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Conservative Conference 2011: Intervention plans must be sensitive to families' needs, charity chief warns

Sunday, October 2, 2011

| CYP Now

Plans to turn around the lives of England's 120,000 most troubled families will falter unless the government conducts a detailed analysis of exactly which families these are, the chief executive of Family Action has warned.

Cameron backs Early Intervention Foundation

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Friday, September 16, 2011

| CYP Now

Prime Minister David Cameron has offered his support to the concept of an Early Intervention Foundation to promote effective practice, suggesting government funding could be available.

Half of families will struggle to pay child maintenance fees

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

| CYP Now

Close to half (46 per cent) of single parents currently using the Child Support Agency (CSA) will not be able to afford proposed fees to access the new child maintenance service, a poll by charity Gingerbread has found.

Tens of thousands set to lose legal advice

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

| CYP Now

Close to 70,000 young people struggling with problems relating to issues such as homelessness and employment face losing access to free legal advice due to government plans to cut the legal aid budget by 350m, a report has warned.

Welfare Reform Bill puts families with disabled parents at risk, warns charity

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

| CYP Now

Thousands of families with disabled parents and young carers are expected to lose out on vital benefits unless the Welfare Reform Bill is amended, a charity has warned.

Councils to share 6m intensive support fund

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

| CYP Now

The government has announced that 37 councils will receive a share of 6m to develop and expand intensive support for vulnerable families and foster carers.

Social impact bonds to raise 40m investment in early intervention

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Friday, August 26, 2011

| CYP Now

The government is hoping to raise 40m from private investors as part of a trial into the use of social impact bonds to fund family intervention projects.

DfE offers councils cash boost for community budgets pilot

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

| CYP Now

Councils taking part in a pilot scheme to support families with complex needs are to receive a cash boost of 20,000 from the Department for Education (DfE), CYP Now has learned.

Older children miss out on early intervention, says Catch22

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

| CYP Now

The government's vision for supporting families through early interventions is short-sighted as it only focuses on the youngest children, a charity has claimed.

Benefit cuts to be challenged in High Court

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

| CYP Now

A High Court judge is set to rule on the legality of controversial housing benefit cuts after a child poverty charity launched a legal challenge.

Charities react to Cameron's desire to stigmatise absent fathers

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Monday, June 20, 2011

| CYP Now

Calls by David Cameron to give absent fathers a tough time have received a mixed response from leading charities.

Review urges clampdown on children's exposure to sexualised imagery

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

| CYP Now

Sexually explicit music videos, outdoor advertising and sexual content in family television programmes have all come under fire in a review into the sexualisation and commercialisation of childhood.

Charities call on PCTs to fund carers' breaks

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Monday, May 23, 2011

| CYP Now

Fears are mounting that cash-strapped primary care trusts (PCTs) will not pass on short break funding for young carers.

4Children campaign renews calls for investment in early intervention

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Monday, May 9, 2011

| CYP Now

Seven out of ten people believe councils and central government are wrong to focus funding on the most disruptive families, prompting charity 4Children to renew calls for a greater focus on early intervention.

MP calls for emergency housing programme to help families in crisis

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Friday, May 6, 2011

| CYP Now

A housing crisis in the London Borough of Hillingdon has left families living in "developing world conditions", according to the area's MP.

Campaigners seek to save crisis fund for families

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

| CYP Now

Child poverty campaigners have stepped up their fight against the abolition of the Social Fund.

Home-Start launches project to help families gain full benefits

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

| CYP Now

A project to help families gain their full benefits entitlement is to be launched across most of the UK.

DfE offers funding for development of intensive interventions for vulnerable children

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Friday, March 18, 2011

| CYP Now

The Department for Education is inviting councils and partner agencies to bid for up to 200,000 of funding to develop intensive interventions for looked-after children or children on the edge of care or custody.

Sibling carers face a battle for support

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Friday, March 18, 2011

| CYP Now

Young people who care for younger siblings face a battle to get support from councils and other agencies, a report has found.

Rise in demand for Barnardo's emergency grant sparks calls for Budget shake-up

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's charity Barnardo's has revealed demand for its emergency grants has risen by 19 per cent since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007, sparking calls for vulnerable families to be afforded more protection in next week's Budget.

National standards set to boost status of independent sexual violence advisers

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

| CYP Now

Training body Skills for Justice has announced plans to boost the profile of independent sexual violence advisers.

MPs urged to oppose child support proposals

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| CYP Now

MPs have been urged to oppose controversial changes to child support by a group of organisations including Gingerbread and the Children's Society.

Child Poverty Action Group launches legal challenge to welfare reforms

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Monday, March 7, 2011

| CYP Now

The government is to face a legal challenge to controversial welfare reforms after the Child Poverty Action Group announced it has issued proceedings for judicial review.

Big Lottery Fund launches 20m scheme to join up services for families

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Monday, March 7, 2011

| CYP Now

The Big Lottery Fund is to launch a 20m initiative to finance joined-up support services for families with complex needs.

Fears for low-income families as DWP plans to abolish Social Fund

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| CYP Now

A fund that helps low-income families with living costs that are not covered by weekly benefits is set to be scrapped under the government's benefit reforms, it has emerged.

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Conservative Conference 2011: Intervention plans must be sensitive to families' needs, charity chief warns

Cameron backs Early Intervention Foundation

Half of families will struggle to pay child maintenance fees

Tens of thousands set to lose legal advice

Welfare Reform Bill puts families with disabled parents at risk, warns charity

Councils to share 6m intensive support fund

Social impact bonds to raise 40m investment in early intervention

DfE offers councils cash boost for community budgets pilot

Older children miss out on early intervention, says Catch22

Benefit cuts to be challenged in High Court

Charities react to Cameron's desire to stigmatise absent fathers

Review urges clampdown on children's exposure to sexualised imagery

Charities call on PCTs to fund carers' breaks

4Children campaign renews calls for investment in early intervention

MP calls for emergency housing programme to help families in crisis

Campaigners seek to save crisis fund for families

Home-Start launches project to help families gain full benefits

DfE offers funding for development of intensive interventions for vulnerable children

Sibling carers face a battle for support

Rise in demand for Barnardo's emergency grant sparks calls for Budget shake-up

National standards set to boost status of independent sexual violence advisers

MPs urged to oppose child support proposals

Child Poverty Action Group launches legal challenge to welfare reforms

Big Lottery Fund launches 20m scheme to join up services for families

Fears for low-income families as DWP plans to abolish Social Fund

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