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Rishi Sunak pressed to bring forward register of home-schooled children

Monday, December 5, 2022

| CYP Now

The Prime Minister has been urged to push forward with plans for an elective home education (EHE) register after he was grilled on the matter during Prime Minister's Questions.

Third UK lockdown had ‘biggest negative impact’ on children’s mental health

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Covid-19 restrictions introduced in early 2021 had the biggest negative impact on the mental health and wellbeing of children than any other lockdown during the pandemic, research has found.

Logan Mwangi: ‘Opportunities missed’ to protect five-year-old, safeguarding review finds

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Monday, November 28, 2022

| CYP Now

A series of missed opportunities by health and social care professionals to protect a five-year-old boy murdered by his mother, her partner and his stepson have been highlighted in a child practice review into his death.

CYP Now Awards winners revealed on night of celebration

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Friday, November 25, 2022

| CYP Now

The winners of the 2022 Children and Young People Now Awards were unveiled at a glittering ceremony in London.

Sector backs Longfield’s call for ‘Sure Start for teenagers’

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Monday, November 7, 2022

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Sector leaders have backed calls by former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield to create 1,000 community hubs dubbed ‘Sure Start for teenagers’ to support those more at risk from criminal exploitation.

Teacher-led tutoring favoured by schools, Ofsted finds

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

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Tutoring sessions taught by qualified teachers tend to be of higher quality than sessions led by other tutors and are favoured by school leaders, a new report by Ofsted finds.

Childcare experts urge MPs to address recruitment crisis

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

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Early years experts and researchers have asked a group of cross-party MPs to address a recruitment and retention crisis facing the sector, reporting high staff turnover due to low morale, high workloads and low wages.

CQC highlights concerns over young people’s mental health services

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

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Growing health inequalities and increasing demand for services, particularly support for eating disorders, are among key challenges facing children and young people’s mental health provision, according to a new report.

Catch-up tutoring scheme must better target disadvantaged pupils, report warns

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

| CYP Now

A government tutoring scheme aimed at helping pupils to catch-up on education missed during the Covid-19 pandemic needs to improve its targeting of disadvantaged pupils to ensure it is effective, according to researchers.

Study reveals pandemic’s impact on young people’s career and study plans

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

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Girls and disadvantaged pupils are more likely than their peers to have changed their career and education plans due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey has revealed.

Revamped tutoring scheme risks missing disadvantaged pupils, charity warns

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Thursday, October 6, 2022

| CYP Now

Changes to the way the government’s Covid-19 education catch-up programme is run risks disadvantaged children missing out on tutoring, one of the scheme’s founding partners has warned.

Mental health and cost-of-living crisis ‘double threat’ to young ethnic minority people

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

| CYP Now

The wellbeing of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds is at risk from a “double threat” of rising costs and an increase in mental health issues following the pandemic, a survey is warning.

Loughton calls for action on social work recruitment crisis

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

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Former children’s minister Tim Loughton wants to see recommendations made in the Independent Review of Children’s Social care used as a “platform” to tackle a "crisis" in recruitment and retention of children’s social workers.

Newham children’s services jumps from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ in three years

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

| CYP Now

Ofsted inspectors have praised improvements at Newham council’s children’s services three years after they handed the department its lowest rating.

Number of young people starting apprenticeships below pre-pandemic levels

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

| CYP Now

Apprenticeship starts among young people during the last academic year have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, new data shows.

Primary school attainment gap widest in a decade

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

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The attainment gap between disadvantaged primary school pupils and their better-off peers is at its widest in 10 years, according to latest government data.

National Children’s Bureau to run Covid recovery early years practice hubs

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Monday, August 15, 2022

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The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) has been appointed by the government to run its Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs programme.

Call to extend pupil premium to over-16s to aid pandemic catch up

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

| CYP Now

The pupil premium given to schools to support disadvantaged children should be extended to post-16 education in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, The Sutton Trust has said.

UK Youth boss to help shape government’s Covid commemoration plans

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

| CYP Now

UK Youth chief executive Ndidi Okezie has been named as one of 11 members of a commission set up by the government to develop plans to commemorate the impact of the Covid pandemic.

Children’s mental health services ‘buckling’ under post-Covid pressure, Longfield warns

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Monday, August 1, 2022

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Former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield has warned that vulnerable young people are at greater risk of exploitation, serious violence and abuse, as children’s mental health services struggle to cope with a post-Covid rise in demand.

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Rishi Sunak pressed to bring forward register of home-schooled children

Third UK lockdown had ‘biggest negative impact’ on children’s mental health

Logan Mwangi: ‘Opportunities missed’ to protect five-year-old, safeguarding review finds

CYP Now Awards winners revealed on night of celebration

Sector backs Longfield’s call for ‘Sure Start for teenagers’

Teacher-led tutoring favoured by schools, Ofsted finds

Childcare experts urge MPs to address recruitment crisis

CQC highlights concerns over young people’s mental health services

Catch-up tutoring scheme must better target disadvantaged pupils, report warns

Study reveals pandemic’s impact on young people’s career and study plans

Revamped tutoring scheme risks missing disadvantaged pupils, charity warns

Mental health and cost-of-living crisis ‘double threat’ to young ethnic minority people

Loughton calls for action on social work recruitment crisis

Newham children’s services jumps from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ in three years

Number of young people starting apprenticeships below pre-pandemic levels

Primary school attainment gap widest in a decade

National Children’s Bureau to run Covid recovery early years practice hubs

Call to extend pupil premium to over-16s to aid pandemic catch up

UK Youth boss to help shape government’s Covid commemoration plans

Children’s mental health services ‘buckling’ under post-Covid pressure, Longfield warns

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