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Think tank blasts performance of coalition's family support policy

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

| CYP Now

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), the think tank set up by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, has criticised the coalition government's track record on supporting families.

Parents struggle to cope with their children's bad behaviour

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

| CYP Now

Parents are increasingly concerned about children's aggressive behaviour, often leading to feelings of desperation and shame, charity Family Lives has warned.

Childcare among biggest pressures on family budgets, research finds

News

Friday, April 26, 2013

| CYP Now

A year-long study of 11 families has identified childcare, cars, credit and inflation as the main sources of financial pressure on households with children.

DfE bids to boost early literacy skills

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Monday, April 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Disadvantaged children are to get targeted help with reading and language as part of a Department for Education-backed project.

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

| CYP Now

A greater emphasis must be placed on relationships for children in care rather than the type of placement option, an inquiry by eight charities has found.

Rob Parkinson to lead Home-Start UK from September

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Action Homeless chief executive Rob Parkinson is to take over as chief executive of family support charity Home-Start UK on 2 September.

NCAS Conference: Employers urged to provide childcare

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Friday, October 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Businesses and schools should be used to ensure sufficient childcare places for two-year-olds are available, experts have said.

Foster carer demand shows slight fall

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of foster carers needed to be recruited this year is slightly lower than in 2013 due to a slowdown in the number of children expected to be fostered, research suggests.

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

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Friday, January 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Parenting support programmes significantly cut the risk of children developing behavioural problems and becoming offenders in adolescence and adulthood, a new study suggests.

Birmingham criticised for 'losing' disabled girl in the system

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Birmingham City Council has been reprimanded for failing to assess a disabled girl's needs for more than four years.

Expose councils that fail troubled families, urges Casey

News

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

| CYP Now

The government's troubled families tsar has called on local authority staff to blow the whistle on councils that deliberately avoid working with the most difficult families under the scheme.

Inspectors praise children's centre support at 'inadequate' council

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

| CYP Now

Effective use of children's centres to offer early support to vulnerable families is helping an "inadequate" council turn around its performance, Ofsted has found.

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils could save more than £32,000 for each troubled family they work with by providing services in a more effective way, a government report has claimed.

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

News

Friday, March 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

News

Thursday, April 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils will be handed powers to outsource a whole range of children's social care services including child protection under proposals announced by the government.

Working families 'don't earn enough to live on'

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

| CYP Now

Low wages, benefits cuts and the rising cost of raising children are leaving full-time working families struggling to afford a basic standard of living, a report by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has found.

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Figures show fall in English GCSE grades; number of fines issued to parents in Suffolk for allowing their children to miss school rises by 500 per cent; and Department for Education reveals drop in young people not in education, employment or training, all in the news today.

Government to pursue controversial 'residence test' for children's legal aid

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Friday, September 5, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has resisted calls from MPs to backtrack on a controversial policy that will prevent asylum-seeking children from having access to legal aid.

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's services in Blackpool are improving but problems remain with support for care leavers and planning for looked-after children, inspectors have found.

MPs urge priority on early years to boost university prospects

News

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

| CYP Now

The drive to establish a fair admissions system to the top universities should start before school age, a group of MPs has reported.

DfE innovation project 'saves councils up to £2m a year'

News

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

| CYP Now

An early intervention project that received funding through the Department for Education's social care innovation programme saves councils up to £2.1m a year, an evaluation report has found.

Lib Dem Conference 2011: Relate brands Working Families Everywhere programme a 'blunt instrument'

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

| CYP Now

The programme targeting the 120,000 most troubled families in England has been dubbed a "blunt instrument" by the chief executive of family and relationship charity Relate.

Conservative Conference 2011: Duncan Smith vows to lift 'couples penalty'

News

Monday, October 3, 2011

| CYP Now

The Work and Pensions Secretary has pledged to remove financial penalties against couples in the welfare system, as part of plans to restore society in the wake of the riots.

Legal aid reforms will leave children exposed to domestic violence, campaigners warn

News

Monday, March 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Women and children will be placed in danger if planned changes to legal aid are rubberstamped, campaigners have warned.

Sixty per cent of families report serious conflict in the home

News

Monday, March 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Six out of 10 UK families with children experience serious or frequent conflict, according to a survey by 4Children.

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Think tank blasts performance of coalition's family support policy

Parents struggle to cope with their children's bad behaviour

Childcare among biggest pressures on family budgets, research finds

DfE bids to boost early literacy skills

Care Inquiry calls for relationship-focused system

Rob Parkinson to lead Home-Start UK from September

NCAS Conference: Employers urged to provide childcare

Foster carer demand shows slight fall

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

Birmingham criticised for 'losing' disabled girl in the system

Expose councils that fail troubled families, urges Casey

Inspectors praise children's centre support at 'inadequate' council

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

Government unveils plans to outsource child protection

Working families 'don't earn enough to live on'

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

Government to pursue controversial 'residence test' for children's legal aid

Blackpool children's services 'require improvement'

MPs urge priority on early years to boost university prospects

DfE innovation project 'saves councils up to £2m a year'

Lib Dem Conference 2011: Relate brands Working Families Everywhere programme a 'blunt instrument'

Conservative Conference 2011: Duncan Smith vows to lift 'couples penalty'

Legal aid reforms will leave children exposed to domestic violence, campaigners warn

Sixty per cent of families report serious conflict in the home

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