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#Chances4Children: Support for young carers returning to school

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

| CYP Now

Two major charities have teamed up to raise awareness of support needed by young carers as they return to school.

MPs removed from anti-poverty charity’s board over free school meals vote

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Thursday, October 29, 2020

| CYP Now

Feeding Britain has removed MPs from its board after one of its trustees voted against extending free school meals to children from low-income families out of term time.

Services for children with SEND ‘seriously affected’ by Covid-19 pandemic

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

| CYP Now

Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have regressed in their development due to lack of available services during the Covid-19 pandemic, Ofsted has said.

Mother 'left in debt' after council ends school transport for autistic son

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Monday, December 7, 2020

| CYP Now

A council that withdrew school transport for an autistic boy, leaving his mother to pay for taxis to get him to his special school, has been criticised by the local government and social care ombudsman.

Queen's Speech: Sector welcomes Children and Social Work Bill

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has set out plans to reform children's social care through a Children and Social Work Bill, with the proposals being broadly well received by the sector.

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Plans to improve teacher standards announced, positive response to "adoption party" pilots, and LGA call for council role in education, all in the news today.

Call to increase grammar school access for poorer children

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Grammar schools in one of the few counties to retain the selective education system are being called on to do more to improve access for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Poverty leads to unequal access to education, report says

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

| CYP Now

The impact that poverty can have on children's ability to learn and succeed at school has been revealed by latest research.

Ofsted warns councils over illegal schools 'con'

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Thursday, October 3, 2019

| CYP Now

Ofsted has warned councils to carry out robust checks to ensure they are not being conned into placing vulnerable children in illegal schools.

Sunak’s New Year speech slammed over 'missing key priorities' for children

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Friday, January 6, 2023

| CYP Now

Social work and early years leaders have criticised the Prime Minister’s New Year speech, saying he failed to address several key priorities for children and young people.

Social care and education workers ‘among hardest hit’ by rising costs, charity warns

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

| CYP Now

Social care and education staff are among groups of workers being hit hardest by the cost-of-living crisis, research by the charity Food Foundation has revealed.

Chair announced for new government award scheme

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

| CYP Now

Dame Denise Platt, chair of the recently abolished Commission for Social Care Inspection, is to chair a new government award scheme to recognise innovation and excellence in local government.

Campaigners welcome child poverty investment

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

| CYP Now

Groups working with children and young people have broadly welcomed the announcements in the Budget.

Local authorities may lose control of special needs assessment

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Friday, March 14, 2008

| CYP Now

A group of experts is to examine whether distancing special educational needs (SEN) assessment from local authorities would increase parents' confidence in the system.

Green paper sets out measures to prevent family breakdown

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

| CYP Now

The government is to launch a comprehensive review of the family justice system that will focus on settling disputes out of court, under plans set out in the families green paper today.

Comprehensive Area Assessment fails to cut council workload

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

| CYP Now

The Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) is failing to reduce the inspections burden on councils, a survey by the Local Government Association (LGA) has found.

Home educators slam government response to Badman

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Monday, October 12, 2009

| CYP Now

The government's response to Graham Badman's review of elective home education "is not worth the paper it's typed on" according to home education charity Education Otherwise.

Balls overrules MPs' objections to Atkinson commissioner appointment

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Monday, October 19, 2009

| CYP Now

Children's Secretary Ed Balls has overridden MPs' objections to the appointment of Maggie Atkinson as children's commissioner for England.

Bath children's services face massive cuts

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Friday, November 20, 2009

| CYP Now

Children's services in Bath are facing cuts in the region of 3.4m over the next three years.

Children's Rights Bill introduced

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Friday, November 20, 2009

| CYP Now

Baroness Joan Walmsley has introduced a Children's Rights Bill, which would make the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child part of UK law.

LGA's Abrahams to become DCSF adviser

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

| CYP Now

Caroline Abrahams is to leave the Local Government Association (LGA) to become Children's Secretary Ed Balls' policy adviser.

Child performance regulations to be brought up to date

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Monday, December 14, 2009

| CYP Now

The Children's Secretary Ed Balls has commissioned the former chair of the Royal Television Society Sarah Thane to review the 40-year-old rules that regulate child performance.

Chief executive of Action for Children made a Dame

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Monday, January 4, 2010

| CYP Now

Clare Tickell, chief executive of Action for Children, and Helen Dent, chief executive of Family Action, are among at least 115 professionals and volunteers from the children and young people's sector recognised in the Queen's New Years honours list.

Children's sector welcomes Primarolo

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Monday, June 8, 2009

| CYP Now

The children's sector has welcomed the appointment of new children's minister Dawn Primarolo, highlighting her experience in health and the fight against child poverty.

Children and young people's bills announced in Queen's Speech

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

| CYP Now

Legislation surrounding child poverty, education and training are among measures announced in the Queen's Speech.

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#Chances4Children: Support for young carers returning to school

MPs removed from anti-poverty charity’s board over free school meals vote

Services for children with SEND ‘seriously affected’ by Covid-19 pandemic

Mother 'left in debt' after council ends school transport for autistic son

Queen's Speech: Sector welcomes Children and Social Work Bill

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

Call to increase grammar school access for poorer children

Poverty leads to unequal access to education, report says

Ofsted warns councils over illegal schools 'con'

Sunak’s New Year speech slammed over 'missing key priorities' for children

Social care and education workers ‘among hardest hit’ by rising costs, charity warns

Chair announced for new government award scheme

Campaigners welcome child poverty investment

Local authorities may lose control of special needs assessment

Green paper sets out measures to prevent family breakdown

Comprehensive Area Assessment fails to cut council workload

Home educators slam government response to Badman

Balls overrules MPs' objections to Atkinson commissioner appointment

Bath children's services face massive cuts

Children's Rights Bill introduced

LGA's Abrahams to become DCSF adviser

Child performance regulations to be brought up to date

Chief executive of Action for Children made a Dame

Children's sector welcomes Primarolo

Children and young people's bills announced in Queen's Speech

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