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Help families in poverty trap
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- Tuesday, November 26, 2019 | CYP Now
The steady rise in child poverty in recent years is a national disgrace, and should be a code-red priority for political parties of every hue.
Government's toxic approach to education is beyond satire
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- Tuesday, May 10, 2016 | CYP Now
Every now and then, I think about writing a satirical column on education, but before I get round to it, the world has proved that my most extreme ideas are too tame.
Legal help for migrant children
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- Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | CYP Now
Initiative reduces destitution among migrant children.
Councils develop new approaches to early help amid funding challenges
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- Monday, October 12, 2015 | CYP Now
Children's services leaders gathered at CYP Now's Early Help Conference to discuss latest policy developments in early help and hear how local areas are developing interventions across a range of settings and age groups.
Legal Update: Caring for refugee children
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- Monday, September 28, 2015 | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the UK government's response to the refugee crisis and foster care provision for refugee children.
Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight
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- Monday, September 28, 2015 | CYP Now
Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is
he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?
Buttle UK - small grants programme
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- Monday, September 14, 2015 | CYP Now
Buttle UK has been helping children and young people across the UK since 1953. Its small grants programme funds essential items such as beds, fridges and cookers for individuals and families who are in significant need.
Divisive cuts and reforms must be countered with radical collaboration
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- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 | CYP Now
As the election dust settles, I have found myself thinking about physics even more than I have about policy. Specifically, I have been thinking about Newton's Third Law - "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" - and how it might inform strategies for action from the children's voluntary sector over the coming years.
In Focus: Family support
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- Tuesday, February 17, 2015 | CYP Now
All the research shows that it is never too early to transform a child's life chances. The school readiness gap between disadvantaged children and their peers can be as wide as 19 months on their first day of school and once children have fallen behind, their chances of catching up are slim.
Cut food waste and support food banks to tackle poverty
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- Tuesday, January 6, 2015 | CYP Now
All the seasonal festivities are now behind us. The Christmas period inevitably saw countless turkeys ordered while the supermarket shelves groaned, ready for the last few days of manic stocking-up.
2015 is the year to make Britain great for children and families
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- Tuesday, January 6, 2015 | CYP Now
New Year is meant to be a time of hope and excitement. For those families who have had a tough time making it through the last year, however, there is little cause for celebration.
Daily roundup: School attainment, secure estate and family centres
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- Wednesday, September 24, 2014 | CYP Now
Child's success at school linked to father's achievement; secure training centre gets glowing inspection report; and Ofsted releases new inspection details for residential family centres, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Youth justice, child poverty and physical education
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- Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | CYP Now
Khan to outline Labour youth custody plans; child poverty rises over past year; and more primary teachers to be trained in delivering PE, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Children's commissioner, voodoo and bullying
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- Friday, June 20, 2014 | CYP Now
Review into Welsh children's commissioner role begins; United Nations' report warns of children being trafficked for witchcraft rituals; and children with special needs more likely to be bullied, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Vocational training, health and parenting
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- Wednesday, June 18, 2014 | CYP Now
New practical qualifications for school children introduced next year; huge rise in Crohn's disease hospital admissions of young people; and parents warned not to give children alcohol at end of exams, all in the news today.
Seeking the way out of child poverty
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- Monday, April 28, 2014 | CYP Now
Despite government promises to eliminate child poverty, figures show it is on the rise. Charlotte Goddard examines some of the key proposals for tackling poverty and explores what is working on the ground.
Daily roundup: Out-of-work benefits, school preparedness, and legal system
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- Monday, April 28, 2014 | CYP Now
New sanctions introduced for long-term unemployed; schoolchildren still wearing nappies study finds; and children to give evidence away from court through pilot study, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Child poverty, early years, and holiday costs
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- Monday, February 24, 2014 | CYP Now
Government set to unveil child poverty strategy; early years experts call on government to reverse cuts; and ministers to debate cost of holidays during school breaks, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Substance misuse, social housing, and looked-after children
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- Wednesday, February 12, 2014 | CYP Now
Deaths linked to legal highs on the up; bedroom tax leaving tenants behind on rent; and Cafcass data shows large fall in care applications in January, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Benefits cap, female genital mutilation, and smoking in cars
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- Friday, February 7, 2014 | CYP Now
Latest figures on households affected by the benefits cap published; government makes FGM declaration, and health experts call on politicians to ban smoking in cars, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Child poverty, child protection and troubled families
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- Monday, December 9, 2013 | CYP Now
Child poverty at lowest level for a generation, study finds; five-year-old taken into care for being overweight; and "turned around" troubled families in Sunderland don't get jobs, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Judge criticises social workers, female offenders, and home tuition
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- Friday, October 25, 2013 | CYP Now
Social workers told to obey court orders, women prisoners to be kept closer to families, and funding cut for tuition of looked-after children, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: child poverty, reading habits and autism support
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- Thursday, September 12, 2013 | CYP Now
Child poverty could rise by 800,000 by 2020 warn Oxfam; reading for pleasure link to child academic achievement; and teachers struggle to access autism support, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Troubled families, sexual exploitation, and childhood obesity
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- Tuesday, September 10, 2013 | CYP Now
14,000 families turned around in government scheme; authorities failing sexually exploited Asian girls; and health visitors "worry about offending parents", all in the news today.
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