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Sunak’s New Year speech slammed over 'missing key priorities' for children

Friday, January 6, 2023

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Social work and early years leaders have criticised the Prime Minister’s New Year speech, saying he failed to address several key priorities for children and young people.

Parental Involvement and its Effects on Children’s Education

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

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Evidence shows parental engagement in children’s learning at home is critical to a child’s education and development. But most research to date has focused on mothers or parents in general, so less is known about how fathers affect their children’s education. This study by the University of Leeds, University of Manchester and the Fatherhood Institute set out to explore the relationship between fathers’ involvement in childcare and children’s educational outcomes as they progressed through primary school.

Enter the Children & Young People Now Awards 2011

Friday, April 1, 2011

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The Children & Young People Now Awards have become the gold standard for everyone working with children, young people and families.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Wales

Monday, May 13, 2013

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Edited By Jane Williams; University of Wales Press; ISBN: 978-0708325629; £34.99; 240 pages

Research Report: From Education to Employment - Indicators to identify the disengaged

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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Research into the reasons young people become disengaged from education and employment

How we can lead the way in promoting positivity

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

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In 2012, I launched my first campaign to smash the stereotypes and improve attitudes towards children and young people.

Learning providers call for payment-by-results in schools

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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Schools should be subject to a payment-by-results system of funding dependent on their pupils' maths and English GCSE results, apprenticeship providers have claimed.

Daily roundup: Rochdale's social care chief steps down, primary admissions appeals and statistics on heroin addiction

Friday, October 5, 2012

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Rochdale's head of children's social care to leave the troubled council, primary school admissions appeals on the rise and fewer young people seeking heroin treatment, all in the news today.

Government urged to reconsider Early Intervention Grant changes

Monday, October 15, 2012

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Professionals warn that changes to the Early Intervention Grant spell uncertainty for services ranging from children's centres and short breaks for disabled children to youth work and counselling for teenagers

Daily roundup: Foster children's rights, SEN reforms, and the cost of sending a child to school

Thursday, October 25, 2012

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Research says children in foster care are being "denied a proper childhood", concerns over the government's special educational needs (SEN) reforms, and the rising cost of sending children to school, all in the news today.

Committee urges stronger powers for children's commissioner

Monday, December 10, 2012

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England's children's commissioner should be given stronger powers, while the title of the role should be changed to include "young people", an influential group of MPs and peers has said.

Call to extend free school meals to all children in poverty

Friday, December 14, 2012

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Nearly three quarters of teachers say children they teach have arrived at school without lunch or any money to buy food, a study by The Children's Society has found.

Benefits cap ‘will undo work to tackle child poverty'

Monday, January 7, 2013

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Government plans to cap benefit payments until 2015 will reverse efforts to reduce child poverty and plunder the income of low- to middle-earning families, charities have warned.

ADCS president Alan Wood backs councils to drive social care improvement

Thursday, April 10, 2014

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The new president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said local authorities need to be at the centre of driving improvement in children's services.

Children's leaders left 'puzzled' by calls to remove DCS duty on councils

Monday, May 26, 2014

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Local authority chief executives' group says the requirement for a director of children's services is stifling innovation in children's services and isolating it from the rest of local government - arguments that don't stack up, say leaders.

Daily roundup: Missing babies, nurture groups, and play

Monday, June 9, 2014

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Nearly 20 babies reported missing from council care; research backs value of nurture groups; and £1.9m boost for play in Scotland, all in the news today.

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - School exclusion

Monday, June 9, 2014

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Q: What are the obligations of parents, schools and local authorities to provide for a pupil during a school exclusion?

Decline in school police presence raises concerns over pupil safety

Monday, September 1, 2014

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CYP Now investigation reveals more than a third of police forces have cut the number of dedicated officers attached to schools so that half of force areas no longer have a single officer based on a school campus.

Schools to compete for £10,000 pupil premium award

Monday, May 14, 2012

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Schools will be asked to compete to find the best ways of spending the pupil premium, with those using the money most effectively winning £10,000, Deputy Prime minister Nick Clegg has said.

Daily roundup: Female genital mutilation, call to decriminalise drugs, and the LGA on healthy school food

Monday, January 14, 2013

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Ofsted to question schools on preventing female genital mutilation, a cross-party group of peers say drugs should be decriminalised, and the Local Government Association calls for a single food standard for all schools, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Free schools, Somerset youth cuts, and child protection in the Isle of Wight

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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The Department for Education is ordered to publish a list of groups bidding to run free schools, a 21-year-old from Somerset is granted permission to appeal against cuts to youth services, and Ofsted rates child protection in the Isle of Wight 'inadequate', all in the news today.

DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department's former ministers.

Do we need more men?

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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Women outnumber men across the children's workforce, particularly in work with young children. Charlotte Goddard investigates whether it matters and what employers could do to redress the balance

Children and Families Bill SEN reforms branded a ‘lost opportunity'

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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The government's special educational needs (SEN) reforms will create a two-tier system of support for children with disabilities, campaigners have warned.

In Focus: Fair4Families campaign

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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4Children examines the tough circumstances faced by families in 2013

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