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Child deaths were avoidable

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  • Tuesday, February 5, 2008
  • | CYP Now
A significant number of child deaths could have been prevented if professionals acted differently, a government-funded study is set to conclude.

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.

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.

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