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Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.
Early intervention is being suffocated by austerity
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Opinion
- Friday, July 8, 2011 | CYP Now
For more than a few years it has been blindingly obvious to all of us working in children's services that early intervention and prevention has to be the best way of improving children's lives.
Councils and charities on frontline of virus fight
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Opinion
- Tuesday, March 31, 2020 | CYP Now
Derren Hayes editor, Children & Young People Nowderren.hayes@markallengroup.com
Queen’s Speech failed most vulnerable families
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Opinion
- Wednesday, June 1, 2022 | CYP Now
Children and young people in the UK are growing up in some of the hardest times in recent history, where inflation rates are at a 40-year high and the cost of living crisis is hitting every household. Low-income families, who were already struggling, are faring the worst.
Workforce shortage is threat to care reforms
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Opinion
- Thursday, February 23, 2023 | CYP Now
The government's Care Review response, Stable Homes, Built on Love, sets ambitious targets for improving children's outcomes, testing new approaches to early help, and boosting professional standards in child protection work.
Better assessments key to the right support
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Opinion
- Thursday, May 25, 2023 | CYP Now
The care system should support children and young people to secure permanence without delay when they can’t live safely with their birth families.
Make schools part of wider support system
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Opinion
- Thursday, June 22, 2023 | CYP Now
You can understand if school leaders feel a little put upon. Not content with being tasked to prepare the next generation for the challenges of a rapidly changing world, policymakers are increasingly turning to schools to solve some of society's wider problems.
Early intervention transcends early years
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Opinion
- Monday, June 13, 2011 | CYP Now
The national focus on early intervention has put a spotlight on the early years. But with many conflating the two ideas, we run the risk of neglecting the need to develop a preventative mindset in our work with school-age children.
Build communities to tackle knife crime
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Opinion
- Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | CYP Now
Over the past few weeks YMCA has been approached by a number of different media outlets asking the same question: Is the rise in knife crime among young people due to youth service cuts?
Shared service savings must not be at children's expense
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Opinion
- Monday, October 17, 2011 | CYP Now
Management of children's services will increasingly be a shared undertaking between local authorities that are striving to make savings, if a survey of council decision-makers is anything to go by.
Cut budgets for families who need them least
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Opinion
- Friday, August 5, 2011 | CYP Now
When I moved to Dudley, I found it was a borough with areas of affluence but also of great deprivation.
PM's pet project overlooks the need for skilled professionals
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Opinion
- Monday, September 5, 2011 | CYP Now
When it comes to the causes, Emma Harrison's Working Families Everywhere programme has become Prime Minister David Cameron's post-riot response of choice.
New Prime Minister’s key priorities for children
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Opinion
- Tuesday, August 30, 2022 | CYP Now
Children’s happiness was already at a deeply worrying 10-year low when lockdown hit, according to our Good Childhood research, isolating them from friends, family and vital support. Now, families face another major shock as soaring inflation looks set to plunge more households and children into poverty. Yes, we are facing a cost-of-living crisis – but we are also facing a crisis in our children’s wellbeing.
Solutions lie in truly listening to children’s views
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 25, 2022 | CYP Now
Gathering and considering the wishes and feelings of a child or young person, their parents and wider family before any serious decision is taken about them is commonplace in children’s services teams and a feature of much outstanding direct work with children.
ECM might be dead in name but its substance endures
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Opinion
- Monday, March 21, 2011 | CYP Now
The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda has been something of a taboo for the past 10 months.
Invite young people to the table - they won't bite
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Opinion
- Monday, December 12, 2011 | CYP Now
As I prepare to consult on the Office of the Children's Commissioner's 2012-13 business plan, I'm back from a weekend with the people I consulted first: my children and young people's advisory board, "Amplify".
Will new ministers have any new ideas?
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Opinion
- Tuesday, January 30, 2018 | CYP Now
It is still too early to offer any well-informed predictions of what to expect from new Education Secretary Damian Hinds and his ministers at the Department for Education.
Help parents tackle risks of radicalisation
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Opinion
- Thursday, April 20, 2023 | CYP Now
Parents have a vital role to play in efforts to tackle radicalisation and extremism among young people being both a source of advice in navigating online risks and an early warning system when problems arise.
Keep up the pressure for all children across society
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Opinion
- Thursday, August 24, 2023 | CYP Now
The past few years have been difficult for our young people, and as they deal with the impact of the pandemic, they face even greater challenges.
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