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£22m Covid recovery fund aims to keep children's support services open

Thursday, March 25, 2021

| CYP Now

A major funder of community based children's organisations in London has ringfenced £22m to help children and young people’s services survive as the UK recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Covid local support grant: key facts on extra £160m fund for struggling families

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

| CYP Now

Support for families struggling with food and utility costs amid the coronavirus pandemic has been extended.

Top resources for social care, youth work and education practitioners

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Thursday, August 12, 2021

| CYP Now

Charities and organisations working to improve the lives of vulnerable children and those they work with have created a raft of resources to help professionals amid uncertain times.

Extra support during pandemic improves care leavers’ wellbeing

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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

| CYP Now

Additional support offered to care leavers during the Covid-19 pandemic has helped improve their emotional wellbeing and support them to tackle stress, loneliness and anxiety, a study suggests.

Coronavirus: Isolation advice for children's homes and special schools

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Monday, March 23, 2020

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) has issued guidance for children’s homes and residential special schools on managing isolation during the coronavirus outbreak.

Coronavirus: Thousands of children 'have not received substitute free school meals'

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Monday, March 30, 2020

| CYP Now

Tens of thousands of children eligible for free school meals may not have received substitute meals or vouchers after schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, new research suggests.

BASW makes fresh plea for PPE as social worker dies from Covid-19

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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

| CYP Now

Social work leaders have reiterated calls for teams to be issued with personal protective equipment (PPE) after a practitioner at a London council died from coronavirus.

DfE unveils home learning support as fostered children stay away from school

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Monday, April 20, 2020

| CYP Now

The government is to provide disadvantaged and vulnerable children with free computers to support online learning during the coronavirus outbreak.

Sector leaders hit back at 'dangerous' relaxation of councils' statutory duties

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Friday, April 24, 2020

| CYP Now

Sector leaders have hit back over the government’s “unacceptable” decision to relax local authorities' statutory duties to vulnerable children, with many concerned it could be made permanent after lockdown measures are lifted.

ADCS president calls for urgent action to address inequality in first virtual speech

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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

| CYP Now

Financial, social and educational inequality should be addressed as a “priority” as the UK eases out of Covid-19 lockdown, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said.

Consultation over children’s social care exemptions ‘not valid’, damning review claims

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

| CYP Now

A government survey seeking views over the extension of exemptions to children’s social care duties until 2021 is “not valid as a genuine consultation”, a damning academic review of Department for Education documents claims.

Covid-19: Unicef launches first emergency response to tackle UK child food poverty

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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

| CYP Now

Unicef has launched its first ever domestic emergency response to tackle child food poverty across the UK in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Top charities launch coronavirus emergency fund for vulnerable children

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

| CYP Now

High profile charities have come together to form a £5m coronavirus emergency response fund to support vulnerable children and families.

#Chances4Children: Support for young carers returning to school

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

| CYP Now

Two major charities have teamed up to raise awareness of support needed by young carers as they return to school.

MPs removed from anti-poverty charity’s board over free school meals vote

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Thursday, October 29, 2020

| CYP Now

Feeding Britain has removed MPs from its board after one of its trustees voted against extending free school meals to children from low-income families out of term time.

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