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A new-look CYP Now in the new year

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 6, 2010
  • | CYP Now
From January, CYP Now will be making some changes to better reflect your needs. Readers increasingly like to receive their news online but have an appetite to see more considered analysis, comment and information on best practice in print.

Today's youth is vital to big society

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 28, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Conventional wisdom might hold that youth participation -- any work that gives young people a voice and involves them in shaping services -- is near the front of the queue for cuts in our age of austerity.

Children's chiefs key to school reform

    Opinion
  • Friday, July 9, 2010
  • | CYP Now
As the government ploughs full steam ahead with the expansion of academies and free schools, the strategic educational role of local authorities is clearly under threat.

'Wilful neglect' laws won't help recruit social workers

    Other
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2015
  • | CYP Now
A number of reports over the past few weeks have highlighted the extent of the problem facing children's services departments in recruiting experienced social workers. Latest Department for Education figures show that over the past year, children's social worker vacancies have risen nearly 20 per cent so that on average, each English authority now has almost 30 full-time posts unfilled.

England needs in-depth and speedy care review

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
  • | CYP Now
The government has pledged to undertake a review of the care system “to make sure all care placements and settings are providing children and young adults with the support they need”.

Families need urgent action on cost of living

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The UK will enter what is tipped to be, in economic terms, the toughest winter in the post-war era amid warnings from organisations like Barnardo’s and Action for Children that vulnerable families will be hit hardest.

Permanency must be key focus of placement making

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Sorting out the myriad problems with the care system has to be a top priority of Education Secretary Gillian Keegan in 2023. Further evidence – if any were needed – that the system is not working well came with two reports on adoption just before Christmas.

Outstanding challenge for Ofsted

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 1, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Ofsted-bashing has been on the rise for several months. Cries of exasperation over the way the children's services inspectorate goes about its business have come in fits and starts from all quarters.

Careers advice needs clear direction

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 28, 2009
  • | CYP Now
We're in the darkest depths of recession, and about to enter a transformation in post-16 learning through the expansion of diplomas and apprenticeships. Young people could really do with some sure-footed careers advice right now.

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