Search Results

Found 981 results for .

The value of children's trusts

    Other
  • Monday, July 26, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Last week, Education Secretary Michael Gove confirmed that the government plans to reform the way children's trusts operate from this autumn. Joe Lepper speaks to three local authorities to ask if they believe their arrangements are worth saving.

Shared education could bridge the partisan divide

    Other
  • Monday, April 29, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Northern Ireland's education system has been described as one of the most socially divided and segregated. The denominational system means that more than 90 per cent of pupils attend either "Catholic" or "Protestant" schools.

Ditch ‘bedroom tax' to save more children from poverty

    Other
  • Monday, May 13, 2013
  • | CYP Now
I have a sense of déjà vu with regard to the benefit reforms. It reminds me of the last period of austerity in the 1980s. Here we are again, cutting back services and this time demonising the poorest in society and imposing benefit cuts on them.

The hidden helpers

    Other
  • Tuesday, June 11, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Hundreds of thousands of children and young people care for a family member, but their needs often get ignored. Joe Lepper investigates the barriers young carers face in getting the vital support they require.

Current filters