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Youth workers could be the missing link in PSHE
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- Monday, May 13, 2013 | CYP Now
Youth work and schools make strange bedfellows. The very essence of youth work as voluntary and non-formal is certainly at odds with the formal, compulsory nature of school.
One small step for care, one giant leap required
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- Monday, April 29, 2013 | CYP Now
The high-profile cases of children in residential care going missing and being sexually exploited in the past year have sent shockwaves through our society. Last week, the government responded by announcing some important reforms.
We need young people ?on board, ‘warts and all'
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- Monday, April 15, 2013 | CYP Now
Seventeen-year-old Paris Brown quit as the country's first youth crime commissioner in Kent just days after her appointment for posting offensive tweets in her younger days. Her posts were stupid and naïve at the very least, but how many people's adolescence, past and present, are completely free of stupidity?
Families key to success of free childcare plans
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- Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | CYP Now
Here is something of a bombshell for the government's £1.7bn programme to offer free childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds: when these children turn five, that provision will have had no impact on their learning and development.
Time to stop the neglect of long-term foster care
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- Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | CYP Now
Foster carers are responsible for three out of every four looked-after children in the country, and yet their vital role in providing that nurture and support gets barely any attention.
Education for offenders has to make the grade
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
The government's desire to put education at the centre of youth custody and tackle the stubbornly high reoffending rates - still in excess of 70 per cent - is, on the face of it, welcome.
Childcare reforms fail to offer a credible solution
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- Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | CYP Now
The government's long-awaited and widely trailed plans to reform childcare are finally out.
DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department's former ministers.
Youth sector needs help to realise its true value
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- Tuesday, November 27, 2012 | CYP Now
In this prolonged era of spending cuts, services that promote young people's personal and social development - provided by youth workers and others - have suffered among the deepest.
Children need a long-term plan in this spending abyss
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- Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | CYP Now
The country might be out of recession (again), but with the size of the deficit still enormous, public spending shows no sign of returning to growth. In our special report, we examine the long-term challenges and consequences of children's services spend continuing to fall during this decade.
Cuts spell the end of early intervention as we know it
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- Monday, October 15, 2012 | CYP Now
The proposed removal of the Early Intervention Grant to local authorities might not attract the same level of attention as other headline-grabbing plans, such as the abolition of housing benefit for under-25s, but it is without doubt one of the scandals of the year - the policy itself and the way it was (not) communicated.
A vital chance to show that youth services work
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- Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | CYP Now
In times of financial austerity, public services must be able to demonstrate that what they do works.
Children's home system is in urgent need of care
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- Monday, July 9, 2012 | CYP Now
The government's welcome resolve to tackle child sexual exploitation in the wake of the notorious Rochdale child-grooming ring has, inevitably, opened a can of worms over the treatment of children in residential care.
High-qualified early years workforce will benefit all
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- Monday, June 25, 2012 | CYP Now
Three Cs go to Professor Cathy Nutbrown's final report to the government on early years qualifications: it is clear, compelling and courageous.
Minuses outscore pluses on adoption scorecards
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- Monday, June 11, 2012 | CYP Now
As part of its endeavour to speed up the adoption process, the government last month introduced scorecards to rank councils on their performance in placing children in adoptive homes.
Young people ‘not known' due to systemic neglect
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- Monday, May 28, 2012 | CYP Now
It was the former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld who said during one of the most maligned press statements of the 21st Century that "there are known unknowns".
Child sexual exploitation victims must be heard
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- Monday, May 14, 2012 | CYP Now
Child sexual exploitation is often described as one of the great "hidden" scourges in society. But it was propelled into the spotlight in all its sickening brutality last week after nine men from Rochdale and Oldham were sentenced to jail, having plied vulnerable girls with drugs and alcohol and passed ?them around for sex.
Social Work Now: The scourge of domestic violence has to be confronted head-on
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- Tuesday, January 18, 2011 | CYP Now
The reality of domestic violence against women is not truly appreciated in our society.
Addressing the core issues behind failings in children's services
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- Tuesday, May 4, 2010 | CYP Now
Michael Gove is no great fan of Every Child Matters and the statutory obligations for partnership working that have flowed from it, as CYP Now's interview with him last month revealed. His critique has some foundations.
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