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News Insight: Scholarly Gove to wage war on bureaucracy

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

| CYP Now

With the general election campaign about to get under way, Ravi Chandiramani caught up with Michael Gove, the man who hopes to take control of children and young people's services under a future Conservative government.

Tories to abolish children's trust obligations if they win election

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

| CYP Now

The Conservatives will repeal legislation to remove the obligation for local areas to set up children's trusts and publish children and young people's plans if they win the election, CYP Now can reveal.

Cash boost for youth sector training

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

| CYP Now

The young people's workforce is set to benefit from a 3.3m investment in training and development.

The Children & Young People Now Awards 2010: A celebration of the best

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Friday, March 19, 2010

| CYP Now

The Children & Young People Now Awards are the most important awards around -- pure and simple. Whether it is work with children in their early years or adolescence, to keep them safe or to help them to achieve, these awards are about the future of our society.

News Insight: Commissioner Maggie speaks out

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Monday, March 15, 2010

| CYP Now

Newly installed children's commissioner for England Maggie Atkinson is anticipating big changes.

Lack of job security risks driving away good staff

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Monday, February 8, 2010

| CYP Now

The children and young people's sector stands at risk of losing many talented staff to alternative careers amid heightened fears over job security, a CYP Now survey has revealed.

Joint working - Recession fallout takes its toll on workforce morale

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Monday, February 8, 2010

| CYP Now

A CYP Now survey has revealed that staff in the children and young people's sector fear for their jobs in the wake of the recession, with many expressing further concerns about the future for the services they provide. Neil Puffett investigates.

Joint working - Total Place bids to do more with less

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Monday, February 1, 2010

| CYP Now

Councils can yield big savings by adopting a joined-up approach to public spending, dubbed Total Place. Lauren Higgs reports.

Joint Working: The trouble with inspections

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Monday, February 1, 2010

| CYP Now

Comprehensive Area Assessments were introduced to ease the burden of inspections on local authorities. Here, four figureheads weigh up the successes and failures of the new framework.

Integrated working is threatening to dilute specialist expertise, warns report

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Monday, January 25, 2010

| CYP Now

Specialist professionals working with children face being marginalised in modern-day children's services departments, a report by the Children's Services Professional Network has found.

Cut back council targets, says LGA

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Monday, January 18, 2010

| CYP Now

The Local Government Association wants a drastic reduction in the number of national indicators.

MP says vetting changes needed

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Monday, January 11, 2010

| CYP Now

Further changes need to be made to the vetting and barring scheme to ensure those working with children are not adversely affected, a Labour MP has said.

Joint working - Minister-in-waiting gets ready for battle

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Monday, January 11, 2010

| CYP Now

With the Conservatives favourites to triumph in the coming general election, the children's and youth sector better get prepared. Ravi Chandiramani finds out what changes shadow children's minister Tim Loughton has in mind.

The 2010 Report: The year ahead for children and young people

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

| CYP Now

The coming year presents exceptional challenges for anyone who works with children, young people or families. Services will feel the pinch of the recession. And the general election will focus minds on what kind of society we want to build for tomorrow's generation, and how. CYP Now's 2010 Report aims to tackle the challenges head-on through a range of experts. They outline the issues and advance a case for what must happen in policy and practice.