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Daily roundup: outdoor play, youth benefits, social work

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Hackney's Play Streets scheme to be rolled out borough-wide; Labour considers barring under 25s from claiming unemployment benefits; and social work leaders raise workload fears, all in the news today.

Councils must be given academy intervention powers, says LGA

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

| CYP Now

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the government to give local authorities the power to tackle poorly performing academies and free schools.

Child welfare expert questions child poverty figures

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Government figures that show a decline in the number of children living in poverty in recent years have been questioned by a child welfare expert.

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

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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

| CYP Now

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.

Students need better advice on further education, warn MPs

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Monday, August 15, 2011

| CYP Now

The government will fail in its attempts to improve quality and choice of education for 16- to 18-year-olds unless relevant information is provided to students and more is done to intervene in poorly performing institutions, a group of MPs has warned.

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

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Friday, March 20, 2015

| CYP Now

A charity that aims to improve the lives of teenagers by recruiting them as mentors for vulnerable toddlers is among four programmes to win social impact bond (SIB) funding through the Youth Engagement Fund.

Apprenticeship system 'failing disadvantaged young people'

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

| CYP Now

Disadvantaged young people are being failed by the apprenticeship system, the Social Mobility Commission has warned.

Select committees join forces to push for compulsory PSHE lessons

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Friday, January 8, 2016

| CYP Now

A group of MPs from four parliamentary select committees have called on Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to introduce compulsory personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education in schools.

Government urged to drop church youth work inspection plans

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Monday, April 25, 2016

| CYP Now

Christian organisations have called on the government to scrap plans that would see Ofsted inspect out-of-school education settings, including church youth groups.??

Ofsted to bring childcare inspections back in-house

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted is set to announce plans to bring the inspection of early years settings back in-house, CYP Now can exclusively reveal.

Call for ‘Neet premium' to re-engage young people

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Friday, June 27, 2014

| CYP Now

The government should introduce a financial premium to help re-engage hard-to-reach 16- and 17-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neet), a report suggests.

Call for schools to improve vocational training advice

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Friday, March 6, 2015

| CYP Now

School careers advice services must give greater priority to promoting vocational training opportunities, a youth training organisation has said.

Budget 2021: Training providers praise jobs boost for under-25s

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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

| CYP Now

Post-16 education leaders have praised investment in traineeships and apprenticeships for young people as part of the Chancellor’s Budget.

Cuts 'risk the future' of thousands of young people, councils warn

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Friday, June 5, 2015

| CYP Now

Fewer than one in 10 councils have sufficient powers and funding to meet their legal duties to support young people who are not in employment, education or training (Neet), it has been claimed.

MPs call for urgent changes to pupil premium

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Friday, October 9, 2015

| CYP Now

More needs to be done to ensure the pupil premium improves outcomes for disadvantaged children, a group of MPs has said.

Charities urge more help in tackling pressures facing girls

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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

| CYP Now

A "perfect storm" of life pressures is harming girls' mental wellbeing, and government and schools need to do more to help reduce them, two children's charities have said. ??

Daily roundup: Buses, measles and youth custody

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Friday, April 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Bus cuts hit young people; two million at risk of measles, and a secure training centre is rated good, all in the news today.

Future of early years training standards group in doubt

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Thursday, September 27, 2018

| CYP Now

The future of an employee-led group established by government to develop early years training standards is in doubt after its lead member Busy Bees, the UK's largest nursery chain quit.

Youth work wins backing for role in schools

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

| CYP Now

An overwhelming majority of school-based professionals believe youth work should play a role in formal education, according to a study.

Charity predicts increase in truancy due to raising of participation age

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Monday, September 2, 2013

| CYP Now

The rise in the education leaving age to 17, which has come into force this week, will cause the truancy rate to rocket according to Barnardo's.

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Daily roundup: outdoor play, youth benefits, social work

Councils must be given academy intervention powers, says LGA

Child welfare expert questions child poverty figures

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

Students need better advice on further education, warn MPs

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

Apprenticeship system 'failing disadvantaged young people'

Select committees join forces to push for compulsory PSHE lessons

Government urged to drop church youth work inspection plans

Ofsted to bring childcare inspections back in-house

Call for ‘Neet premium' to re-engage young people

Call for schools to improve vocational training advice

Budget 2021: Training providers praise jobs boost for under-25s

Cuts 'risk the future' of thousands of young people, councils warn

MPs call for urgent changes to pupil premium

Charities urge more help in tackling pressures facing girls

Daily roundup: Buses, measles and youth custody

Future of early years training standards group in doubt

Youth work wins backing for role in schools

Charity predicts increase in truancy due to raising of participation age

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