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Youth offending team to be based in £6.9m youth zone

Thursday, February 1, 2018

| CYP Now

A youth offending team will be permanently based inside a proposed state-of-the-art £6.9m youth zone in what is believed to be the first arrangement of its kind in England.

Youth services in London cut by £22m

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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

| CYP Now

Youth Services in London have had £22m axed from their budgets and lost more than a third of their staff over the last five years, it has emerged.

Hampshire plans to halve youth service spend

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Monday, December 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Hampshire County Council is consulting on plans to slash its youth services budget by almost half.

Councils redeploy youth workers to social care roles, warns report

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Monday, January 12, 2015

| CYP Now

The demise of universal youth services is resulting in youth workers taking on more social work-focused roles, according to a new report.

Local authority announces plans to cease funding 22 youth centres to save £1m

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has announced plans that could result in the closure of all 22 of its youth centres in order to make savings of £1m.

Council to cut youth service budget by more than a third??

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

| CYP Now

A London council is to cut £358,000 from its youth service budget after plans to redesign the service were given the go-ahead by councillors. ??

Major study to investigate impact of youth work launches

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Monday, February 8, 2016

| CYP Now

The value and impact youth work has on young people's lives is to be investigated in a Europe-wide study, it has been announced.

Unions urge youth workers to fight pay and condition changes

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Friday, February 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Public sector unions have urged youth workers to lobby their employers over plans to scrap the current system for setting their pay.

Entire council youth service put out to tender

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Thursday, June 23, 2016

| CYP Now

A council has launched a tendering process to find an organisation to run its entire youth service, including eight youth centres.

Youth organisations urged to overcome fears of working with businesses

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Friday, January 6, 2012

| CYP Now

Scepticism over companies' motives for working with youth groups must be overcome to successfully deliver improved services, a charity central to the government's youth policy has warned.

Education committee to consult young people through an online resource

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Friday, March 4, 2011

| CYP Now

The education committee has launched an online resource for young people to feed into its ongoing inquiry into services for young people.

Loughton blames 'big personalities' for lack of co-operation in youth sector

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's minister Tim Loughton has said charities serving children and families must improve co-ordination and stamp out duplication to strengthen the sector and improve services for children and young people.

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.

Sports funding boost for London youth clubs

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Monday, May 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Sixty London youth clubs will offer more young people sporting activities thanks to National Lottery funding.

Decline of regional youth work units 'threatens local services'

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Monday, August 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Local youth groups are becoming increasingly isolated because of reduced support from regional youth work units (RYWUs), an RYWU chief has warned.

Scouts sign up to Institute for Youth Work

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Monday, September 2, 2013

| CYP Now

The Scout Association is among a clutch of organisations to sign up to the Institute for Youth Work, allowing its staff and volunteers to join the membership body for half price.

Revised youth service guidance still too vague, sector says

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Monday, July 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Guidance on local youth provision remains too vague according to leading youth sector figures, despite revisions made following a consultation.

More young people take up work experience since Youth Contract launch

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Friday, September 14, 2012

| CYP Now

The number of work experience placements taken up by young people has increased since the government's £1bn Youth Contract was launched earlier this year.

Police commissioner candidates asked to sign youth charter

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Friday, October 12, 2012

| CYP Now

Police and crime commissioner (PCC) candidates are being asked to commit to taking young people's views into account by signing a pledge.

Charity in talks to establish 12 more youth zones

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Friday, January 19, 2018

| CYP Now

Talks are in progress over the development of up to 12 more youth zones across the country, potentially taking the total number to 26, it has emerged.

Youth select committee to stage work experience inquiry

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Monday, March 5, 2018

| CYP Now

The British Youth Council's youth select committee will explore the barriers preventing young people from accessing work experience in its next inquiry, it has been announced.

Gove ‘fails to visit any youth project' during time at DfE

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Monday, January 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Education Secretary Michael Gove has failed to visit a single youth project in his two and a half years in charge of the Department for Education, a list drawn up by civil servants has revealed.

Expert challenges youth workforce's commitment to protecting services

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Friday, April 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Youth workers must do more to promote the value of their work in the face of local government cuts, an academic has said.

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

| CYP Now

It is now one week since an independent report by Professor Alexis Jay estimated that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. CYP Now looks at what has happened since publication last Tuesday.

Youth Contract failings could leave young 'further disengaged'

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Thursday, May 3, 2012

| CYP Now

Young people not in work or training risk becoming "further disengaged" because of the way the government's Youth Contract is run, qualification awards body City & Guilds has said.

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Youth offending team to be based in £6.9m youth zone

Youth services in London cut by £22m

Hampshire plans to halve youth service spend

Councils redeploy youth workers to social care roles, warns report

Local authority announces plans to cease funding 22 youth centres to save £1m

Council to cut youth service budget by more than a third??

Major study to investigate impact of youth work launches

Unions urge youth workers to fight pay and condition changes

Entire council youth service put out to tender

Youth organisations urged to overcome fears of working with businesses

Education committee to consult young people through an online resource

Loughton blames 'big personalities' for lack of co-operation in youth sector

Deaf young people 'face exclusion from services'

Sports funding boost for London youth clubs

Decline of regional youth work units 'threatens local services'

Scouts sign up to Institute for Youth Work

Revised youth service guidance still too vague, sector says

More young people take up work experience since Youth Contract launch

Police commissioner candidates asked to sign youth charter

Charity in talks to establish 12 more youth zones

Youth select committee to stage work experience inquiry

Gove ‘fails to visit any youth project' during time at DfE

Expert challenges youth workforce's commitment to protecting services

Rotherham abuse scandal: one week on

Youth Contract failings could leave young 'further disengaged'

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