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Health visitor pledge welcomed

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  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Unions have welcomed Health Secretary Alan Johnson's announcement at the recent Labour Party conference that more health visitors and midwives are on the cards.

Councillors lack frontline insight

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  • Tuesday, September 29, 2009
    • | CYP Now
There is a "huge lack of awareness" of issues in the children's sector among local authority lead members, the shadow children's minister has claimed.

Speech scheme given go-ahead

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  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The government's new communications champion has helped devise a programme to improve speech and language skills among school-aged children.

Joint working: Your guide to surviving a media crisis

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  • Tuesday, October 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Tragedies such as the Baby P case rarely occur, but when they do they place a huge strain on children's services. Jenny Cornish finds out what steps local authorities should take if they find themselves in the midst of a media storm.

In Practice: Know How - Music

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  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Music is a critical part of a child's development. Singing a song exercises more parts of the brain than any other activity, and the act of singing can help a child's physical, behavioural, social, educational and cognitive development. And the great thing about music is that children experience it all the time.

Strategy gives workforce boost

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  • Tuesday, December 9, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The government will today (Thursday 11 December) unveil a new partnership body designed to represent the entire children and young people's sector as part of the 2020 workforce strategy.

In Practice: Ask the Experts

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  • Tuesday, February 3, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I hear the government wants youth centres to open on Friday and Saturday evenings. How do I persuade the staff to give up their precious weekends?

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.

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