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Legal Update: No recourse to public funds

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  • Monday, September 1, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Local authorities are supporting children in destitute families who cannot access benefits, housing or homelessness assistance, says Anita Hurrell, legal and policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

Children's social workers face knowledge test

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  • Thursday, July 31, 2014
    • | CYP Now
New children's social workers will have to pass a test of their knowledge in order to become an approved practitioner as part of government attempts to improve the quality of the profession, it has been announced.

Councils must build on youth housing solutions

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  • Monday, May 26, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The 10 per cent rise in house prices in England reported last week was widely seen as another sign that the economy is recovering from the deepest recession in living memory. Good news for home owners certainly, but soaring property prices are making it harder for young people to not just get on the housing ladder, but branch out into independent living generally.

Good Idea: Homeless youth create forum to engage MPs

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  • Tuesday, February 4, 2014
    • | CYP Now
This 100-strong forum is helping young people who are, or have experience of, being homeless raise the profile of youth homelessness by meeting ministers and MPs to explain about the problem and directly lobby for policy changes that will improve support.

YMCA chief criticises housing benefit cut plans

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  • Wednesday, January 8, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The boss of the UK's largest provider of supported accommodation for young people has warned the government that cutting housing benefit for under-25s will not solve the problem of long-term youth unemployment.

The house that Daniel built

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  • Tuesday, December 17, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Homeless young people renovate empty homes and then move in under a scheme launched by charity Centrepoint. Jo Stephenson visits the first property and meets the lads who will live there.

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