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Dozens of councils ignore youth service legal duty

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Less than half of local authorities always take into account their legal duty to provide sufficient support for young people when making decisions about youth service funding, survey findings show.

Youth clubs key to children's wellbeing, finds survey

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Friday, July 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Children and young people who attend youth clubs will be happier and healthier than those who do not, a survey suggests.

Shadow minister backs youth-led anti-crime campaign

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Friday, April 11, 2014

| CYP Now

A youth-led anti-knife and gun campaign has won backing from Labour's shadow minister for communities and local government.

Charities win £11m to boost social action

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Forty-one voluntary and community sector organisations are to gain a share of £11m from the Cabinet Office to encourage young people to participate in social action.

Regional youth work units defiant in the face of cuts

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Friday, August 30, 2013

| CYP Now

Regional youth work unit leaders say they have survived three years of cuts and are now increasing young people's involvement in service delivery.

Arts groups launch programme to reach vulnerable young people

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Friday, August 23, 2013

| CYP Now

A £1m programme to engage disadvantaged young people in arts and cultural activities has been launched in five English regions.

CYP Now investigates the state of youth work provision

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Children & Young People Now is calling on youth project managers to take part in an important study looking at how their work is bearing up in the tough economic climate.

Gove confirms DfE could relinquish responsibility for youth policy

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Friday, March 1, 2013

| CYP Now

The government is considering shifting responsibility for youth policy from the Department for Education to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), Education Secretary Michael Gove has confirmed.

Councils slash youth services spending by a quarter

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on youth services has dropped by more than 25 per cent in the space of just a year, government figures have revealed.

Sector raises 'huge concerns' over government approach to youth policy

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Monday, January 28, 2013

| CYP Now

A lack of government interest in youth services is marginalising young people and risks triggering social unrest, leading figures in the sector have warned.

Gove ‘fails to visit any youth project' during time at DfE

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Monday, January 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Education Secretary Michael Gove has failed to visit a single youth project in his two and a half years in charge of the Department for Education, a list drawn up by civil servants has revealed.

Children's commissioner for Wales attacks youth service cuts

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

| CYP Now

The children's commissioner for Wales has called for urgent action to protect youth services, amid fears that young people are suffering as a result of swingeing cuts.

Pioneering youth service mutual gets green light

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Monday, July 23, 2012

| CYP Now

A London borough is poised to launch the first employee-led youth services mutual after the concept was rubberstamped by politicians.

Tool to help youth sector prove its worth unveiled

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

| CYP Now

Moves to boost investment in youth work have taken a step forward with the publication of a guide to help the sector measure outcomes.

Revised youth service guidance still too vague, sector says

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Monday, July 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Guidance on local youth provision remains too vague according to leading youth sector figures, despite revisions made following a consultation.

U-turn on youth club closures in Derbyshire

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

| CYP Now

Youth clubs will remain open and the jobs of youth workers will be saved after a U-turn by Derbyshire County Council on planned cuts.

Consultation feedback sparks rethink on youth service restructure

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Hundreds of responses to a consultation on the future of youth services in Kent have led the council to revise plans by boosting the provision of youth work in schools and retain control of two youth clubs.

Youth organisations urged to overcome fears of working with businesses

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Friday, January 6, 2012

| CYP Now

Scepticism over companies' motives for working with youth groups must be overcome to successfully deliver improved services, a charity central to the government's youth policy has warned.

Councils begin to develop youth innovation zones

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

| CYP Now

Devolving power to frontline staff and placing young people at the centre of decision-making will be central to delivering youth services in the newly announced "youth innovation zones".

Government's youth policy 'lacks bite', claims Catch22

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Monday, December 19, 2011

| CYP Now

Leaders of youth services are being urged to drive improvements for young people after accusations that the government's youth policy lacks bite.

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Dozens of councils ignore youth service legal duty

Youth clubs key to children's wellbeing, finds survey

Shadow minister backs youth-led anti-crime campaign

Charities win £11m to boost social action

Regional youth work units defiant in the face of cuts

Arts groups launch programme to reach vulnerable young people

CYP Now investigates the state of youth work provision

Gove confirms DfE could relinquish responsibility for youth policy

Councils slash youth services spending by a quarter

Sector raises 'huge concerns' over government approach to youth policy

Gove ‘fails to visit any youth project' during time at DfE

Children's commissioner for Wales attacks youth service cuts

Pioneering youth service mutual gets green light

Tool to help youth sector prove its worth unveiled

Revised youth service guidance still too vague, sector says

U-turn on youth club closures in Derbyshire

Consultation feedback sparks rethink on youth service restructure

Youth organisations urged to overcome fears of working with businesses

Councils begin to develop youth innovation zones

Government's youth policy 'lacks bite', claims Catch22

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