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MPs urged to oppose child support proposals

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.

Sibling carers face a battle for support

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Friday, March 18, 2011

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

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.

Boost early years support to improve social mobility, commission says

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

| CYP Now

The early years pupil premium should be doubled as part of efforts to combat worsening life chances for children and young people across the UK, the Social Mobility Commission has said.

Payment-by-results outreach service to further bolster support for troubled families

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

| CYP Now

The government has invested 200m in a payment-by-results scheme offering outreach support to the UK's most troubled families.

Low-income families blighted by cost of children's birthday parties

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

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The cost of children's birthday parties is plunging disadvantaged families into financial difficulty, a report has found.

Government to pump £200m more into Troubled Families programme

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Monday, June 24, 2013

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The government is to spend £200m to expand the Troubled Families programme to a further 400,000 families.

Daily roundup: youth unemployment, benefit cap, and mental health

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Government advisers brand Youth Contract a failure; benefit cap not helping struggling households into work research finds; and child mental health survey needs to be reinstated, say psychiatrists, all in the news today.

Family therapists warn against unaccredited practitioners

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

| CYP Now

Families seeking therapy are being misled by inaccurate job titles, the Association for Family Therapy (AFT) has warned.

Major crackdown on FGM to launch in London

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Friday, April 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Women who are victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) are to be referred to children's social services and police as part of a pioneering project intended to prevent a further generation of girls being subjected to the abuse.

Eight out of ten fast-track social workers secure jobs

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Around eighty per cent of students taking the fast-track Step Up to Social Work postgraduate course have secured jobs as children's social workers.

Campaign aims to challenge misconceptions over who can foster

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Monday, May 12, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly three quarters of people believe they would not be accepted as foster carers, with gay, lesbian, retired, young adults and single people among the most pessimistic about their chances, according to a survey.

County councils call for 'devolution' to boost children's services

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

| CYP Now

County councils should be given five-year finance settlements and more power over budgets as part of a "devolution" package that would help improve children's services, a local authority group has said.

Children of parents who abuse alcohol miss out on support

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Friday, October 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Children of parents who misuse alcohol are missing out on help and protection because local services sometimes fail to identify their needs, a report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner has found.

Somerset sacks £320k DCS over 'too little, too slow' progress

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Monday, October 20, 2014

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Somerset County Council has announced it has terminated the contract of the interim director of children's services (DCS) for failing to deliver improvements at the struggling authority quickly enough.

Mothers' mental health problems take £5.5bn toll on children

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Mental health conditions in children and young people that are linked to their mothers' emotional problems in early parenthood costs society and the economy around £5.5bn annually, a study suggests.