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Good Idea: Homeless youth create forum to engage MPs

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  • Tuesday, February 4, 2014
  • | CYP Now
This 100-strong forum is helping young people who are, or have experience of, being homeless raise the profile of youth homelessness by meeting ministers and MPs to explain about the problem and directly lobby for policy changes that will improve support.

Opinion: Young people can build their way out of a housing crisis

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  • Tuesday, January 7, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Sometimes innovative and important policy ideas come from the most unexpected quarters. The often reactionary planning minister Nick Boles suddenly piped up some weeks ago that plots of state-owned land should be available, via a waiting list running parallel with that for council housing, to young people for them to build houses for themselves.

The 2014 Report

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  • Tuesday, January 7, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Sector leaders look at the year ahead for children and young people.

Quiz of the Year 2013

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  • Tuesday, December 17, 2013
  • | CYP Now
How closely have you been following the ups and downs of the children and young people's sector over the past 12 months? Test your knowledge here with the CYP Now quiz of the year.

The house that Daniel built

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  • Tuesday, December 17, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Homeless young people renovate empty homes and then move in under a scheme launched by charity Centrepoint. Jo Stephenson visits the first property and meets the lads who will live there.

Fathers' group steers boys away from a life of gangs

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  • Tuesday, October 29, 2013
  • | CYP Now
When his 16-year-old son was killed in a gang-related attack in May 2009, James Gregory wanted to take positive action to support young people living in deprived areas of Manchester to steer clear of crime.

Who would want to be a DCS today?

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  • Tuesday, October 15, 2013
  • | CYP Now
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.

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