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Daily roundup: Loughton warning, youth premium and asylum tragedy

Monday, October 8, 2012

| CYP Now

Government warned on family policy, proposals for youth premium, and concerns over "flawed" support system for asylum seekers, all in the news roundup today.

Daily roundup: The Technical Baccalaureate, food banks and school sports for disabled children

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

| CYP Now

Miliband pledges help for "forgotten" young people, fears over disabled children missing out on school sports, and record numbers of Welsh families receive help from food banks, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Pupils 'go hungry', whooping cough and missing children

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Friday, September 28, 2012

| CYP Now

Teachers warn that pupils are suffering the impact of recession, pregnant women to be given the whooping cough jab, and an online campaign to find missing children, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: The dawn of EBacc, Scottish play and a TV campaign for East Anglian children

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

| CYP Now

Details of the biggest exams overhaul in a generation, Scottish MPs urged to enshrine the right to play in law, and a TV campaign highlighting issues affecting children in East Anglia, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Universal credit, library closures and junk food

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Monday, September 10, 2012

| CYP Now

A charity warns Universal Credit will leave poor families out of pocket, the Children's Laureate condemns library closures and an investigation into "junk food" on sale in academy schools, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Funding for toddlers, police commissioners and shoplifting children

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

| CYP Now

Barnardo's warning over support for deprived three- and four-year-olds, a report reveals lack of awareness on police elections, and children steal food to feed their families, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Behaviour in schools, child protection guidance, and the cost of childhood

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Research reveals concerns over classroom behaviour, the College of Social Work on safeguarding guidance, and the spiralling cost of raising a child, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Pupil premium plus, inequality in schools and retirement for the chief executive of the YJB

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Monday, September 3, 2012

| CYP Now

A call for more education funding for children in care, concerns over school provision for ethnic minority pupils, and the chief executive of the Youth Justice Board announces his intention to retire, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Playing fields, High Court ruling on social workers and Northamptonshire children in care

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Friday, August 17, 2012

| CYP Now

A government apology over inaccurate school playing fields figures, social workers breach mum and baby's rights, and children missing from care in Northamptonshire, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Shannon Matthews court order, Olympic auction and Ofsted in South Yorkshire

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Monday, August 13, 2012

| CYP Now

Details of an injunction on the Shannon Matthews serious case review, Olympic mascots to go under the hammer for children, and child protection in Barnsley and Rotherham, all make the news today.

Daily roundup: Further education cuts, tax credits and drugs statistics

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Course closures and falling rolls in colleges, the link between welfare cuts and the economic crisis and drug use among school pupils, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Wake-up calls for Neets, Labour on private schools and the Manchester riots

Other

Friday, July 20, 2012

| CYP Now

Youth Contract support for 16- and 17-year-olds, the shadow children's minister's views on private schools and a call to review stop and search in Manchester, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Votes at 16, governors to monitor teacher performance and young people's 'dangerous' diet habits

Other

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

| CYP Now

Calls to lower the voting age, proposals to use governors to monitor teacher performance and concerns over the diets of young people in deprived areas, all make the news today.

Young people can escape the ghost towns

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

| CYP Now

How innovative parents beat poverty

Other

Monday, June 25, 2012

| CYP Now

Child poverty scars worn by economy and society

Other

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

| CYP Now

Unicef: shield young from deficit reduction

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| CYP Now

UK shows an improvement in Unicef's latest report, which monitors and compares how economically advanced countries treat children

Families hit by benefit caps could spark ‘tidal wave of migration'

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Monday, May 14, 2012

| CYP Now

The effects of the government's cap on benefits are beginning to be felt by families across the capital, as local authorities try to tackle the gulf between reduced local housing allowance rates and London rents

Renew efforts to stamp out child poverty

Other

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

| CYP Now

Just over two years ago, the previous government took the welcome and highly ambitious step of making the eradication of child poverty a legal requirement by 2020.

Hilton in the Community

Other

Monday, April 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Grants for organisations that support disadvantaged young people up to the age of 25

Welfare reforms will make children's lives worse

Other

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| CYP Now

I published a joint statement last week with my fellow children's commissioners across the UK about an issue that has kept many people across the children's sector both busy, and awake at night: the Welfare Reform Bill.

Government seeks views on childcare funding for two-year-olds

Other

Friday, November 11, 2011

| CYP Now

Local authorities are to receive 223m in the next financial year to fund free places for up to 140,000 disadvantaged two-year-olds, rising to 380m in 2014/15.

Data Check: Children registered for free school meals

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Friday, August 19, 2011

| CYP Now

Latest figures from the Department for Education reveal that London topped the table for the highest percentage of pupils registered for free school meals at the time of the School Census in January 2011.

Changes to legislation could plunge more children and young people into poverty

Other

Friday, May 27, 2011

| CYP Now

Controversial amendments to government legislation going through parliament will plunge more children into deprivation by weakening the Child Poverty Act, experts have warned.

Critics slam poverty strategy for breach of law

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Friday, April 15, 2011

| CYP Now

Campaigners are threatening to take legal action after claims that the government's child poverty strategy has breached the law and lacks significant targets.

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Daily roundup: Loughton warning, youth premium and asylum tragedy

Daily roundup: The Technical Baccalaureate, food banks and school sports for disabled children

Daily roundup: Pupils 'go hungry', whooping cough and missing children

Daily roundup: The dawn of EBacc, Scottish play and a TV campaign for East Anglian children

Daily roundup: Universal credit, library closures and junk food

Daily roundup: Funding for toddlers, police commissioners and shoplifting children

Daily roundup: Behaviour in schools, child protection guidance, and the cost of childhood

Daily roundup: Pupil premium plus, inequality in schools and retirement for the chief executive of the YJB

Daily roundup: Playing fields, High Court ruling on social workers and Northamptonshire children in care

Daily roundup: Shannon Matthews court order, Olympic auction and Ofsted in South Yorkshire

Daily roundup: Further education cuts, tax credits and drugs statistics

Daily roundup: Wake-up calls for Neets, Labour on private schools and the Manchester riots

Daily roundup: Votes at 16, governors to monitor teacher performance and young people's 'dangerous' diet habits

Young people can escape the ghost towns

How innovative parents beat poverty

Child poverty scars worn by economy and society

Unicef: shield young from deficit reduction

Families hit by benefit caps could spark ‘tidal wave of migration'

Renew efforts to stamp out child poverty

Hilton in the Community

Welfare reforms will make children's lives worse

Government seeks views on childcare funding for two-year-olds

Data Check: Children registered for free school meals

Changes to legislation could plunge more children and young people into poverty

Critics slam poverty strategy for breach of law

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