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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.
Vetting agency must foster responsibility
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Opinion
- Monday, March 19, 2012 | CYP Now
Keeping children safe from abuse is always a highly charged topic. It is naturally the first priority of most parents. It is vital for children's services departments, since a high-profile child abuse case causes untold damage not just to the child but to the whole service.
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.
Army of childminders can help bridge the gap
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Opinion
- Monday, February 20, 2012 | CYP Now
Social mobility is thankfully all the rage these days, and the free childcare entitlement is a crucial policy to help all children get the best start in life regardless of background.
A very tall order with a short deadline
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Opinion
- Monday, February 20, 2012 | CYP Now
Across the country, newly formed local teams are embarking on a colossal exercise. In every area, local authorities have until next month to quantify how many troubled families live in each area and set out how they are going to help them turn their lives around.
Sure Start is essential for vulnerable families
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 7, 2012 | CYP Now
I have been a keen supporter of Sure Start from the start. It seemed obvious to me from what I saw in Sure Start centres that the most disadvantaged children would not only get a better start in life, but that this would have a lasting beneficial impact.
Two-year-old places are not deliverable
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 7, 2012 | CYP Now
We all know the benefits of early education. The government's desire to extend the free entitlement to more two-year-olds is therefore laudable, but I'm not sure it's currently deliverable.
Vox Pop: Is free childcare vital to the economic recovery?
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Opinion
- Monday, January 9, 2012 | CYP Now
The IPPR claims money generated by working mums would be greater than the cost of free nursery places for all
Workers must unite for children's health
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Opinion
- Monday, December 12, 2011 | CYP Now
Change is always difficult. Even when evidence for doing things differently is available.
Fog over data leaves localism unfulfilled
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Opinion
- Monday, November 28, 2011 | CYP Now
The Localism Act, which gained Royal Assent in November, is described by some as "the biggest downward transfer of power in a generation".
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.
Payment-by-results must profit families
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Opinion
- Friday, September 2, 2011 | CYP Now
We welcome in principle the government's "payment-by-results" trials for children's centres that are taking place in local authorities.
End service barriers to give families a boost
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Opinion
- Friday, August 19, 2011 | CYP Now
There have been numerous government-sponsored reviews over the past few months: Graham Allen on early intervention, Frank Field on social mobility, Dame Clare Tickell on the early years and Eileen Munro on child protection.
Private finance can intervene now, but not for generations
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Opinion
- Monday, July 11, 2011 | CYP Now
Early intervention is popular right now in theory, but in many areas is being decimated in practice.
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.
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.
Never mind the inspectorate, recruit the right inspectors
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Opinion
- Monday, April 18, 2011 | CYP Now
On the face of it, the education select committee's call to split Ofsted into two separate inspectorates for education and children's care would represent a further step away from services centred on the needs of the whole child. It is a trend played out in several areas through the disappearance of children's trust arrangements and local authority children's services departments.
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.
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