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Trial shows votes at 16 is a verdict to support

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
I undertook jury service at the Old Bailey earlier this year. The case I adjudicated on was not a conventional trial, but deciding if the country is ready to lower the voting age to 16 for all UK elections.

Time to invest in the children's workforce

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Ask children's services leaders - whether a director of children's services, head teacher or nursery manager - what motivates their staff, and most will say it's a passion to improve outcomes for children, not the wage that comes with it.

Early help must prove it cuts care demand

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 30, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Graham Allen's 2011 report Early Intervention: The Next Steps makes clear that the real savings from early help lay in its ability to reduce the numbers coming into care to such an extent that fewer high-cost residential facilities would be needed.

Benefits of funded childcare need selling

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2018
  • | CYP Now
When searching for reasons for the low take-up of funded childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds in England, debate has focused on whether providers are being adequately remunerated to create sufficient places.

Strategy must boost youth opportunities

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 28, 2018
  • | CYP Now
The government's long-awaited Civil Society Strategy recognises the "transformational impact that youth services and trained youth workers" can have on disadvantaged young people.

Incentives are key to halt school exclusions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2018
  • | CYP Now
The education committee's report on exclusions and alternative provisions makes it abundantly clear that the current system is failing some children, and that rising exclusion rates are a reflection of this.

Grenfell must bequeath legacy of collaboration

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 29, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Looking for silver linings to come out of a disaster such as Grenfell Tower would be churlish. However, the way community groups and charities have responded to the tragedy, which claimed 71 lives, 19 of them children, on 14 June last year, is an example of what can be achieved when organisations work in collaboration.

Impact of the SIF will be felt for many years

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Two years ago, Ofsted national director for social care Eleanor Schooling said she expected children's services judgments under the single inspection framework (SIF) to begin improving.

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