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Investor in opportunity - Ian Ferguson CBE, chairman, Rathbone

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

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"I'm an egalitarian Scot. I absolutely believe that you've got to provide good education and good opportunities for 100 per cent of young people," says Ferguson.

Phyllis Dunipace, director of children's services, London Borough of Lambeth: Lambeth calling

Features

Monday, February 1, 2010

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Phyllis Dunipace, director of children's services (DCS) in Lambeth, south London, is retiring. But her 23 years of experience in public services will not be going to waste.

Interview: Andy Burnham, shadow education secretary

Features

Monday, October 25, 2010

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Andy Burnham is still in migration phase, getting to grips with the role of shadow education secretary after moving from his previous brief in government on health. But the enthusiasm he holds for his new post is clear.

Interview: Schools for the future - Dr Hilary Emery, executive director, TDA

Features

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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Schools are in the dark about the role of the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), inspectorate Ofsted said in a report last week. The report, on the wider schools workforce, also revealed concerns about career-development and performance management.

Interview: Education select committee chair Robin Walker MP

Features

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

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Fiona Simpson speaks to the Conservative MP and education select committee chair.

Interview: All together now - Ed Balls Secretary of State forChildren, Schools and Families

Features

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

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Ed Balls faces a bulging in-tray having returned from holiday with his young family last week.

Interview: Space in the city - Nicky Gavron, deputy mayor of London

Features

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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Some of the biggest problems facing children in the UK are at their worst in London - from shocking levels of child poverty and escalating youth crime to sky-high childcare costs and a shortage of play spaces.

The play fighter - Nick Jackson, play development manager, The Learning Trust

Features

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Nick Jackson is recounting the tale of his brief flirtation with prime-time television.

Interview: The art of engagement - Paul Collard, chief executive, Creativity, Culture & Education

Features

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Two years ago, The Children's Plan announced Labour's intention to set up a youth culture trust. This body would run and promote cultural activities and provide young people with a "cultural offer", equating to five hours of creative and cultural activity every week.

Save the parents - Simon Milligan, parent support adviser, Durham Community Business College

Features

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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Simon Milligan faces a tough challenge: to change entrenched attitudes among the parents of children attending the Durham secondary school where he works and its six feeder primaries.

Interview: Nick Wilson, director of children's services, Surrey Council Council

Features

Friday, June 10, 2011

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Surrey's new director of children's services Nick Wilson talks to CYP Now about his attempts to cope with the coalition's ever-shifting policy landscape and the county's journey since its damning 2008 joint area review.

Interview: Baroness Beverley Hughes, Labour peer

Features

Friday, October 8, 2010

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Beverley Hughes, the former children's minister who was awarded a peerage in May, is preparing to get stuck into her new role in the House of Lords, in which she says her old brief will be her top priority.

How well is the careers advice system meeting children’s needs?

Features

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

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Robin Walker MP, chair of the education select committee, speaks to Derren Hayes about the inquiry into careers education and the need to improve support for disadvantaged learners.

Lead member supreme - Shireen Ritchie, chair of the children and young people board, LGA

Features

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Shireen Ritchie's mother was adopted. So when she was elected to the council, she wanted to sit on the adoption and fostering panel.

Mr Pugnacious - Barry Sheerman MP, chairman, Children, Schools and Families Select Committee

Features

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Barry Sheerman bridles at recent suggestions that the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee carries little influence. "Some irritating journalist said that select committees make no difference but I don't believe it," he says.

Interview: Happier families: Elspeth Bromiley, family therapist for children and adults, Liverpool City Council.

Features

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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Coaching for leaders - Steve Munby, chief executive, National College for School Leadership

Features

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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Leaders of children's and young people's services are facing challenges from all sides. Politicians have upped the ante on safeguarding, the 14 to 19 reforms herald new demands and the recession is forcing councils to slash budgets, while managing an increased demand for services.

Meet the president - Kim Bromley-Derry, president, Association of Directors of Children's Services.

Features

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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Kim Bromley-Derry has just left a meeting with the children's inter-agency group. He's had a busy day, but has managed to squeeze in half an hour for our interview.

Interview: Rob Williams, chief executive, 11 Million - Power to the young people

Features

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

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You read it here first. Manchester United will be taken over on Friday.

Interview: A glance at a Tory future - Michael Gove, shadow secretary for children, schools and families

Features

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

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Sitting in the foyer of Blackpool's Hilton Hotel, the shadow secretary for children, schools and families, Michael Gove is full of enthusiasm for the plans the Conservative Party has for young people.

Interview - Keep Britain tidy - Bill Bryson, president, Campaign to Protect Rural England

Features

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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Bill Bryson doesn't regard himself as a role model for young people. On the issue of engaging them in the Campaign to Protect Rural England's current drive to stop littering, he admits: "What a campaign like this needs is for young people to be hearing from someone who isn't an old fart like me. It's no good me looking to young people to join the campaign. They aren't going to do something just because I say so."

Interview: Kate Fallon, general secretary, Association of Educational Psychologists

Features

Monday, February 7, 2011

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From advising parents and teachers on autism to working with children in early years settings and schools, educational psychologists carry out one of the most varied and specialist roles in children's services.

Interview: John Dunford, general secretary, Association of School and College Leaders

Features

Friday, July 23, 2010

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That Education Secretary Michael Gove chose teaching union veteran John Dunford to review the role of the children's commissioner chimes with the new Department for Education's focus on all things schools.

Interview: For the health of Hackney - David Daniels, principal, Petchey Academy

Features

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

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Food at the Petchey Academy in Hackney, east London, is strictly policed. "Students are not allowed to bring food into the academy, they can only bring water or fruit," says David Daniels, the principal. "They all have to eat the midday meal, though they have a choice of meat or veg."

Rebel with a cause

Features

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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Lauren Higgs talks to David Simmonds, chair of the LGA's children and young people board

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Investor in opportunity - Ian Ferguson CBE, chairman, Rathbone

Phyllis Dunipace, director of children's services, London Borough of Lambeth: Lambeth calling

Interview: Andy Burnham, shadow education secretary

Interview: Schools for the future - Dr Hilary Emery, executive director, TDA

Interview: Education select committee chair Robin Walker MP

Interview: All together now - Ed Balls Secretary of State forChildren, Schools and Families

Interview: Space in the city - Nicky Gavron, deputy mayor of London

The play fighter - Nick Jackson, play development manager, The Learning Trust

Interview: The art of engagement - Paul Collard, chief executive, Creativity, Culture & Education

Save the parents - Simon Milligan, parent support adviser, Durham Community Business College

Interview: Nick Wilson, director of children's services, Surrey Council Council

Interview: Baroness Beverley Hughes, Labour peer

How well is the careers advice system meeting children’s needs?

Lead member supreme - Shireen Ritchie, chair of the children and young people board, LGA

Mr Pugnacious - Barry Sheerman MP, chairman, Children, Schools and Families Select Committee

Interview: Happier families: Elspeth Bromiley, family therapist for children and adults, Liverpool City Council.

Coaching for leaders - Steve Munby, chief executive, National College for School Leadership

Meet the president - Kim Bromley-Derry, president, Association of Directors of Children's Services.

Interview: Rob Williams, chief executive, 11 Million - Power to the young people

Interview: A glance at a Tory future - Michael Gove, shadow secretary for children, schools and families

Interview - Keep Britain tidy - Bill Bryson, president, Campaign to Protect Rural England

Interview: Kate Fallon, general secretary, Association of Educational Psychologists

Interview: John Dunford, general secretary, Association of School and College Leaders

Interview: For the health of Hackney - David Daniels, principal, Petchey Academy

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