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Low interest rates hurt charity funds

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  • Monday, June 7, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Thousands of vulnerable families will miss out on grants that could help them through crises, as charities struggle to build up funds under record low interest rates, it has been claimed.

Government leaves children's chiefs to decide 'savage' cuts

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  • Monday, June 14, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Children's services leaders have been left to agonise over where the axe should fall after the Department for Education (DfE) confirmed councils must decide how to distribute the 311m cuts to the overall area-based grant, leaving school support and Connexions services at risk.

Joint Working: Lessons from total place

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  • Friday, June 18, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The Total Place initiative aims to combine efficiency with effectiveness through a "whole-area approach" to public services. Tom de Castella looks at the focus of Total Place in five areas, and the scale of the savings anticipated.

Bill signals promising times for children's wellbeing

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  • Tuesday, April 1, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Children need our special care and protection, and a central focus of my role is ensuring that legislation, policy and practice recognises this. The National Assembly for Wales voted in favour of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill in March, and is now awaiting royal assent. It aims to facilitate the implementation of the Welsh government's social services policies and to consolidate and clarify social care law in Wales within a specifically Welsh legal framework.

Quiz of the year 2015

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  • Tuesday, December 8, 2015
  • | CYP Now
An election result that defied pollsters, turmoil in children's charity funding and plummeting adoption figures - 2015 was a turbulent year. Test your knowledge of the past 12 months' events in children's services by taking the CYP Now quiz!

Joint working: ContactPoint - The verdict so far

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  • Tuesday, October 6, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The Conservatives have vowed to scrap ContactPoint if they win the next election, and concerns have been raised about information security. But what do some of the local authorities using the controversial database think? Nancy Rowntree finds out.

Marketing ban sparks charity concern

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  • Monday, August 9, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Concerns have been raised that government-imposed restrictions on charities marketing their activities will undermine work with children and young people.

CYP Now ready for relaunch

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  • Monday, December 6, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Children & Young People Now is to relaunch in the new year with a fresh look and more in-depth coverage of developments across the sector.

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