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Call for schools to improve vocational training advice

Friday, March 6, 2015

| CYP Now

School careers advice services must give greater priority to promoting vocational training opportunities, a youth training organisation has said.

Job training plan aims to help 10,000 Birmingham young people

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

| CYP Now

A programme has been launched to create 10,000 work experience opportunities for unemployed young people in Birmingham.

Deaf student challenges proposed DSA changes

News

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

| CYP Now

A legal challenge is being launched against the government over proposed changes to the way support for disabled students is funded.

Post-16 study failings cost £800m, says LGA

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Monday, February 2, 2015

| CYP Now

More than £800m of education money is being "wasted" by schools and colleges because of poor advice being given to students about post-16 study options, local government leaders have said.

Unions launch careers advice campaign

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Trade unions are calling for every young person to have access to face-to-face careers guidance provided by highly qualified professionals.

Ofsted chief: Poor leadership, not structures, causes schools to fail

News

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

| CYP Now

The debate on whether schools should remain under local authority control in order to maintain standards is "outdated" and "sterile", according to Ofsted's chief inspector.

Government rejects child poverty commission targets

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

| CYP Now

Government efforts to tackle child poverty have been branded a "fairytale" after it rejected calls to introduce a range of new targets aimed at improving social mobility.

More specialist advisers needed to tackle careers guidance 'postcode lottery'

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Schools and further education colleges should be able to access specialist careers advisers as part of an expanded National Careers Service, a report by academics at the University of Derby concludes.

NDNA urges early years expertise in new school inspection framework

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Friday, October 10, 2014

| CYP Now

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has warned that the move to a single inspection framework covering all education provision must not lead to further "schoolification" of the early years.

Conservative Party Conference: Call for youth sector to promote informal education

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

| CYP Now

Youth organisations must do more to promote the value of informal education, the chief executive of Girlguiding has said.

Conservatives plan to link youth jobseeker payments to ‘community work'

News

Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Young people aged 18 to 21 and out of work or training for more than six months will need to do community work to continue receiving jobseeker's allowance (JSA), Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Conservative Party Conference: 'Train youth workers to support young entrepreneurs'

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Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Youth workers need to be trained to better support disadvantaged young people to become more entrepreneurial, the deputy chief executive of the National Youth Agency (NYA) has said.

Ofsted warns over Neet risk of new study programmes

News

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Low-quality study programmes are increasing young people's chances of dropping out of school and training post-16, a report has warned.

Give councils more powers to monitor post-16 education outcomes, says Ofsted

News

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted is to call on the government to give local authorities legal powers to obtain data from schools and training providers on the number of young people dropping out of education.

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

News

Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Figures show fall in English GCSE grades; number of fines issued to parents in Suffolk for allowing their children to miss school rises by 500 per cent; and Department for Education reveals drop in young people not in education, employment or training, all in the news today.

Participation age reforms at risk of failure, report warns

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Improvements to careers advice and courses are needed if raising the school participation age to 18 is to succeed in improving young people's lives, a report has warned.

Apprenticeship funding changes could hit scheme places, employers warn

News

Monday, August 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Latest government plans to overhaul apprenticeship funding will discourage employer participation and reduce the number of places for young people, training providers have warned.

Ofsted considers merging early years, schools and FE inspections

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Monday, August 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted is looking at plans to merge its early years, schools and further education inspections under a single framework.

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

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Friday, July 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Numbers of pupils to top eight million by 2023; London mayor launches drive to tackle child obesity; and school extremism report leaked, all in the news today.

Brooks Newmark takes on youth work and charities brief

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Brooks Newmark has been confirmed as the new minister for civil society with responsibility for youth services and the voluntary sector.

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Call for schools to improve vocational training advice

Job training plan aims to help 10,000 Birmingham young people

Deaf student challenges proposed DSA changes

Post-16 study failings cost £800m, says LGA

Unions launch careers advice campaign

Ofsted chief: Poor leadership, not structures, causes schools to fail

Government rejects child poverty commission targets

More specialist advisers needed to tackle careers guidance 'postcode lottery'

NDNA urges early years expertise in new school inspection framework

Conservative Party Conference: Call for youth sector to promote informal education

Conservatives plan to link youth jobseeker payments to ‘community work'

Conservative Party Conference: 'Train youth workers to support young entrepreneurs'

Ofsted warns over Neet risk of new study programmes

Give councils more powers to monitor post-16 education outcomes, says Ofsted

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

Participation age reforms at risk of failure, report warns

Apprenticeship funding changes could hit scheme places, employers warn

Ofsted considers merging early years, schools and FE inspections

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

Brooks Newmark takes on youth work and charities brief

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