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Children with cancer need tailored support
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Opinion
- Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | CYP Now
The systems that seek to support children and young people with cancer and their families are failing them.
Time to deliver Care Review reforms
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Opinion
- Wednesday, May 22, 2024 | CYP Now
On 23 May, 2022, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care was published, a government-commissioned report into how the children’s social care system could work better for everyone involved, but especially the children in it.
Funded childcare should prioritise quality
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Opinion
- Sunday, April 28, 2024 | CYP Now
In the ever-evolving landscape of early years education, a pressing issue looms large: the 30-hour funding policy and its repercussions.
Tired remedies won’t end youth knife crime
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Opinion
- Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | CYP Now
There is no doubt that knife crime among young people is rising again, after a dip during the pandemic. In the year ending March 2023, there were 50,500 offences involving a sharp instrument, up by 73 per cent since 2015.
Banning phones will not make children safer
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Opinion
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | CYP Now
We are all aware that mobile phones with access to the internet are now used by most children and young people. However, whether children are on or offline they participate in risk-taking behaviours to experiment and to establish their self-identity especially through the adolescent years.
Charter sets out a ‘just’ offer for children
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Opinion
- Sunday, January 28, 2024 | CYP Now
In 2010, the then coalition government announced the introduction of a triple lock for our senior citizens – a commitment to uprate the state pension every year in line with whichever is highest of earnings growth, inflation, or 2.5 per cent.
We need a joined-up strategy for children
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Opinion
- Wednesday, January 3, 2024 | CYP Now
The situation facing many children in this country is at crisis point. More families are finding themselves in desperate circumstances, whether that’s due to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis or because early intervention support has been starved of resources due to cuts to children’s social care budgets and funds being diverted towards late interventions.
The cost of leaving
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Opinion
- Thursday, November 23, 2023 | CYP Now
It’s hard writing about the end of our 81-year-old charity when the job we set out to achieve is not truly done.
To tackle attendance, we must redefine it
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Opinion
- Thursday, October 19, 2023 | CYP Now
Education leaders around the country are grappling with the issue of attendance – or rather non-attendance.
Virtual schools’ expanded remit needs more cash
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Opinion
- Thursday, September 21, 2023 | CYP Now
In the post-pandemic era of hybrid working, for most people the term “virtual school” is likely to conjure up a vision of home learning online. However, the function played by virtual schools is quite different. As a statutory service within England’s local authorities, they are designed to support the educational progress of children in care.
Ensuring every child has meaningful relationships to depend on
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Opinion
- Thursday, August 24, 2023 | CYP Now
We all need people to turn to in our lives, for emotional and practical support – whether it's family, friends or wider community. These relationships, formed from early childhood, also help shape our sense of who we are.
Protect women in pre-birth care proceedings
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Opinion
- Thursday, July 20, 2023 | CYP Now
The number of newborn babies subject to care proceedings has more than doubled since 2007, and every year tens of thousands of women have involvement from children’s social care teams during pregnancy and early motherhood.
UN report highlights why children must be at heart of political agenda
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Opinion
- Sunday, June 18, 2023 | CYP Now
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child recently published a damning report on the state of children’s rights in the UK which shows how much the country is failing children.
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.
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.
We must not roll back statutory RSE
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Opinion
- Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | CYP Now
The new Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum was established in 2020 to keep students safe, after decades of campaigning.
Reforms need a cabinet-level champion
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 28, 2023 | CYP Now
The government has set out its ambition to reform children's social care, with a focus on providing vulnerable children with loving, stable homes.
It's finally time to act on what children say
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Opinion
- Thursday, January 26, 2023 | CYP Now
A Shropshire clergyman by the name of John Mirk is believed to be the person who coined the phrase “children should be seen, not heard”. That was more than 600 years ago, and yet this toxic pronouncement endured for a remarkably long time.
Autistic children must not be written off
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Opinion
- Tuesday, January 3, 2023 | CYP Now
The government has admitted that the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is not working. We've spoken to nearly 2,000 young people and parents and they've told us the same – the system is broken.