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There's no evidence for childcare ratios change

    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.

Corporate providers must be held to account

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 28, 2021
    • | CYP Now
The moving of children from Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre should be a stark warning that we have systematically failed to protect the most vulnerable from abuse, failed to hold those in authority to account and failed to mend a broken system.

Today’s big challenges need collective efforts

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
    • | CYP Now
We start 2022 with a feeling of déjà vu. The emergence of the Omicron variant has derailed the fragile recovery from the pandemic and once again raised the possibility of children’s education being disrupted by school closures and Covid isolation.

Adoption system failings harm children’s life chances

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 26, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The adoption system in England is not working for children. There is overwhelming evidence that adoption is an excellent permanence option for children who had the toughest of starts in life. Yet, despite record numbers of looked-after children, only 2,870 adoptions were made in 2020/21 compared with 5,360 in 2015.

Asylum reforms are a gamble with young lives

    Opinion
  • Thursday, May 25, 2023
    • | CYP Now
At The Children's Society, we’re not just advocates. We’re a shield, a beacon, and a voice for children and young people needing safety and protection. That's why the government's asylum proposals are furiously ringing our alarm bells.

Protect women in pre-birth care proceedings

    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.

Six reasons to support, not condemn, young people

    Opinion
  • Thursday, October 19, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The number of young people killed this year has already surpassed the total for the whole of 2022. When lives are taken in such a way, it becomes easy to vilify or hang the blame somewhere in the search of answers.

Sure Start is worth shouting about

    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.

Family help will work for generations

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 1, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Our main feature this week focuses on how Family Intervention Projects (FIPs) are turning many lives around. FIPs are in vogue. The Prime Minister pledged to extend them to 50,000 of the most chaotic families last autumn. And there is a rich seam of evidence now emerging that FIPs work. The latest evaluations suggest that two-thirds of families are no longer involved in antisocial behaviour as a result.

Family involvement helps bring reading to life

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Literacy is core to the curriculum and we all know the ability to read and write is an essential part of life. But, according to the National Literacy Trust, one in five people in the UK struggle with these skills.

Editorial: Childcare proposals have political importance

    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.

Should we train for life or for Tesco?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
First we had the concept of McJobs and now we have the possibility of Tescolifications. The Most Admired Business Leader of 2005, the chief executive of Tesco Sir Terry Leahy has waded into the contemporary education debate.

Children in care need to be heard

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 3, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Young people from the UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) debated in the House of Commons chamber last Friday, the first body of people other than MPs to occupy the green benches.

Cannabis row leaves us all in a blur

    Opinion
  • Friday, November 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Back at the end of October, Professor David Nutt, chair of the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), was sacked after criticising policy on cannabis classification.

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