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Schools urged to overhaul careers advice

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

| CYP Now

Schools should allow longer and more frequent work experience placements for pupils and provide them with information specific to the local jobs market, a report has found.

Narey confident social work training reforms will get green light

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Friday, May 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Controversial proposals to improve the education and training of child social workers look set to get the go-ahead from government.

Enter the CYP Now Awards and take your chance to shine

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

| CYP Now

The 2014 Children & Young People Now Awards - the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK - are open for entries.

Boost to transport training opportunities for young disadvantaged Londoners

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Monday, March 31, 2014

| CYP Now

The organisation that manages London's transport network plans to train and recruit more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to work for it.

Call for children's centres to focus on attachment

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Monday, March 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's centres should do more to help parents develop positive parenting skills and strong attachments with their child in the first few years of life, the Sutton Trust has said.

Narey takes aim at 'inadequate' social worker training

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's children's adviser Martin Narey has launched a damning critique of the quality of social worker education.

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

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Friday, December 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Report blames sexual grooming of young girls on police failings; MPs call for fairer children's palliative care funding; and a youth offending service in Teeside wins praise, all in the news today.

Young cancer sufferers reveal employment fears

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

| CYP Now

More than half of young people aged 16- to 24-years-old with cancer are concerned about the impact of the disease on their education and future employment, new figures show.

Vulnerable children at risk as voluntary services struggle

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Monday, November 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Nearly three-quarters of voluntary sector practitioners surveyed by Unison say that vulnerable children and young people are being missed by services due to public sector cuts.

Traineeship scheme to be expanded with extra funding

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Friday, October 4, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has found additional money to help fund more work-based training placements for disadvantaged young people.

Councils seek more power to help young unemployed

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Monday, August 19, 2013

| CYP Now

The government should give local authorities more powers to address youth unemployment because its own programmes are failing, the Local Government Association has advised.

Traineeship restrictions will damage young people's job prospects, warn providers

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

| CYP Now

Restrictions on the time a young person can spend training while claiming jobseeker's allowance (JSA) will limit their employment chances, training experts have warned.

Young people abandon ambitions after failing exams

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

| CYP Now

The Prince's Trust is calling on government and employers to do more to support young people leaving school with low or no qualifications to get a job.

Failure to invest in young people 'risks economic recovery'

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Monday, August 12, 2013

| CYP Now

The government's plans for economic recovery will fail if it doesn't also invest in young people, a former government auditor has warned.

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.

CYP Now Awards extends deadline to 11 July

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

| CYP Now

The deadline to enter the 2013 Children & Young People Now Awards has been extended by one week, to Thursday 11 July. Entries must be received before 12 noon that day.

Crime check change could save services millions

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Friday, June 21, 2013

| CYP Now

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has launched a criminal records update service that could save children's services millions of pounds a year.

Student care leavers let down by inconsistent support

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Friday, June 7, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authorities are failing to provide financial and practical support to many care leavers at university and higher education colleges, research has found.

Young people aspire to be self-employed as jobs market remains tough

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Three out of 10 young people believe they will be self-employed in the future, according to a study by The Prince's Trust.

DfE cuts put vocational training in peril, warn providers

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people planning to take vocational courses once they leave school could miss out because of an unexpected cut in government funding, training providers have warned.

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Schools urged to overhaul careers advice

Narey confident social work training reforms will get green light

Enter the CYP Now Awards and take your chance to shine

Boost to transport training opportunities for young disadvantaged Londoners

Call for children's centres to focus on attachment

Narey takes aim at 'inadequate' social worker training

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

Young cancer sufferers reveal employment fears

Vulnerable children at risk as voluntary services struggle

Traineeship scheme to be expanded with extra funding

Councils seek more power to help young unemployed

Traineeship restrictions will damage young people's job prospects, warn providers

Young people abandon ambitions after failing exams

Failure to invest in young people 'risks economic recovery'

Charities unveil employment partnership for disadvantaged young people

CYP Now Awards extends deadline to 11 July

Crime check change could save services millions

Student care leavers let down by inconsistent support

Young people aspire to be self-employed as jobs market remains tough

DfE cuts put vocational training in peril, warn providers

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