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Solutions lie in truly listening to children’s views

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Gathering and considering the wishes and feelings of a child or young person, their parents and wider family before any serious decision is taken about them is commonplace in children’s services teams and a feature of much outstanding direct work with children.

Children's charities need clarity on support package

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Like families, households and businesses across the country, charities are feeling more than just the pinch when confronted with the significantly increasing costs of keeping vital services running, every day.

Families need urgent action on cost of living

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The UK will enter what is tipped to be, in economic terms, the toughest winter in the post-war era amid warnings from organisations like Barnardo’s and Action for Children that vulnerable families will be hit hardest.

New Prime Minister’s key priorities for children

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Children’s happiness was already at a deeply worrying 10-year low when lockdown hit, according to our Good Childhood research, isolating them from friends, family and vital support. Now, families face another major shock as soaring inflation looks set to plunge more households and children into poverty. Yes, we are facing a cost-of-living crisis – but we are also facing a crisis in our children’s wellbeing.

Queen’s Speech failed most vulnerable families

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Children and young people in the UK are growing up in some of the hardest times in recent history, where inflation rates are at a 40-year high and the cost of living crisis is hitting every household. Low-income families, who were already struggling, are faring the worst.

DfE revamp offers children’s services opportunities

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Ordinarily there’s nothing interesting about a government department restructure. But look more closely at what’s happening in the Department for Education and you might wonder whether there’s a sea change afoot in relationships with local services for children.

University access key to success of levelling up

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
It is a decade since university tuition fees were raised from £3,000 to £9,000 per year. It was feared the rise would deter disadvantaged young people from going to university, yet latest figures from Ucas shows record numbers of 18-year-olds from poorer areas applied this year.

Levelling up is about more than better grades

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The government’s levelling-up agenda has the potential to be a master key to unlock opportunity for children and young people and we have been eagerly anticipating the newly published white paper.

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