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Courses adapt to frontline demands

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  • Monday, July 9, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Youth work provision is becoming increasingly diversified, as needs and budgets vary across the country. Charlotte Goddard investigates whether courses and qualifications are keeping up with the changes

Would a licence to practise raise the bar?

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  • Tuesday, April 3, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Professor Cathy Nutbrown's interim report of early education and childcare qualifications states that despite unwavering evidence that good quality provision is vital for young children's development, the work of the early years sector is "widely seen as low status, low paid and low skilled".

Youth work courses continue to evolve

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  • Tuesday, June 25, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Student numbers on youth work courses are in decline, while some universities are axing their degrees altogether, but Charlotte Goddard finds institutions adapting learning to meet changing needs in the sector.

Skills for the new curriculum

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  • Monday, June 11, 2012
    • | CYP Now
The revised Early Years Foundation Stage framework comes into force in September. Sue Learner examines the skills that practitioners require to deliver the new curriculum and what training is available

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Education

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  • Friday, September 1, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Education support staff, such as teaching assistants, mental health workers and special educational needs co-ordinators (Sencos) have faced a number of challenges in 2023, including increased demand for support.

Access to Youth Work: Training developments

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  • Tuesday, October 24, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Youth workers work in a variety of settings including traditional youth clubs, in the community (detached youth work) and increasingly in places such as schools, hospitals and secure environments.

A skills shake-up to keep children safe

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  • Monday, June 25, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Training and professional development for social workers is undergoing major upheaval. Jo Stephenson examines what the changes mean, as pressures continue to intensify to protect children from harm

Montessori training deemed invalid

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  • Monday, March 7, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The core principles of Montessori and Steiner schools, praised by Michael Gove during his time as shadow education secretary, are under threat from a diploma set to be introduced next January.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Social Work

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  • Friday, September 1, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Department for Education data shows there were 7,900 social work vacancies in England in 2022, up by more than a fifth compared with the previous year and the highest rate since 2017. In 2022, children's services lost 5,400 full-time equivalent social workers.

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