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Child and youth projects among beneficiaries of £21m funding ?

Monday, December 12, 2016

| CYP Now

Projects designed to benefit children, young people and families are among 648 community projects across England to receive a slice of £21m Big Lottery Fund cash.

Richmond and Kingston consider children's services merger

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| CYP Now

The London boroughs of Richmond and Kingston are the latest councils to consider merging their children's services departments.

Doncaster takeover ‘could damage children's services'

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Monday, August 5, 2013

| CYP Now

The government's plans to take Doncaster's children's social care out of council control could harm service improvement, experts have suggested.

Educational psychology services feel strain of budget cuts

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils across England have cut funding for educational psychology services by five per cent over the last three years, figures show.

Childminders should be wary of pilot agencies, warns early years expert

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Friday, October 4, 2013

| CYP Now

An early years expert has warned childminders to be wary of signing up to agencies being piloted by the Department for Education.

Tougher requirements for independent social work providers rejected

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Monday, October 28, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has dismissed calls to strengthen requirements for GP-style social work practices to employ registered social workers.

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

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Monday, December 2, 2013

| CYP Now

MP pledges to raise case of Italian woman whose child was taken at birth; more children being treated for eating disorders; and Labour seeks to strengthen law around underage smoking, all in the news today.

Study raises prospect of youth mental health service

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

| CYP Now

A government study to assess the benefits of existing youth health services could be the first step in the development of a national mental health service for adolescents and young adults, campaigners have said.

LGA warns over impact of council funding cuts

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Monday, May 12, 2014

| CYP Now

Services for children and young people look set to bear the brunt of local authority funding cuts over the next two years, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Regional network to help boost adoption numbers

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Monday, May 19, 2014

| CYP Now

A network of regional adoption leadership boards is being created to assist national efforts to improve recruitment in the sector.

Opposition to outsourcing of child protection gathers pace

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Monday, May 19, 2014

| CYP Now

More than 8,000 people have signed a petition condemning government plans to outsource child protection services.

Narey defends private sector role in child protection

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's adviser on children's social care has defended proposals to allow child protection services to be outsourced, which he said does not amount to large-scale privatisation.

School absence rates show significant fall

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

| CYP Now

The government is claiming victory for its tough love approach to tackling truancy, after latest figures show a drop in the overall and persistent absentee rates of pupils.

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

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Friday, June 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

Exclusive: Half of councils fail to secure sufficient free childcare places

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

| CYP Now

More than half of local authorities will be unable to provide all disadvantaged two-year-olds with access to free childcare when the government's flagship scheme expands next month, CYP Now can reveal.

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on children's social care has increased by more than five per cent in a single year, government figures show.

MPs hear DfE blocked council intervention in Birmingham school

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

| CYP Now

An early attempt by Birmingham City Council to intervene in a troubled school was rejected by the Department for Education, MPs have heard.

Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation

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Friday, September 12, 2014

| CYP Now

A group of local authorities will face Ofsted inspections on the way they deal with child sexual exploitation (CSE) in a bid to ensure services are up to scratch in the wake of the Rotherham scandal, CYP Now can reveal.

UK Youth announces new chief executive

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

| CYP Now

UK Youth has announced that Anna Smee is to become its new chief executive.

Derbyshire considers revised children's centre plans

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Derbyshire County Council has backed down on plans to close seven children's centres.

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Child and youth projects among beneficiaries of £21m funding ?

Richmond and Kingston consider children's services merger

Doncaster takeover ‘could damage children's services'

Educational psychology services feel strain of budget cuts

Childminders should be wary of pilot agencies, warns early years expert

Tougher requirements for independent social work providers rejected

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

Study raises prospect of youth mental health service

LGA warns over impact of council funding cuts

Regional network to help boost adoption numbers

Opposition to outsourcing of child protection gathers pace

Narey defends private sector role in child protection

School absence rates show significant fall

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Exclusive: Half of councils fail to secure sufficient free childcare places

Children's social care spending rises five per cent

MPs hear DfE blocked council intervention in Birmingham school

Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation

UK Youth announces new chief executive

Derbyshire considers revised children's centre plans

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