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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.