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Magistrates issue 'exemption clause' warning

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  • Tuesday, January 10, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Magistrates have added their voice to fears that measures in the Children and Social Work Bill to allow councils to opt out of children's legislation will undermine the rights of vulnerable young people.

Napo slams Cafcass red tape and managerialism

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  • Monday, June 28, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Advisory body the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has become bogged down by red tape and is "lurching from crisis to crisis", according to damning evidence presented to the National Audit Office.

Equality duty scrapped

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  • Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The duty for all public bodies to focus spending and target services on poorer areas, due to be implemented under the 2010 Equalities Act, has been scrapped, Home Secretary and equalities minister Theresa May has announced.

Bill fails to deliver on foster care hopes

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  • Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • | CYP Now
Fostering organisations are furious that the Children and Young Persons Bill failed to make sure looked-after children can stay with foster carers up until the age of 21.