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Progress stalls on closing GCSE disadvantage gap, study finds

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

| CYP Now

Progress in narrowing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is stalling, with no progress at all recorded among the poorest children in recent years, analysis of government data has found.

Fury erupts over DfE review of PSHE

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

| CYP Now

The government today rejected calls for national guidelines on PSHE lessons, sparking a furious reaction from campaigners.

£200m education funding cut threatens accountability, council leaders warn

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Friday, July 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Government plans to cut school budgets by £200m will damage councils' ability to hold schools to account and help those that are struggling to improve, council leaders have warned.

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Figures show fall in English GCSE grades; number of fines issued to parents in Suffolk for allowing their children to miss school rises by 500 per cent; and Department for Education reveals drop in young people not in education, employment or training, all in the news today.

Conservative Party Conference: Call for youth sector to promote informal education

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

| CYP Now

Youth organisations must do more to promote the value of informal education, the chief executive of Girlguiding has said.

Organisations offered 2,200 to support teenagers into work

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

| CYP Now

The government is inviting organisations to bid for contracts worth up to 2,200 to help 55,000 16- and 17-year-olds who are out of work, education or training.

Post-16 study failings cost £800m, says LGA

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Monday, February 2, 2015

| CYP Now

More than £800m of education money is being "wasted" by schools and colleges because of poor advice being given to students about post-16 study options, local government leaders have said.

Barnardo's calls for 20,000 care leaver apprenticeships

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's charity Barnardo's has called on the government to reserve 20,000 apprenticeships for young people leaving care.

Queen’s Speech 2021: Skills and Post-16 Education Bill ‘central to pandemic recovery’

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

| CYP Now

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has laid out plans to create new laws to improve post-16 education in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Election 2019: Education leaders praise Labour's vow to reverse school cuts

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

| CYP Now

Education leaders have welcomed the Labour Party’s pledge to reverse cuts to the education system and offer free training to school leavers.

Job and education worries are biggest concerns for young people

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Friday, March 4, 2016

| CYP Now

Young people fear being "cut adrift" from society due to difficulty accessing housing, jobs and education, research by YMCA England has found.

Disadvantaged schools have fewer qualified teachers

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

| CYP Now

Schools with high-levels of less well-off pupils have fewer experienced teachers and the teaching is less effective, a study has found.

Guidelines to stamp out 'perverse incentives' on vocational qualifications

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

| CYP Now

Vocational qualifications will only count in school league tables if they are equivalent or more advanced than GCSEs and offer pupils progress into a broad range of options, under guidance announced by the Department for Education today (27 October).

Schools fail pupils leaving education, claims think tank

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Friday, March 11, 2011

| CYP Now

Secondary schools are failing the half of all pupils who do not go on to higher education, according to a report by the think tank Demos.

Charities unveil employment partnership for disadvantaged young people

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Up to 25,000 disadvantaged young people will be helped into education, training or work over the next three years through employment skills programmes set up by four UK charities.

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Progress stalls on closing GCSE disadvantage gap, study finds

Fury erupts over DfE review of PSHE

£200m education funding cut threatens accountability, council leaders warn

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

Conservative Party Conference: Call for youth sector to promote informal education

Organisations offered 2,200 to support teenagers into work

Post-16 study failings cost £800m, says LGA

Barnardo's calls for 20,000 care leaver apprenticeships

Queen’s Speech 2021: Skills and Post-16 Education Bill ‘central to pandemic recovery’

Election 2019: Education leaders praise Labour's vow to reverse school cuts

Job and education worries are biggest concerns for young people

Disadvantaged schools have fewer qualified teachers

Guidelines to stamp out 'perverse incentives' on vocational qualifications

Schools fail pupils leaving education, claims think tank

Charities unveil employment partnership for disadvantaged young people

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