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Help small charities prove their worth

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 29, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The Teens and Toddlers programme featured this week has managed to build up a solid evidence base of its effectiveness in helping young people, giving it the opportunity to expand across the UK.

Gove gives joint working a rude jolt

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.

Opinion: Who carries the can when things go wrong in childsafeguarding?

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 12, 2014
  • | CYP Now
What did you think last month when you heard that the Prime Minister of South Korea had offered his resignation in the wake of the ferry disaster? I don't suppose anybody thought that the PM had been at the helm of the ship that sunk, or that he could personally be held to blame for any lapses in the training of supervision of the ferry. But the culture in South Korea expects that those in highest authority carry responsibility for anything that goes wrong.

How childcare can survive recession

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 23, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The huge expansion in childcare over the past decade is one of this government's most visible achievements. Latest estimates suggest that 2.8 million families use childcare. We are now a childcare nation.

Sector must influence the coalition

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 17, 2010
  • | CYP Now
They say that a week is a long time in politics. Quite. As predicted in these pages for many months, the new Tory Secretary of State Michael Gove has renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as the Department for Education.

Affordable, flexible childcare plan would be a vote winner

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 7, 2014
  • | CYP Now
There is a problem with childcare being so much in the public spotlight. People either become immune to the argument - a kind of "childcare fatigue" - or talk about it so much that we are lulled into a false sense of security that universal childcare is a reality or soon will be.

The importance of dads in the early years

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
During Mental Health Week, the Movember Foundation published its survey on new dads and there was some striking similarities with findings from a consultation we did with men in Blackpool about their experiences of being a new dad.

Ratios change not the solution to crisis in childcare

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 21, 2022
  • | CYP Now
In July 2021, I wrote about the challenges facing early years education, and issued a plea to the government to supercharge a system that is creaking when it should be thriving. One year on, what is the state of the sector?

It's good logic to halve child poverty

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The fiscal stimulus, be it tax cuts or increases in government spending, has been all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic, as the boldest way to ride the recession.

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