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Learnings on school readiness

Other

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Pilot scheme improved young children's transition to formal education through collaboration and involving families.

More cash to support SEN plans

Other

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Extra funding alone will not improve the transfer of SEN children to integrated care plans, warn campaigners.

North-south divide apparent by age five, report finds

News

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Poor children in the north of England are faring worse by the age of five than their counterparts in London, a study has found.

Extremism strategy to put madrassas under closer scrutiny

News

Monday, October 19, 2015

The Department for Education (DfE) will develop a new system to intervene in unofficial Islamic schools where there are concerns about the way children are being taught, it has been announced.

Child benefit to be docked if parents fail to pay truancy fines

News

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Parents will have their child benefit payments docked if they fail to pay truancy fines Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

Other

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Qualification requirements and training provision for working with children and young people is continuously adapting in line with changes in policy and practice. Charlotte Goddard provides a comprehensive overview.

Legal Update: Caring for refugee children

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Monday, September 28, 2015

Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the UK government's response to the refugee crisis and foster care provision for refugee children.

Timescales hinder SEN reforms

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

Councils struggle to provide education, health and care plans within the required deadlines, say campaigners

Review set to reveal Gove plans

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

Youth justice experts say education of young offenders must not dominate the review of the system

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).

Corbyn names Lucy Powell shadow education secretary

News

Monday, September 14, 2015

New Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn has appointed Lucy Powell shadow education secretary.

Home Office unveils statutory FGM guidance

News

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Statutory guidance for how children's social workers, doctors, police and teachers should deal with suspected cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been published by government as part of attempts to protect potential victims.