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Tesco teams up with Glasgow to promote healthy eating

Monday, March 10, 2008

| CYP Now

Tesco stores in Glasgow are helping children and young people learn about healthy eating and exercise following an agreement with the council.

Review backs compulsory community service

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

| CYP Now

A review of citizenship ordered by the Prime Minister has supported the idea of compulsory civic service for young people.

Commission challenges private schools over charitable status

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

| CYP Now

Independent schools that are registered as charities could be forced to teach students from low-income families.

Campaigners welcome child poverty investment

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

| CYP Now

Groups working with children and young people have broadly welcomed the announcements in the Budget.

Local authorities may lose control of special needs assessment

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Friday, March 14, 2008

| CYP Now

A group of experts is to examine whether distancing special educational needs (SEN) assessment from local authorities would increase parents' confidence in the system.

Green paper sets out measures to prevent family breakdown

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

| CYP Now

The government is to launch a comprehensive review of the family justice system that will focus on settling disputes out of court, under plans set out in the families green paper today.

Nearly half of all young black people left unemployed

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

| CYP Now

The recession has left almost half of young black people unemployed, according to a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

Isle of Wight decision saves some primary schools

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

| CYP Now

Councillors on the Isle of Wight have voted to replace the existing primary, middle and high school structure with a two-tiered system.

Boris urges London businesses to take on apprentices

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

| CYP Now

London Mayor Boris Johnson is challenging businesses in the capital to take on more apprentices as part of plans to help young people weather the economic downturn.

Young people in low paid jobs need more apprenticeships

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Friday, February 5, 2010

| CYP Now

Apprenticeship initiatives are failing to target young people in jobs with no training on offer, according to a report funded by the government's National Apprenticeship Service.

Young people see understanding economy as key life skill

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

| CYP Now

Understanding the economy is now an essential life skill for young people, according to a survey of 14- to 19-year-olds conducted by the Institute for Citizenship.

Unions wary of Conservative co-operative plans

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

| CYP Now

Union leaders have hit out at Tory plans to allow workers such as primary school teachers and nurses to take over the running of public services through new employee led co-operatives.

Third of teachers oppose plans for school report cards

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

| CYP Now

More than a third of teachers oppose government plans to introduce new report cards to grade the quality of schools, a survey has revealed.

Calls for improvements to chain schools inspections

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Monday, February 22, 2010

| CYP Now

Chain schools are less accountable to parents and more difficult to inspect than other schools, according to the latest National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services report.

Public takes dim view of teaching

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

| CYP Now

The public sees teaching as a poorly paid job that offers little chance of career progression, a Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) report has revealed.

Kent County Council announces job cuts in children's services

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Sunday, February 28, 2010

| CYP Now

Kent County Council is to axe 260 jobs in its children, families and education department under plans to save 8 million.

NHS sex pamphlet attracts negative media attention

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

| CYP Now

Skewed media reporting of an NHS pamphlet encouraging frank discussion about young people's sex lives risks damaging debate on the issue, it has been claimed.

Comprehensive Area Assessment fails to cut council workload

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

| CYP Now

The Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) is failing to reduce the inspections burden on councils, a survey by the Local Government Association (LGA) has found.

Teachers need more training in assessing parenting support

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

| CYP Now

Paediatricians and teachers need more training in family support, according to a study by the Family and Parenting Institute.

Nice issues guidance on wellbeing in secondary education

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

| CYP Now

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has issued guidance on promoting the social and emotional wellbeing of young people in secondary education.