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Daily roundup: Food poverty, SEN reforms and 'paedophile panic'

Friday, August 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Poorer parents struggle to feed their children during the summer holidays; Department for Education publishes child-friendly guide to the special educational needs reforms; and judge warns of "paedophile panic", all in the news today.

Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

The cost of supporting children in care has reached £3.4bn, according to an Audit Commission report that exposes widespread variation of spending across councils.

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

| CYP Now

A new director of children's services has been appointed by Birmingham City Council to turn around the troubled department.

Councils face £26m shortfall in free school meals pledge

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils are having to divert money from school maintenance budgets to meet a £26m shortfall in the government's free school meal pledge, according to latest research.

Councils fall short in provision of childcare places for two-year-olds

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Monday, August 18, 2014

| CYP Now

CYP Now investigation reveals that more than half of local authorities will have a shortfall of available places when the government's free childcare scheme for disadvantaged two-year-olds expands on 1 September.

Editorial: Quality of childcare should win against race for places

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Monday, August 18, 2014

| CYP Now

A key policy drive to intervene early and boost social mobility comes into force on 1 September - free childcare places for 15 hours a week will expand from 20 per cent to the 40 per cent most disadvantaged two-year-olds.

More than 2,000 youth workers axed in past two years, Unison finds

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Monday, August 11, 2014

| CYP Now

In excess of 2,000 youth worker posts have been cut and 350 youth centres have closed since 2012, according to latest research by Unison.

Daily roundup: Youth centres, children's services and leadership

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Charities set to take on running of Liverpool youth centres; tri-borough arrangements to be reviewed by Labour; and new DCS appointed in Southwark, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: FGM arrest, Walsall Council, and children's centres

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Monday, July 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Two people arrested in suspected FGM case; government lifts improvement notice on Walsall children's services department; and plans announced to reorganise children's centres in Bradford, all in the news today.

Child protection outsourcing plans 'dead in the water', claims Loughton

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Controversial plans to allow councils to outsource child protection services are "dead in the water" following the departure of Michael Gove from the Department for Education, former children's minister Tim Loughton has claimed.

Daily roundup: Haringey Ofsted, early intervention guidebook, and term-time holidays

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Monday, July 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Haringey told to improve children's social care, major early intervention guide launched, and Nicky Morgan pledges to continue tough stance on term-time holidays, all in the news today.

Timpson orders creation of independent trust in Slough

News

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Slough are to be split off from local authority control and run by an independent trust in an attempt to improve performance, children's minister Edward Timpson has said.

First 'innovation' funds handed to tri-borough councils

News

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

| CYP Now

London's tri-borough children's services are to receive £4m from the government's innovation fund, the first award to be made under the initiative.

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's consultation over allowing councils to delegate children's social care services to third parties was insufficient and needs further debate, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on child protection has said.

Government accused of allowing 'back door' privatisation of child protection

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Friday, June 27, 2014

| CYP Now

Private companies will be able to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans via the "back door" by setting up separate subsidiaries, it has been claimed.

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Daily roundup: Food poverty, SEN reforms and 'paedophile panic'

Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

Bernadette McNally appointed Birmingham director of children's services

Councils face £26m shortfall in free school meals pledge

Councils fall short in provision of childcare places for two-year-olds

Editorial: Quality of childcare should win against race for places

More than 2,000 youth workers axed in past two years, Unison finds

Daily roundup: Youth centres, children's services and leadership

Daily roundup: FGM arrest, Walsall Council, and children's centres

Child protection outsourcing plans 'dead in the water', claims Loughton

Daily roundup: Haringey Ofsted, early intervention guidebook, and term-time holidays

Timpson orders creation of independent trust in Slough

First 'innovation' funds handed to tri-borough councils

Outsourcing plans need more debate, warns APPG chair

Government accused of allowing 'back door' privatisation of child protection

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