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Opinion - Trauma understanding key to recovery
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Opinion
- Wednesday, May 27, 2020 | CYP Now
Merle Davies is director of the Blackpool Centre for Early Child Development
There's no evidence for childcare ratios change
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Opinion
- Monday, March 27, 2023 | CYP Now
A decade on from its initial failed attempt, the Conservative government has finally decided to push ahead with plans to increase the number of two-year-olds a childcare practitioner can look after.
Sure Start is worth shouting about
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Opinion
- Monday, February 8, 2010 | CYP Now
The post-war Labour government bequeathed us the NHS. Under New Labour, the creation of Sure Start children's centres is the one public service programme to stand any resemblance to that achievement.
Editorial: Childcare proposals have political importance
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | CYP Now
The think-tank Policy Exchange has proposed a bold alternative to childcare funding for under-threes this week, signalling a clear challenge to the present system. As revealed by CYP Now last week, and followed up in this edition (p13), the Little Britons report calls for the creation of a universal Parental Care Allowance (PCA) of 50 to 60 a week per child. It would be financed through the abolitions of the childcare element of the working tax credit, electronic vouchers for childcare payments and the Sure Start Maternity Grant.
Opinion: We must not lose sight of Sure Start's aim
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | CYP Now
There has been much debate in recent weeks about the effectiveness of the government's Sure Start children's centre programme.
Editorial: 2020 workforce vision is a bit fuzzy
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | CYP Now
A turbulent year for the sector culminated this week with the publication of the long-anticipated 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy.
Vox Pop: Should pre-school children be formally assessed?
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Opinion
- Monday, October 4, 2010 | CYP Now
Dame Clare Tickell has asked for comments on how young children should be assessed as part of her early years review
Religious tolerance begins with understanding
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | CYP Now
Children in the UK are growing up surrounded by a breadth of ethnic communities and cultural diversity not seen by previous generations.
Fast-tracked cuts to frontline services will create chaos
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Opinion
- Monday, January 24, 2011 | CYP Now
It is now official: councils are being forced to cut fast and cut deep into frontline services for families, children and young people.
Baton passes to local councillors
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Opinion
- Monday, October 25, 2010 | CYP Now
Its significance takes on epic proportions but the four-year comprehensive spending review was not, in the event, Armageddon.
Help small charities prove their worth
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Opinion
- Monday, November 29, 2010 | CYP Now
The Teens and Toddlers programme featured this week has managed to build up a solid evidence base of its effectiveness in helping young people, giving it the opportunity to expand across the UK.
Gove gives joint working a rude jolt
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 6, 2010 | CYP Now
Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.
Opinion: Who carries the can when things go wrong in childsafeguarding?
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Opinion
- Monday, May 12, 2014 | CYP Now
What did you think last month when you heard that the Prime Minister of South Korea had offered his resignation in the wake of the
ferry disaster? I don't suppose anybody thought that the PM had been at the helm of the ship that sunk, or that he could personally be held to blame for any lapses in the training of supervision of the ferry. But
the culture in South Korea expects that those in highest authority carry responsibility for anything that goes wrong.
Families need health visitor growth plan to get on track
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Opinion
- Monday, October 3, 2011 | CYP Now
Health visiting occupies a privileged position in these times. Unusually for this government, it is a profession with a national strategy driven from the centre.
Workforce development must survive break-up
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Opinion
- Monday, March 19, 2012 | CYP Now
The lights are about to go out on the Children's Workforce Development Council, with its functions hived off to a number of separate agencies.
Streamline funding to stem childcare crisis
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | CYP Now
Childcare in this country is without any doubt in crisis. We have a lack of quality places, insufficient funding for delivering free places and care that is simply unaffordable.
Invest in early years to level-up attainment
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 29, 2021 | CYP Now
After a period of the attainment gap narrowing – both at the start and end of school – latest analysis shows progress had stalled even before the pandemic.
Invest in childcare to tackle poverty gap
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Opinion
- Monday, June 28, 2021 | CYP Now
The first five years of a child’s life are the most crucial in shaping their development.
How childcare can survive recession
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | CYP Now
The huge expansion in childcare over the past decade is one of this government's most visible achievements. Latest estimates suggest that 2.8 million families use childcare. We are now a childcare nation.
Sector must influence the coalition
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Opinion
- Monday, May 17, 2010 | CYP Now
They say that a week is a long time in politics. Quite. As predicted in these pages for many months, the new Tory Secretary of State Michael Gove has renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as the Department for Education.
Affordable, flexible childcare plan would be a vote winner
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Opinion
- Monday, July 7, 2014 | CYP Now
There is a problem with childcare being so much in the public spotlight. People either become immune to the argument - a kind of
"childcare fatigue" - or talk about it so much that we are lulled into a false sense of security that universal childcare is a reality or soon
will be.
The importance of dads in the early years
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Opinion
- Monday, July 29, 2019 | CYP Now
During Mental Health Week, the Movember Foundation published its survey on new dads and there was some striking similarities with findings from a consultation we did with men in Blackpool about their experiences of being a new dad.
Letters to the Editor: Tackling foster carer shortage
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 26, 2021 | CYP Now
I read Michael Savage’s article on the foster carer crisis with interest.
Ratios change not the solution to crisis in childcare
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | CYP Now
In July 2021, I wrote about the challenges facing early years education, and issued a plea to the government to supercharge a system that is creaking when it should be thriving. One year on, what is the state of the sector?
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