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How I Got Here: Sharon Lovell, National Youth Advocacy Service

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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Sharon Lovell, National executive director (Wales), National Youth Advocacy Service, on her career landmarks.

How I Got Here: Sharon Davies, chief executive, Young Enterprise

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

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I left home at an early age, and after several jobs including potato picking and working on a turkey farm, I first came into contact with youth work when I was 19, working in a supermarket.

Leadership: Inclusive recruitment

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

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Individuals from diverse backgrounds offer employers a wealth of talent. Inclusive recruitment means not defining people by the challenges they face, but recognising the strengths they bring to a workplace.

Why we changed careers to work with children

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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Many children’s and youth services are experiencing staffing shortages and need to recruit new blood. Tom de Castella explores why some people change career to work in the sector.

Action on childcare workforce

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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Lack of support has created a "hotchpotch" of skills among staff, which needs targeted measures to address.

Louis Boyd: How I Got Here

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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Statutory partnerships manager at Volunteering Matters Louis Boyd discusses his career to date.

Ella Hallpike: How I Got Here

Thursday, January 2, 2020

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Ella Hallpike, youth support co-ordinator at the Teenage Cancer Trust, on her career so far.

Karen Childs Smith: How I Got Here

Monday, April 29, 2019

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Karen Childs Smith, head of knowledge and information at NSPCC Learning, discusses her career.

Steep fall in apprenticeships take-up by young people

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

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Government reforms designed to boost take-up of its apprenticeships programme have been met with sharp falls among young new starters, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

Study to examine poor outcomes of care leavers

Monday, March 4, 2019

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Understanding why unemployment and poor education affects so many young people after leaving care is to be the subject of a major study.

Labour calls for 'radical overhaul' in apprenticeships

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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The government's skills policy needs a "radical overhaul", the shadow international trade minister has suggested.

CYP Now 2018 Award winners unveiled

Thursday, November 22, 2018

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The 2018 CYP Now Awards were revealed last night on a night of celebration and pride for the sector.

Organisational Factors, Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave Among Newly Qualified Social Workers in England

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

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This article reports on a longitudinal study of 280 social work students, focusing on their experiences as newly qualified social workers (NQSWs). It reports on the relative importance of their satisfaction with different work elements (e.g. supervision and job engagement) and uses the findings to construct a model of NQSWs' overall satisfaction and their intention to remain in or leave their job.

Tell us about your achievements: enter the 2018 Children & Young People Now Awards

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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The 2018 Children & Young People Now Awards are open for entries to organisations, individuals and teams from across the UK.

Damian Hinds replaces Justine Greening as Education Secretary

Monday, January 8, 2018

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Former employment minister Damian Hinds has been made Education Secretary following a government reshuffle.

Former minister calls for incentives for schools to promote apprenticeships

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

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Schools should be incentivised to promote apprenticeships as a positive career option for young people, a former education minister has said.

Call for overhaul of 'perverse' apprenticeships funding system

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

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Training providers are calling for an overhaul of the government's apprenticeship programme to prevent young people being frozen out of placements.

Children & Young People Now Awards 2017: The shortlist

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

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The judges have examined all the entries, and we can unveil the shortlist for the CYP Now Awards 2017.

Temporary work 'placing mental health of young people at risk'

Thursday, July 27, 2017

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Young people in temporary work are nearly 30 per cent more likely to experience mental health problems than their counterparts in permanent work, a study has found.

Keeping Your Head: NfER Analysis of Head Teacher Retention

Thursday, June 1, 2017

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An increasing number of teachers are leaving the profession before retirement. The National Foundation for Educational Research (NfER) wanted to find out whether head teachers are also leaving headships in increasing numbers.

Call for next government to make careers education statutory

Thursday, May 25, 2017

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The next government should place a statutory responsibility on schools to provide careers education to boost the quality of advice on offer, a professional body representing staff in the sector has said.

Volunteer school mentor numbers top 1,300

Monday, March 6, 2017

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More than 1,300 volunteer mentors are now working in schools across England as part of efforts to boost careers education, it has emerged.

MP calls for schools to be required to open doors to external careers advisers

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

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An MP has made a bid to change the law in order to force schools to give colleges and other post-16 education and training providers access to their pupils.

Sports charity gets £1.2m to help young people into work

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

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A charity that uses sport to help unemployed young people find work, education and training opportunities has been handed £1.2m to help expand its reach this year.

High demand for Jobcentre Plus advisers in schools, study finds

Friday, December 9, 2016

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Jobcentre Plus advisers in schools are in high demand ahead of a national roll-out in three months time, according to a study.

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