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Ask the Expert: Children's services' support for schools

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Our expert panel offers advice on children's services support.

How play teaches good relationships

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

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Performance and interactive workshops help young people explore relationships and avoid domestic violence.

DfE data shows funding shift from universal to targeted services

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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Latest local authority spending figures suggest that early intervention is being sacrificed to fund statutory services as children's departments grapple with making a dwindling pot of money stretch further.

Daily roundup: vocational education, free childcare, and social mobility

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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Lord Baker unveils career colleges plans; extra funds for Welsh free childcare scheme; and social mobility tsar fears for children's future prospects, all in the news today.

Who would want to be a DCS today?

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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Directors of children's services are under ever-increasing pressure and first in the firing line if tragedy strikes. Jo Stephenson examines what the future holds for the role and why anyone would aspire to do it.

Daily roundup: 'Daniel's law', child protection, and Teather remarks

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

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Timpson rules out mandatory reporting of child abuse; third of councils failing to address child protection weaknesses; and Tim Loughton comments on former families minister, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: child poverty, reading habits and autism support

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

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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: Outstanding schools, Teather quits, and foster carers

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Monday, September 9, 2013

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Three out of four schools now judged as good or outstanding; former children's minister to step down as MP; and foster care myths exposed, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Strike action, Universal Credit and tobacco warnings

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

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Teachers threaten walk out over pay and conditions; government's welfare reform programme criticised; and graphic tobacco warnings fail to dissuade teenage smokers, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: School truanting, disabled education, and social work training

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

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Educational welfare officers report a rise in truanting; Disability campaigners call for the government to deliver on inclusive education; and consortium of charities to provide social work training, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Child trafficking, GCSEs, and free childcare

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Monday, September 2, 2013

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Increase in number of trafficked children, pupils have to keep studying English and maths, and free childcare for deprived two-year-olds takes effect, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Wiltshire inspection, health guidance and teaching qualifications

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Friday, August 16, 2013

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Ofsted upgrades children's services in Wiltshire; Scotland's children's commissioner calls for urgent review of teachers' health guidance; and an early years professional complains over teacher training rejection, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: School uniforms, A-Levels, and court cases

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

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Charity calls for school uniforms to be ditched, the proportion of top A-Level grades is down on last year, and a minister wants more young offenders dealt with in youth courts, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Bedroom tax, DfE spending, and school safeguarding

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

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Disabled children will not be forced to share a room under the 'bedroom tax' changes, rules the High Court; Labour accuses the government of "reckless" spending at the DfE; and Ofsted admits inspection failings of troubled SEN school, in the news today.

Daily roundup: Female genital mutilation, military schools and child health

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

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A charity is to review how many women have undergone female genital mutilation, MPs call for improvements in education for military children, and the government has urged local authorities to sign a health pledge, all in the news today.

A preacher of policy

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

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Derren Hayes talks to Kathy Evans, chief executive of Children England.

Daily roundup: Pupil premium, childcare standards and youth apprenticeships

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

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The government is to raise the pupil premium among primary school reforms, a government international comparison of childcare places the UK fourth, and almost three quarters of Neet young people cannot access apprenticeships.

Spending Round intensifies the pressure on services beyond 2015

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

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Chancellor George Osborne last month outlined cuts amounting to an estimated £11.5bn for the 2015/16 Spending Round. CYP Now looks at where the axe will fall for children's services and what the implications are for the sector.

Daily roundup: sexual abuse, primary school inspections, and 16-18 education

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Friday, June 28, 2013

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Grooming and sexual abuse of children to be denounced in mosque sermons, Ofsted begins week-long inspections of Medway primary schools, and new figures show a drop in 16-18 year olds in full time education, all in the news today.