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Charity pilots fathers programme in children's centres

Monday, July 20, 2009

| CYP Now

Charity Action for Children is to pilot a programme in children's centres across the South of England, to test how well its services are responding to the needs of fathers.

Degree courses for children's professionals launched

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

| CYP Now

New postgraduate degree programmes, designed to promote better communication between professionals working with children and young people, were launched at a Birmingham university today.

Government urged to scrap 'flawed' Child Poverty Bill

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Friday, October 30, 2009

| CYP Now

The government is being called on to scrap the Child Poverty Bill and radically overhaul its child poverty targets.

New play area for Sussex school

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Friday, August 15, 2008

| CYP Now

Volunteers from a collective including East Sussex County Council and energy company EDF have helped build a safe play area for children at a local primary school.

Mums go it alone in business to achieve work-life balance

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

| CYP Now

One in 10 working mothers has started their own business so they can achieve their career ambitions and raise a family, according to Netmums.com.

Free childcare for families to get back in to work

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Monday, September 8, 2008

| CYP Now

Low-income families are to be given free childcare so they can go to training courses and get back in to work.

EYFS results show girls still outperform boys before school

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

| CYP Now

Boys are continuing to do less well than girls before they start school, results for the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) for 2010 show.

Health and safety regulations to be changed to allow children to experience risk

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Friday, October 15, 2010

| CYP Now

The government is to overhaul health and safety rules to ensure children's play areas are more exciting.

Lack of childcare could harm asylum applications

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

| CYP Now

The cases put forward by asylum-seeking parents and their children may be suffering due to a lack of childcare facilities in UK Border Agency offices, it has been claimed.

Four-fifths of councils unprepared for holiday childcare

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

| CYP Now

Only one in five local authorities are confident they have sufficient childcare in place to meet parental need over the summer holidays, according to research by childcare charity Daycare Trust.

Daycare Trust's Alison Garnham to join Child Poverty Action Group

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

| CYP Now

Daycare Trust chief executive Alison Garnham is to quit to take up the same role with the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).

Shake-up to early years funding welcomed by 4Children

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Monday, July 26, 2010

| CYP Now

The charity 4Children has welcomed the government's backing for a single funding formula for the early years sector.

School staff told not to do the work of colleagues on strike

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

| CYP Now

Education professionals who are not striking are being reminded not to take on extra work while their colleagues join the picket lines during tomorrow's mass strike action.

VAT cut little help to nurseries

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

| CYP Now

The cut in VAT announced by the Chancellor yesterday (24 November) will only lead to small savings for nurseries, says the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).

Parents encouraged to oppose closure of Sure Start centres

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Monday, March 14, 2011

| CYP Now

Parents are being encouraged to form campaign groups to fight the closure of children's centres in their area.

Charities concerned over Happy Times closure

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Monday, December 8, 2008

| CYP Now

Children's charities have called on the government to ensure that children in early years education do not become "the next victims" of the current economic downturn.

Review calls for EYFS to be streamlined to cut down on bureaucracy

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

| CYP Now

Dame Clare Tickell has proposed that the 69 learning targets set out in the curriculum for under-fives be reduced to 17 to cut down on bureaucracy and increase practitioners' contact time with children.

Financial squeeze hits Sure Start and youth provision hardest, LGA study confirms

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Friday, April 1, 2011

| CYP Now

Youth provision and Sure Start are suffering heavier cuts than other children's services, a survey of council finance directors has confirmed.

Welfare reforms "flawed" says child poverty charity

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

| CYP Now

Government welfare reforms which will oblige the unemployed to prepare for work in return for benefits are "seriously flawed" according to campaigners against child poverty.

Children's services directors honoured in new year list

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

| CYP Now

Hampshire's director of children's services John Coughlan and Dudley DCS John Freeman are among more than 100 people honoured for their work with children and young people this new year.

Concerns raised over dramatic fall in nursery providers and places

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

| CYP Now

An "alarming" cut in the number of nursery providers and places has been revealed in latest Ofsted figures.

Families at heart of political agenda

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Monday, May 23, 2011

| CYP Now

Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband have sought to put families and young people at the heart of their political agendas.

Children's Society urges rethink of potentially 'damaging' welfare reforms

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

| CYP Now

The Children's Society is the latest group to unveil evidence claiming vulnerable families will be worse off and have less incentive to work under the government's welfare reforms.

Nursery health campaign extended to reach more parents

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

| CYP Now

An annual national health campaign that encourages nurseries to showcase their commitment to healthy lifestyles will be longer than usual next month in order to involve more parents.

Charities react to Cameron's desire to stigmatise absent fathers

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Monday, June 20, 2011

| CYP Now

Calls by David Cameron to give absent fathers a tough time have received a mixed response from leading charities.

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Charity pilots fathers programme in children's centres

Degree courses for children's professionals launched

Government urged to scrap 'flawed' Child Poverty Bill

New play area for Sussex school

Mums go it alone in business to achieve work-life balance

Free childcare for families to get back in to work

EYFS results show girls still outperform boys before school

Health and safety regulations to be changed to allow children to experience risk

Lack of childcare could harm asylum applications

Four-fifths of councils unprepared for holiday childcare

Daycare Trust's Alison Garnham to join Child Poverty Action Group

Shake-up to early years funding welcomed by 4Children

School staff told not to do the work of colleagues on strike

VAT cut little help to nurseries

Parents encouraged to oppose closure of Sure Start centres

Charities concerned over Happy Times closure

Review calls for EYFS to be streamlined to cut down on bureaucracy

Financial squeeze hits Sure Start and youth provision hardest, LGA study confirms

Welfare reforms "flawed" says child poverty charity

Children's services directors honoured in new year list

Concerns raised over dramatic fall in nursery providers and places

Families at heart of political agenda

Children's Society urges rethink of potentially 'damaging' welfare reforms

Nursery health campaign extended to reach more parents

Charities react to Cameron's desire to stigmatise absent fathers

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