

| CYP Now

A charity providing mental health services in schools is to use a government grant of more than 240,000 to test and develop approaches to improving children and families' health and wellbeing.

Child asylum seekers forced to live below poverty line

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Asylum support levels for children and families have left around 10,000 children in severe poverty, because payments fall "alarmingly below" mainstream benefit levels, a report by The Children's Society has found.

One in four troubled families 'not satisfied' with access to services

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

| CYP Now

A quarter of people receiving support through the government's flagship Troubled Families programme have said they were "dissatisfied" with how easy it was to access support.

Tax evasion crackdown 'threatens early intervention'

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Attempts to fund early intervention work through social finance would be compromised by a government bid to crack down on tax evasion through charitable donations, it has been claimed.

Housing benefit criteria found to discriminate against disabled children

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

| CYP Now

A landmark legal judgment has branded current housing benefit rules discriminatory against disabled children.?

All councils sign up for troubled families programme

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Monday, June 11, 2012

| CYP Now

All 152 eligible councils in England have signed up to the government's payment-by-results programme to support families with complex problems.

Cameron's welfare proposals will 'remove safety net' for families in need

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Monday, June 25, 2012

| CYP Now

Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of "perpetuating damaging myths" by signalling greater curbs on welfare support for out-of-work families.

'Terrifying' welfare reforms will drive up care referrals, warns Munro

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| CYP Now

The architect of the government's child protection reforms has warned that changes to welfare policy could inadvertently increase the number of children being referred to social care services.

Troubled families tsar defends government's use of payment-by-results

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| CYP Now

The director general of the troubled families programme has defended the government's use of payment-by-results, after Professor Eileen Munro warned against using the model for schemes relating to families with multiple problems.

Proposed child maintenance levy cut by government

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has reduced the amount it will charge lone parents for using the Child Maintenance Service to secure support payments following widespread opposition to the proposals.

Oxfordshire's children's centres saved from closure

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Monday, December 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Oxfordshire County Council has backtracked over plans to close scores of children's centres, proposing instead to develop a family-focused early intervention service.

Daily roundup: Trafficking, child benefit and children's homes

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Monday, December 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Proposed anti-slavery legislation to be published; Cameron rejects child benefit cap; and consultation launched on children's homes inspection framework, all in the news today.

4Children wants long-term childcare strategy to tackle poverty

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

| CYP Now

Government should pick up the tab for much of the cost of accessing childcare for working people on low incomes, 4Children has said.

Troubled families programme should target siblings of offenders, MPs told

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Involving youth offending services with the government's troubled families agenda could help reduce numbers of young people getting in trouble with the law, MPs have been told.

Commission on Youth reveals scope of its year-long inquiry

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Friday, August 17, 2012

| CYP Now

Young people's relationship with the authorities, family structures, and participation will be the focus of the year-long Commission on Youth, it has emerged.

Innovation projects 'struggle to address social worker recruitment problems'

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

| CYP Now

Projects funded by the Department for Education to test new ways of working in children's social care are struggling to address issues with social worker recruitment and retention, research has found.

MPs and Lords urge right to support for young carers

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Young carers should be given the right to support so that they do not have to carry out inappropriate caring duties, a report by a parliamentary committee has concluded.

Unemployed parents to be turned into childminders

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Friday, April 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Out-of-work parents will be trained to become childminders under a new government-funded programme, CYP Now can reveal.

Paul Ennals to chair Haringey child safeguarding board

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Former National Children's Bureau chief executive Sir Paul Ennals has been appointed as chair of Haringey's Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB).

Domestic violence project to focus on children's needs

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

| CYP Now

More than 700 children who have been affected by domestic violence are to benefit from help and support as part of a £470,000 project being delivered by charity Buttle UK.

Children's directors rally against profit-making in child protection

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Child protection services should not be outsourced to organisations intending to make a profit, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Children's charities attack government child poverty plans

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Friday, June 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has been criticised by children's charities for failing to make any significant changes to its revised child poverty strategy.

Majority of family courts miss 26-week target

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Monday, September 1, 2014

| CYP Now

More than two-thirds of court areas in England have failed to meet a target for care proceedings to be completed within six months.

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly 500 children in Manchester were potentially left at risk because social work assessments were not carried out quickly enough, a report that has rated the city's children's services as "inadequate", has found.

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Clegg admits flaws in child benefit plans

Government awards 240,000 to child mental health charity

Child asylum seekers forced to live below poverty line

One in four troubled families 'not satisfied' with access to services

Tax evasion crackdown 'threatens early intervention'

Housing benefit criteria found to discriminate against disabled children

All councils sign up for troubled families programme

Cameron's welfare proposals will 'remove safety net' for families in need

'Terrifying' welfare reforms will drive up care referrals, warns Munro

Troubled families tsar defends government's use of payment-by-results

Proposed child maintenance levy cut by government

Oxfordshire's children's centres saved from closure

Daily roundup: Trafficking, child benefit and children's homes

4Children wants long-term childcare strategy to tackle poverty

Troubled families programme should target siblings of offenders, MPs told

Commission on Youth reveals scope of its year-long inquiry

Innovation projects 'struggle to address social worker recruitment problems'

MPs and Lords urge right to support for young carers

Unemployed parents to be turned into childminders

Paul Ennals to chair Haringey child safeguarding board

Domestic violence project to focus on children's needs

Children's directors rally against profit-making in child protection

Children's charities attack government child poverty plans

Majority of family courts miss 26-week target

Children's services in Manchester receive 'inadequate' rating

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