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Sure Starts need poverty training

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  • Tuesday, September 18, 2007
  • | CYP Now
Children's centre workers should be given training on the impact of poverty and disadvantage on family life to help achieve Sure Start's goals.

Editorial: You have to be inside the tent to influence decisions

    News
  • Monday, March 31, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The decision by children's minister Edward Timpson to commission what amounts to a feasibility study into the widespread outsourcing of struggling children's services represents the thin end of the wedge (news roundup, p5). While the study is linked directly to the future of children's social care in Birmingham, the fact it has one eye on developing alternative delivery models that can be applied elsewhere means the government is determined to make it easier for councils to outsource services if they are deemed to be failing.

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