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Budget 2015: Charities hit out at £12bn welfare cuts

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to cut £12bn from the welfare bill by reducing entitlement to child tax credits and lowering the benefit cap will have a detrimental impact on children and young people, charities have warned.

Government to scrap Child Poverty Act

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

| CYP Now

The Child Poverty Act will be scrapped and replaced with a system of reporting on levels of children living in workless homes, the government has announced.

Children's commissioners: Cuts will plunge more children into poverty

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

| CYP Now

The government should shelve planned cuts to benefits to prevent more young people falling into poverty, the four UK children's commissioners have said.

Further 200,000 children pushed deeper into poverty

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

| CYP Now

Around 200,000 more children have been pushed deeper into poverty over the past year, it has emerged.

£150m grant scheme opens up to youth work

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth organisations will be able to apply for cash to support their work as part of a £150m grant scheme.

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has been handed new responsibilities for boosting the ‘character and resilience' of young people and tackling bullying, the Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed.

Fifth of families struggle to buy food, campaigners warn

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Friday, May 22, 2015

| CYP Now

One in five families are struggling to provide their children with basic food and heating due to below-inflation rises to children's benefits, child poverty campaigners are warning.

School transition project set for launch

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Monday, April 20, 2015

| CYP Now

Early years providers are to develop closer working with primary schools in two English regions as part of a pilot project to improve the transition of children into formal education.

Conservatives make 30-hour free childcare promise

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

| CYP Now

The Conservative party has pledged to extend free childcare for three- and four-year-olds to 30 hours each week if it wins the general election.

Human rights committee condemns government poverty record

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs have criticised the government for eroding the rights of vulnerable children, including child migrants and those living in poverty.

Judges criticise benefit cap but reject bid to overturn the policy

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

| CYP Now

The Supreme Court has criticised the government's benefit cap for depriving children of the "basic necessities of life" but has ruled out overturning the policy.

Conservative work-for-welfare plans branded 'condescending'

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

| CYP Now

Campaigners have criticised as "punitive and condescending" Conservative Party plans to force long-term unemployed young people to do community service in exchange for state benefits.

Homelessness support fails families with young children, report finds

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Support for the estimated 15,700 babies living in homeless households needs to urgently improve, a damning report by the NSPCC and Anna Freud Centre has found.

Peer accuses incoming commissioner of ‘pussyfooting' around government

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

| CYP Now

The incoming children's commissioner for England has been accused of "pussyfooting" around government after suggesting the coalition has made good progress on children's rights over the past five years.

Government finds extra £74m for crisis support schemes

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

| CYP Now

Child poverty campaigners have welcomed a government U-turn over funding cuts to support and emergency grants for families in crisis.

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Government changes to tax and benefits have hit families with young children and poorer households the hardest, a major study has found.

Children's social workers to learn psychology techniques in trailblazer project

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

| CYP Now

All children's social workers will be trained in advanced psychological counselling techniques as part of a radical shake-up of child protection services in Hertfordshire, funded with nearly £5m of government money.

Childcare providers should do more to tackle child poverty, says commission

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Monday, January 5, 2015

| CYP Now

The government's advisory body on social mobility has urged early years providers and local authorities to do more to tackle child poverty.

Benefit cap fuels housing problems for London councils

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Monday, December 15, 2014

| CYP Now

The benefit cap is hampering local authorities in London in their attempts to move families out of temporary accommodation and into a permanent home, a report has found.

MPs: Teach children how to cook on a budget to beat hunger

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Monday, December 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Fewer families would go hungry in the future if schools were required to teach budgeting and parenting skills, MPs have concluded.

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Budget 2015: Charities hit out at £12bn welfare cuts

Government to scrap Child Poverty Act

Children's commissioners: Cuts will plunge more children into poverty

Further 200,000 children pushed deeper into poverty

£150m grant scheme opens up to youth work

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

Fifth of families struggle to buy food, campaigners warn

School transition project set for launch

Conservatives make 30-hour free childcare promise

Human rights committee condemns government poverty record

Judges criticise benefit cap but reject bid to overturn the policy

Conservative work-for-welfare plans branded 'condescending'

Homelessness support fails families with young children, report finds

Peer accuses incoming commissioner of ‘pussyfooting' around government

Government finds extra £74m for crisis support schemes

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

Children's social workers to learn psychology techniques in trailblazer project

Childcare providers should do more to tackle child poverty, says commission

Benefit cap fuels housing problems for London councils

MPs: Teach children how to cook on a budget to beat hunger

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