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Lightweight guidance puts children's interests at risk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 3, 2012
  • | CYP Now
This government's appetite for reducing regulation, prescription and bureaucracy in services for children is well known. Its desire is, to some degree, understandable. Labour in government did over-prescribe, it did over-regulate and it did micro-manage.

Army of childminders can help bridge the gap

    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.

Can social investment really change the world?

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 6, 2012
  • | CYP Now
"There are few moments like this when something happens that can really change the world". That was the proclamation of Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude last summer as plans gathered pace to develop the UK market for social investment. Was he going a bit over the top? Perhaps; but only perhaps.

Government must keep pace with the baby boom

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 23, 2012
  • | CYP Now
While we soldier on through this age of austerity, more and more little people are appearing. England's birth rate has been creeping up for some years now and the Office for National Statistics projects that it will continue to do so for some time.

Guidance is vital to turn youth policy into action

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 9, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Nine months after its conception last March, the government's youth policy arrived into this world six days before Christmas, not exactly kicking and screaming and without much fanfare. Positive for Youth was born after what seemed an interminable but thoroughgoing consultation with the youth sector and young people alike.

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