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Training boost for play sector

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  • Monday, January 18, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The sector skills council for playwork will create a network of high-quality training providers in an effort to increase the number of qualified workers in the sector.

Father friendly policy is skin-deep

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  • Monday, February 1, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners has described the father-friendly policies in the government's families green paper as "window dressing", based on values rather than proven outcomes for children.

Guidelines for Sure Start design

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  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has released a step-by-step guide to designing Sure Start children's centres that are "inspiring, welcoming, accessible, sustainable and able to respond to changing needs".

Longvernal Nursery School

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  • Friday, March 12, 2010
    • | CYP Now
What is it? Longvernal is keeping children active as part of its commitment to Healthy Early Years, Bath council's scheme to promote healthy eating and exercise for under-fives.

Councils told not to weaken Sure Start

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  • Monday, October 31, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Early years experts have issued a warning against weakening the impact of Sure Start children's centres as local authorities reconfigure services and explore new models of provision to target more vulnerable families.

Fiveways Play Centre, Brighton

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  • Friday, March 19, 2010
    • | CYP Now
What's happening? Children and members of the community are helping Brighton & Hove Council to build an environmentally friendly Sure Start children's centre.

Staff skills vital to disabled access

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  • Tuesday, April 29, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Extended schools and children's centres should develop a welcoming attitude and spend more on staff training to make sure services cater for disabled children, new guidance suggests.

Restraint training needed for entire workforce

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  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The whole of the children's workforce would benefit from basic training on the law relating to the use of restraint, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Analysis: Health - Breastfeeding care faces neglect

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  • Tuesday, September 11, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Despite proven health benefits for mothers and babies, many hospitals in England are failing in their duty to promote good practice on breastfeeding. Nancy Rowntree reports on why so few maternity units are implementing baby-friendly policies.

Funding foundations feel the squeeze

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  • Tuesday, April 28, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Many children's and youth organisations rely heavily on charitable foundations to help fund their work. As the recession takes hold, Mathew Little investigates to what extent this financial support will be cut back.

Madresfield Early Years Centre, Malvern, Worcestershire.

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  • Tuesday, May 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
What is a forest leader? Someone who has achieved the Forest School Practitioners Award - a level 3 qualification accredited through the Open College Network. It gives practitioners the skills to take children out into the woodland and learn from the outdoor environment.

Education sector fears lack of cash

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  • Tuesday, September 18, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Close to half of education and early years workers are worried that a lack of money will jeopardise the work of children's centres and extended schools.

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