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Councils need the means to deliver foster care support

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  • Tuesday, December 17, 2013
  • | CYP Now
A little over two months ago, the Fostering Network called on the government to do the right thing - both morally and economically - by extending financial support to foster carers and in doing so enable children they care for to stay in the placement past their 18th birthday and up to 21 if they so wish.

'Schoolification' is not the answer to narrow the gap

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  • Monday, April 14, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Patience is a virtue in short supply in public services, particularly among politicians and policymakers. There can be few areas where this is more evident than in education, where initiatives and overhauls of curriculums, exams and structures seem to come ever thicker and faster. A couple of weeks ago, early years providers discovered how impatient the government and its agencies are to raise standards, with the sector's record for improving the outcomes for disadvantaged children coming under scrutiny.

The fight for the right to stay put is yet to be won

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  • Tuesday, February 17, 2015
  • | CYP Now
When government plans to introduce Staying Put in foster care were unveiled in late 2013, campaigners were quick to question why the right to stay in a placement up to the age of 21 should not be afforded to young people in residential care as well.

Improving social mobility must start in early years

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  • Tuesday, November 22, 2016
  • | CYP Now
The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States has been portrayed as ultimate confirmation that vast swathes of the western world's population feel left behind by globalisaton and economic policy.

We need young people ?on board, ‘warts and all'

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  • Monday, April 15, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Seventeen-year-old Paris Brown quit as the country's first youth crime commissioner in Kent just days after her appointment for posting offensive tweets in her younger days. Her posts were stupid and naïve at the very least, but how many people's adolescence, past and present, are completely free of stupidity?