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Children and Families Act: Parental support 'a missed opportunity'

Friday, March 14, 2014

| CYP Now

Measures in the Children and Families Act to extend support for new parents should have been available to other types of carers, the Family Rights Group (FRG) has said.

Conservative Conference 2011: Cameron reaffirms commitment to families

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

| CYP Now

Prime Minister David Cameron has reaffirmed his pledge to make the coalition the most "family-friendly" government in history during his keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference.

Children's centres must innovate or face 'marginalisation', charity warns

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Thursday, November 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Government and local authorities must do more to find "innovative" ways to deliver a full range of children's centres services, a charity has warned.

Majority of five-year-olds struggle at school

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Friday, February 11, 2011

| CYP Now

Fewer than half of five-year-olds in England are considered to have a good level of understanding and behaviour in their first year of school, a review of inequality has found.

£8m fund to tackle London's childcare shortage

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Friday, December 13, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has given a funding boost to early years services in London after figures show only half of the capital's councils have enough nursery places available to provide free childcare for all disadvantaged two-year-olds.

Pupil premium extension to pre-schools wins backing from Clegg

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has pledged his support for extending the use of pupil premium funding into the early years sector.

Call for children's centres to focus on attachment

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Monday, March 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's centres should do more to help parents develop positive parenting skills and strong attachments with their child in the first few years of life, the Sutton Trust has said.

Government announces charity providers for parenting classes

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

| CYP Now

The government's free parenting class pilots will kick off in three areas next month.

Financial pressures on parents have made the UK less family-friendly

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

| CYP Now

The UK is less "family-friendly" than last year due to rising childcare costs, housing problems and the economic climate, a report by charity the Family and Parenting Institute (FPI) has found.

Loughton to mentor workless family

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Monday, August 22, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's minister Tim Loughton has volunteered to "adopt" a family as part of a scheme to help people back into work.

Families to benefit from £300m childcare boost

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

| CYP Now

Parents will be able to claim back more of their childcare costs when they move into work under the new Universal Credit benefits system, the government has said.

Universal credit will deter single parents from full-time work

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Friday, May 20, 2011

| CYP Now

Single parents wanting to work full-time will be worse off when the universal credit is implemented, according to the latest analysis of government welfare reforms.

Social Mobility Commission calls for pupil premium extension to early years

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

| CYP Now

The pupil premium should be extended into nurseries, according to the government-appointed Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.

Sector welcomes opposition's free childcare proposals

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

| CYP Now

The early years sector has welcomed Labour's pledge to increase free childcare if the party is elected, but warned the policy will only work if it is properly costed and providers consulted.

HMRC urged to reverse nursery closures

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Monday, September 3, 2012

| CYP Now

The trade union that represents staff at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is calling on the authority to reverse its decision to close its eight staff nurseries across the UK.

Energy bills force families to cut back on food and fuel

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Monday, February 20, 2012

| CYP Now

More than 90 per cent of Barnardo's services have supported families with debts owed to their gas or electricity supplier.

Tax credit changes leave families more than £500 a year worse off

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Families with children will lose an average of £511 a year, while more than one million will no longer receive tax credits due to government changes coming into force this week, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Parents turn down work to cope with cost of childcare

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Parents are turning down job opportunities and borrowing money to cover the costs of childcare, a survey by the Daycare Trust and Mumsnet has found.

Leading children's charities warn of spike in poverty due to austerity measures

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| CYP Now

Three leading charities have warned that the number of children living in poverty will rise to more than one million by 2015 as a result of austerity measures and the impact of the recession.

MPs call for national parenting support programme

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

| CYP Now

There should be national co-ordination of parenting support with local authorities playing a more active role in evaluating provision in their area, a parliamentary inquiry has concluded.

Unexplained infant deaths rise for first time in five years

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

| CYP Now

The rate of unexplained infant deaths has risen for the first time in five years prompting a call for government to develop a national strategy to tackle the issue.

Child maintenance assessments are full of errors

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| CYP Now

The auditor general has been unable to sign off the accounts for the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission because they contain too many errors.

Charities warn government not to break link between inflation and benefit payments

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Friday, November 18, 2011

| CYP Now

The government has been accused of failing on its own family-friendly test after reports that Chancellor George Osborne is expected to cap the annual benefit increase next April at 4.5 per cent.

Pregnant women and new mothers miss out on early intervention support

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Monday, May 14, 2012

| CYP Now

A lack of early intervention services for disadvantaged pregnant women and new mothers risks creating another generation of "troubled families", the charity Family Action has warned.

Cameron says parenting classes will instil ‘right values' in next generation

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Friday, May 18, 2012

| CYP Now

The Prime Minister has pledged free parenting classes and relationship support for couples to help "raise the next generation with the right values".

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Children and Families Act: Parental support 'a missed opportunity'

Conservative Conference 2011: Cameron reaffirms commitment to families

Children's centres must innovate or face 'marginalisation', charity warns

Majority of five-year-olds struggle at school

£8m fund to tackle London's childcare shortage

Pupil premium extension to pre-schools wins backing from Clegg

Call for children's centres to focus on attachment

Government announces charity providers for parenting classes

Financial pressures on parents have made the UK less family-friendly

Loughton to mentor workless family

Families to benefit from £300m childcare boost

Universal credit will deter single parents from full-time work

Social Mobility Commission calls for pupil premium extension to early years

Sector welcomes opposition's free childcare proposals

HMRC urged to reverse nursery closures

Energy bills force families to cut back on food and fuel

Tax credit changes leave families more than £500 a year worse off

Parents turn down work to cope with cost of childcare

Leading children's charities warn of spike in poverty due to austerity measures

MPs call for national parenting support programme

Unexplained infant deaths rise for first time in five years

Child maintenance assessments are full of errors

Charities warn government not to break link between inflation and benefit payments

Pregnant women and new mothers miss out on early intervention support

Cameron says parenting classes will instil ‘right values' in next generation

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