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Children's centres and youth sector hit, but care services escape cuts

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authorities focus on preserving child protection and looked-after children budgets at the expense of Sure Start children's centres, services for young people and youth justice work, statistics on council spending reveal

Education for offenders has to make the grade

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

| CYP Now

The government's desire to put education at the centre of youth custody and tackle the stubbornly high reoffending rates - still in excess of 70 per cent - is, on the face of it, welcome.

Daily roundup: 'Conflicts of interest' at the DfE; child poverty measurements, and safeguarding in Medway

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Friday, February 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Fresh warnings over potential conflicts of interest at the Department for Education, experts criticise proposals for a new child poverty measure, and Ofsted rates Medway's child protection services 'inadequate', all in the news today.

Daily roundup: PE in schools; an anti-abuse campaign, and Camden's plan to relocate families

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted warning over poor PE in schools, an anti-abuse campaign from the Home Office and MTV, and Camden council proposals to relocate poor families outside of the borough, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Social mobility, hospital admissions, and personal budgets

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

| CYP Now

UK schools falter in fairness league tables, study finds more children were admitted to hospital in 2010 than a decade ago, and guidance on using personal budgets, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: School privatisation, road safety, and how to spend the pupil premium

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Monday, February 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Leaked Department for Education documents reveal plans to privatise academies, road safety advertising falls victim to cuts, and an Ofsted report on the pupil premium, all in the news today.

Funding Watch: The North Face Explore Fund

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

| CYP Now

The Explore Fund is a Europe-wide grant provided by outdoor clothing brand The North Face.

Daily roundup: Online abuse, early intervention, and social investment bonds

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

| CYP Now

A call for e-safety lessons to be introduced, the Early Intervention Foundation gets off the ground, and a social investment bond scheme opens to public investors, all in the news today.

Skills for the Job: Working with deaf children

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

| CYP Now

With the right support and encouragement, deaf children and young people can go on to achieve anything their hearing friends can

Central intelligence

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Multi-agency safeguarding hubs bring together different professionals to share intelligence about children at risk. As they spring up nationwide, Joe Lepper examines what impact they are having

Daily roundup: Twitter, online grooming, and identity theft from dead children

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Monday, February 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Claims that senior Department for Education officials are using Twitter to launch political attacks, paedophiles found to be grooming young people for online abuse, and an investigation into Met Police stealing dead children's identities, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: HPV, hospital data sharing, and whistleblowing row in Kingston

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Friday, February 1, 2013

| CYP Now

Call for the HPV vaccine to be given to boys, hospitals fail to share data on gun and knife crime, and Kingston's former director of children's services under fire over 'cover-up' allegations, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Improving maternity units, failing schools, and teenage alcohol abuse

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Government unveils £25m to improve maternity services, figures show 170,000 pupils attend "failing" schools, and calls for "psychological interventions" in schools to tackle teenage alcohol abuse, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Boost for Birmingham's unemployed, A-level reform, and EBacc

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Jobless young people in Birmingham given cash boost as official figures show rising youth unemployment, Michael Gove unveils A-level reforms, and research shows the EBacc is reducing pupils' subject choices, all in the news today.

DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department's former ministers.

Do we need more men?

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Women outnumber men across the children's workforce, particularly in work with young children. Charlotte Goddard investigates whether it matters and what employers could do to redress the balance

Councils aim to share burden of reform

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

A Children's Improvement Board scheme is allowing councils to learn from each other's experiences

Labour plots vision for youth

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett talks to Karen Buck MP, opposition spokeswoman for youth services

Early intervention under threat as biggest cuts strike deprived areas

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Exclusive analysis by CYP Now reveals that councils in the most disadvantaged areas are suffering most as a result of cuts outlined in the local government finance settlement for the coming year

Daily roundup: Benefit cuts, Whitehall wrangling over childcare, and snow hits schools across the UK

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Friday, January 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Government minister reveals that benefits plans will push 200,000 more children into poverty, the Treasury and the Department for Education at loggerheads over childcare policy, and snow forces more than 2,000 schools to close across the UK, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Electronic tags, 'train surfing', and a new training agency for teachers

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Thursday, January 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Figures show two-thirds of young people fitted with electronic tags go on to break their court order, warning over 'train surfing' craze in Wales, and plans to merge the Teaching Agency and the National College for School Leadership, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Free schools, Somerset youth cuts, and child protection in the Isle of Wight

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

| CYP Now

The Department for Education is ordered to publish a list of groups bidding to run free schools, a 21-year-old from Somerset is granted permission to appeal against cuts to youth services, and Ofsted rates child protection in the Isle of Wight 'inadequate', all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Safeguarding in Kent, Pickles on learning English, and the pupil premium in London

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted rates child safeguarding in Kent as 'adequate', Eric Pickles tells immigrant parents to teach their children English, and the Association for School and College Leaders calls for pupil premium cash to be redirected from London, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Female genital mutilation, call to decriminalise drugs, and the LGA on healthy school food

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Monday, January 14, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted to question schools on preventing female genital mutilation, a cross-party group of peers say drugs should be decriminalised, and the Local Government Association calls for a single food standard for all schools, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Academies, gender-related abortion, and 'safe-havens' for bullied children

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Figures show 15 per cent of all schools are now academies, claims of illegal gender-related abortions in the UK, and a Welsh scheme asks shops and businesses to provide 'safe-havens' to children being bullied on their way to school, in all the news today.

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Children's centres and youth sector hit, but care services escape cuts

Education for offenders has to make the grade

Daily roundup: 'Conflicts of interest' at the DfE; child poverty measurements, and safeguarding in Medway

Daily roundup: PE in schools; an anti-abuse campaign, and Camden's plan to relocate families

Daily roundup: Social mobility, hospital admissions, and personal budgets

Daily roundup: School privatisation, road safety, and how to spend the pupil premium

Funding Watch: The North Face Explore Fund

Daily roundup: Online abuse, early intervention, and social investment bonds

Skills for the Job: Working with deaf children

Central intelligence

Daily roundup: Twitter, online grooming, and identity theft from dead children

Daily roundup: HPV, hospital data sharing, and whistleblowing row in Kingston

Daily roundup: Improving maternity units, failing schools, and teenage alcohol abuse

Daily roundup: Boost for Birmingham's unemployed, A-level reform, and EBacc

DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers

Do we need more men?

Councils aim to share burden of reform

Labour plots vision for youth

Early intervention under threat as biggest cuts strike deprived areas

Daily roundup: Benefit cuts, Whitehall wrangling over childcare, and snow hits schools across the UK

Daily roundup: Electronic tags, 'train surfing', and a new training agency for teachers

Daily roundup: Free schools, Somerset youth cuts, and child protection in the Isle of Wight

Daily roundup: Safeguarding in Kent, Pickles on learning English, and the pupil premium in London

Daily roundup: Female genital mutilation, call to decriminalise drugs, and the LGA on healthy school food

Daily roundup: Academies, gender-related abortion, and 'safe-havens' for bullied children

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