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There's no evidence for childcare ratios change
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Opinion
- Monday, March 27, 2023 | CYP Now
A decade on from its initial failed attempt, the Conservative government has finally decided to push ahead with plans to increase the number of two-year-olds a childcare practitioner can look after.
Sure Start is worth shouting about
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Opinion
- Monday, February 8, 2010 | CYP Now
The post-war Labour government bequeathed us the NHS. Under New Labour, the creation of Sure Start children's centres is the one public service programme to stand any resemblance to that achievement.
Editorial: Childcare proposals have political importance
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | CYP Now
The think-tank Policy Exchange has proposed a bold alternative to childcare funding for under-threes this week, signalling a clear challenge to the present system. As revealed by CYP Now last week, and followed up in this edition (p13), the Little Britons report calls for the creation of a universal Parental Care Allowance (PCA) of 50 to 60 a week per child. It would be financed through the abolitions of the childcare element of the working tax credit, electronic vouchers for childcare payments and the Sure Start Maternity Grant.
Sure Starts need poverty training
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News
- Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | CYP Now
Children's centre workers should be given training on the impact of poverty and disadvantage on family life to help achieve Sure Start's goals.
Opinion: We must not lose sight of Sure Start's aim
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | CYP Now
There has been much debate in recent weeks about the effectiveness of the government's Sure Start children's centre programme.
Editorial: 2020 workforce vision is a bit fuzzy
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | CYP Now
A turbulent year for the sector culminated this week with the publication of the long-anticipated 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy.
Fast-tracked cuts to frontline services will create chaos
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Opinion
- Monday, January 24, 2011 | CYP Now
It is now official: councils are being forced to cut fast and cut deep into frontline services for families, children and young people.
Baton passes to local councillors
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Opinion
- Monday, October 25, 2010 | CYP Now
Its significance takes on epic proportions but the four-year comprehensive spending review was not, in the event, Armageddon.
Help small charities prove their worth
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Opinion
- Monday, November 29, 2010 | CYP Now
The Teens and Toddlers programme featured this week has managed to build up a solid evidence base of its effectiveness in helping young people, giving it the opportunity to expand across the UK.
Gove gives joint working a rude jolt
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 6, 2010 | CYP Now
Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.
Childcare reforms fail to offer a credible solution
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Other
- Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | CYP Now
The government's long-awaited and widely trailed plans to reform childcare are finally out.
Families need health visitor growth plan to get on track
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Opinion
- Monday, October 3, 2011 | CYP Now
Health visiting occupies a privileged position in these times. Unusually for this government, it is a profession with a national strategy driven from the centre.
Workforce development must survive break-up
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Opinion
- Monday, March 19, 2012 | CYP Now
The lights are about to go out on the Children's Workforce Development Council, with its functions hived off to a number of separate agencies.
Invest in early years to level-up attainment
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 29, 2021 | CYP Now
After a period of the attainment gap narrowing – both at the start and end of school – latest analysis shows progress had stalled even before the pandemic.
How childcare can survive recession
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | CYP Now
The huge expansion in childcare over the past decade is one of this government's most visible achievements. Latest estimates suggest that 2.8 million families use childcare. We are now a childcare nation.
Sector must influence the coalition
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Opinion
- Monday, May 17, 2010 | CYP Now
They say that a week is a long time in politics. Quite. As predicted in these pages for many months, the new Tory Secretary of State Michael Gove has renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as the Department for Education.
Labour must produce a clear vision for children
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Other
- Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | CYP Now
After a slow start, Labour seems to be finding its feet in opposition. But with a general election a little over a year away, time is running out for the party to produce a coherent policy vision for children, young people and families.
Small grants are the lifeblood of innovation in our services
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Other
- Tuesday, March 15, 2016 | CYP Now
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