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Editorial: Discs blunder ups pressure on ContactPoint
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 27, 2007 | CYP Now
Fear can be very contagious. The "missing discs" debacle at HM Revenue & Customs has intensified security concerns about ContactPoint, the 224m database that will hold details of every child in England.
Policy into practice - Summer activities
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Opinion
- Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | CYP Now
The issue: With the summer holidays imminent, helping young people to avoid boredom and the temptation of risky behaviour is a priority for many.
After the circus, the work carries on
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Opinion
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009 | CYP Now
It was Oscar Wilde who wrote: "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness" (The Importance of Being Earnest).
Allen's intervention could be too late
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Opinion
- Monday, September 27, 2010 | CYP Now
Graham Allen's work in spearheading the independent commission on early intervention is hugely important.
Can good services remain standing?
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Opinion
- Monday, June 21, 2010 | CYP Now
Like the suffocating drone of vuvuzelas, cuts continue to dominate the atmosphere in the children's services arena and in public services more generally.
Sir Philip Green right to propose centralised approach
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Opinion
- Monday, October 25, 2010 | CYP Now
Sir Philip Green has spotted that the government is inefficient. It buys laptops and paper for wildly different and inflated prices, and manages its property portfolio appallingly. He proposes centralisation, and who could argue against that? A central agency could distribute supplies much more cheaply than every business unit buying their own.
30 hours has overshadowed vital out-of-school child care
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 6, 2016 | CYP Now
The government is struggling to fulfil its commitment to 30 hours of free early education and childcare by 2017.
Benefits of funded childcare need selling
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | CYP Now
When searching for reasons for the low take-up of funded childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds in England, debate has focused on whether providers are being adequately remunerated to create sufficient places.
Letters to the Editor: Webinar for childcare providers
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Opinion
- Friday, January 1, 2021 | CYP Now
Managing an early years and childcare setting, whether it be a home-based childminder, out of school club, a small voluntary playgroup, a nursery or a chain, a school or children’s centre, is a complex task. It is one of balancing quality, health and safety, with parents’ and children’s needs, funding and fees, and business sustainability.
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.
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