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Daily roundup: School uniforms, A-Levels, and court cases

Thursday, August 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Charity calls for school uniforms to be ditched, the proportion of top A-Level grades is down on last year, and a minister wants more young offenders dealt with in youth courts, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Strike action, Universal Credit and tobacco warnings

Other

Thursday, September 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Teachers threaten walk out over pay and conditions; government's welfare reform programme criticised; and graphic tobacco warnings fail to dissuade teenage smokers, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Outstanding schools, Teather quits, and foster carers

Other

Monday, September 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Three out of four schools now judged as good or outstanding; former children's minister to step down as MP; and foster care myths exposed, all in the news today.

Strategy calls for focus on children, not families, in bid to end poverty

Other

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

| CYP Now

The Welsh Government must overhaul its approach to child poverty in order to meet the target of eradicating the problem by 2020

Daily roundup: Homeless families, job satisfaction, and call for Royal Commission on child abuse

Other

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

| CYP Now

More families in B&B accommodation, youth work and childcare staff rate their job satisfaction, and a call for wide-ranging commission on child abuse, all in the news today.

InFocus: New Year's resolutions

Other

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Parents struggling to afford basics for children, study finds

News

Monday, August 21, 2017

| CYP Now

Inflation and the current benefits freeze are widening the gap between what families with children have and what they need to cover the basic costs of living, a Child Poverty Action Group study has claimed.

Daily roundup: Votes at 16, governors to monitor teacher performance and young people's 'dangerous' diet habits

Other

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

| CYP Now

Calls to lower the voting age, proposals to use governors to monitor teacher performance and concerns over the diets of young people in deprived areas, all make the news today.

Daily roundup: Pupils 'go hungry', whooping cough and missing children

Other

Friday, September 28, 2012

| CYP Now

Teachers warn that pupils are suffering the impact of recession, pregnant women to be given the whooping cough jab, and an online campaign to find missing children, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Vocational training, health and parenting

Other

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

| CYP Now

New practical qualifications for school children introduced next year; huge rise in Crohn's disease hospital admissions of young people; and parents warned not to give children alcohol at end of exams, all in the news today.

Children's commissioner to investigate impact of family immigration rules

News

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

| CYP Now

The Office of the Children's Commissioner for England has launched an investigation into the harm family immigration rule changes are causing to children.

Lib Dem Conference 2011: Government to pilot classes for parents of under-fives

News

Sunday, September 18, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's minister Sarah Teather has announced that up to four local areas will be involved in a scheme that will offer parenting classes to every parent of a child aged under five.

Benefit cuts to be challenged in High Court

News

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

| CYP Now

A High Court judge is set to rule on the legality of controversial housing benefit cuts after a child poverty charity launched a legal challenge.

Young people unite to air their views on riots

News

Friday, August 12, 2011

| CYP Now

Young people turned out in their scores in central London as part of an event aimed at giving them the opportunity to air their views on the recent unrest and its causes.

Pensioners 'could help young people by paying National Insurance'

News

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

| CYP Now

Pensioners should continue to pay National Insurance in order to fund employment schemes for young people, a campaign organisation has proposed.

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

News

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Government changes to tax and benefits have hit families with young children and poorer households the hardest, a major study has found.

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

News

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has been handed new responsibilities for boosting the ‘character and resilience' of young people and tackling bullying, the Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed.

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

Other

Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders gathered at CYP Now's Early Help Conference to discuss latest policy developments in early help and hear how local areas are developing interventions across a range of settings and age groups.

MPs urged to oppose child support proposals

News

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| CYP Now

MPs have been urged to oppose controversial changes to child support by a group of organisations including Gingerbread and the Children's Society.

MP calls for emergency housing programme to help families in crisis

News

Friday, May 6, 2011

| CYP Now

A housing crisis in the London Borough of Hillingdon has left families living in "developing world conditions", according to the area's MP.

Boost early years support to improve social mobility, commission says

News

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

| CYP Now

The early years pupil premium should be doubled as part of efforts to combat worsening life chances for children and young people across the UK, the Social Mobility Commission has said.

Low-income families blighted by cost of children's birthday parties

News

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

| CYP Now

The cost of children's birthday parties is plunging disadvantaged families into financial difficulty, a report has found.

Brexit effect on vulnerable children and families begins to unravel

Analysis

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

| CYP Now

Meeting of charity leaders to discuss the impact of Brexit on vulnerable children and families warns that the UK leaving the European Union could put children's rights, safeguarding and economic welfare at risk.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

News

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Unfair welfare cuts will heighten child poverty

Other

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| CYP Now

There has been plenty of pre-Budget rhetoric thrown around about welfare and benefits spending from all sides. When the Budget is announced on 20 March, we will know which way the Chancellor jumped.

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Daily roundup: School uniforms, A-Levels, and court cases

Daily roundup: Strike action, Universal Credit and tobacco warnings

Daily roundup: Outstanding schools, Teather quits, and foster carers

Strategy calls for focus on children, not families, in bid to end poverty

Daily roundup: Homeless families, job satisfaction, and call for Royal Commission on child abuse

InFocus: New Year's resolutions

Parents struggling to afford basics for children, study finds

Daily roundup: Votes at 16, governors to monitor teacher performance and young people's 'dangerous' diet habits

Daily roundup: Pupils 'go hungry', whooping cough and missing children

Daily roundup: Vocational training, health and parenting

Children's commissioner to investigate impact of family immigration rules

Lib Dem Conference 2011: Government to pilot classes for parents of under-fives

Benefit cuts to be challenged in High Court

Young people unite to air their views on riots

Pensioners 'could help young people by paying National Insurance'

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges

MPs urged to oppose child support proposals

MP calls for emergency housing programme to help families in crisis

Boost early years support to improve social mobility, commission says

Low-income families blighted by cost of children's birthday parties

Brexit effect on vulnerable children and families begins to unravel

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

Unfair welfare cuts will heighten child poverty

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