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Daily roundup: Junk food, child porn and social work ethics

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Food firms accused of bypassing ad rules, government summit to tackle child porn online, and a code of ethics for social workers, all in the news today.

Children's workforce recognised in birthday honours list

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Monday, June 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Contact a Family chief executive Srabani Sen is among a raft of children's charity bosses honoured in the Queen's birthday honours list.

London hospital expands youth work service

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Friday, May 31, 2013

| CYP Now

One of the few hospital-based youth work services in England is expanding to tackle a rise in the number of young women coming forward with sexual health problems.

Charities secure government contract to improve young people's health

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Friday, May 31, 2013

| CYP Now

The Department of Health has appointed a consortium of seven youth charities to be its strategic partner in helping to improve health services for young people.

Girls in gangs ‘face greater mental health risks'

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Girls with links to gangs are the most vulnerable group in the youth justice system, a study has found.

Troubled families initiative misses first-year target

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils have missed a first-year target for the number of families they worked with under the government's flagship troubled families initiative.

Unison issues manifesto for youth

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Unison has published a manifesto for young people after conducting a poll that found 93 per cent of young people think the government is not doing enough to help them.

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

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Monday, April 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Rochdale faces legal action over care comments; no further action against former youth police and crime commissioner, and half of youth service jobs to go in Warwickshire, all in the news today.

CYP Now 2013 Awards open for entry

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Monday, April 15, 2013

| CYP Now

The 2013 Children & Young People Now Awards - the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK - are open for entries.

Deaf young people 'face exclusion from services'

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Monday, April 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authority commissioning processes are making it harder to provide services for young disabled people, a charity has warned.

Youth commission to advise on tobacco-free target

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people in Scotland are to advise the Scottish Government on preventing smoking at a young age, as part of a bid to make the country tobacco free.

Osborne protects schools from cuts but leaves other services exposed

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Budget protects schools and health from departmental spending cuts but youth work, social care and early years could be hit.

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

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Friday, March 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.

Third of professionals work with children who 'go hungry' daily

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Monday, February 25, 2013

| CYP Now

A third of children's services professionals say the young people they work with are failing to get enough to eat on a daily basis, according to a survey conducted by the Children's Food Trust.

Call for employers to promote young people's health

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Friday, February 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Employers are being urged to sign up to a pledge promising to take personal responsibility for promoting young people's health and wellbeing in the workplace.

MP backs youth work training to tackle eating disorders

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Monday, February 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Youth workers and school staff should be trained to spot the signs of eating disorders and how to offer basic help and support, an MP has said.

Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Central government must urgently consult local authorities on how new "social value" laws could impact on children's services, it has been has warned.

Sexual health service cuts could cost taxpayers £10bn, report warns

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

| CYP Now

Cuts to sexual health services could saddle taxpayers with an additional £10bn bill to deal with increases in unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, charities have warned.

Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Plans to redirect £150m of early intervention funding into adoption reform risk reducing frontline services for vulnerable children, the chair of the Local Government Association's (LGA) children and young people board has warned.

Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has slashed £150m from the Early Intervention Grant to plough into attempts to increase the number of adoptions in England, children's minister Edward Timpson has confirmed.

Professionals to receive training to spot child trafficking

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Professionals working with children and young people will receive specialist training to spot and help victims of child trafficking as part of a Home Office scheme.

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils could save more than £32,000 for each troubled family they work with by providing services in a more effective way, a government report has claimed.

Scotland faces rising youth unemployment and growing health inequalities

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of unemployed under-25s in Scotland has almost doubled in the past five years, while health inequalities between children continue to grow, research has found.

Children's health services at risk despite funding increase, warn professionals

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Monday, January 14, 2013

| CYP Now

A ten per cent increase in public health funding over the next two years may still fall short of the sum needed to protect many children and young people's services at risk of closure, professionals have warned.

Pledge to retain visibility of early intervention spending is 'tiny concession'

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Friday, January 4, 2013

| CYP Now

The government's decision to compel local authorities to reveal their early intervention expenditure by publishing a funding profile has been attacked as a "meaningless exercise".

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Daily roundup: Junk food, child porn and social work ethics

Children's workforce recognised in birthday honours list

London hospital expands youth work service

Charities secure government contract to improve young people's health

Girls in gangs ‘face greater mental health risks'

Troubled families initiative misses first-year target

Unison issues manifesto for youth

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

CYP Now 2013 Awards open for entry

Deaf young people 'face exclusion from services'

Youth commission to advise on tobacco-free target

Osborne protects schools from cuts but leaves other services exposed

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

Third of professionals work with children who 'go hungry' daily

Call for employers to promote young people's health

MP backs youth work training to tackle eating disorders

Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning

Sexual health service cuts could cost taxpayers £10bn, report warns

Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'

Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform

Professionals to receive training to spot child trafficking

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

Scotland faces rising youth unemployment and growing health inequalities

Children's health services at risk despite funding increase, warn professionals

Pledge to retain visibility of early intervention spending is 'tiny concession'

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