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Complete communicator

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Neil Puffett meets Anna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau.

Our children's services need an institute for excellence

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
  • | CYP Now
I've attended dozens of meetings and presentations about how children's services could and should be improved. Almost none of this has had any lasting impact. I've come to the view that we need something like the National Institute for National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) in the NHS, a National Institute for Children's Services Excellence that would promote best practice, with professional authority and based on the evidence. This conclusion is driven by the recognition that nothing else has worked.

Daily roundup: Child abuse, early years services and academy conversions

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  • Tuesday, September 23, 2014
  • | CYP Now
MP Keith Vaz criticises parliamentary evidence of former director of children's services at Rotherham Council; government adviser on health inequality calls for greater investment in the early years; and education think-tank calls for mass academy conversion, all in the news today.

Children Today

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  • Monday, September 15, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The UK-wide Children Today charity was set up in 1994 to provide disabled children and young people with specialist equipment to help improve their quality of life. There is no statutory right for young people with disabilities to be provided with equipment they need by the government or NHS, a "gap" that the charity attempts to fill. It relies entirely on voluntary donations.