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Community budgets could take on youth offending cash

Monday, January 24, 2011

| CYP Now

Funding for youth offending teams, the government's Work Programme and the early intervention grant could be channelled into "community budget" pilots from 1 April.

CYP Now 2013 Awards open for entry

News

Monday, April 15, 2013

| CYP Now

The 2013 Children & Young People Now Awards - the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK - are open for entries.

DfE data shows funding shift from universal to targeted services

Other

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Latest local authority spending figures suggest that early intervention is being sacrificed to fund statutory services as children's departments grapple with making a dwindling pot of money stretch further.

New restraint system criticised by children's rights campaigners

News

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

| CYP Now

Campaign groups have criticised a new system of restraint being adopted in youth custody settings because it continues to allow techniques that involve inflicting pain on young people.

Campaign urges police to halt the use of stop and search on young people

News

Thursday, August 9, 2012

| CYP Now

A campaign group of 15 youth organisations is calling on government and the police to radically reduce the use of stop and search on young Londoners.

Daily roundup: Pupil premium plus, inequality in schools and retirement for the chief executive of the YJB

Other

Monday, September 3, 2012

| CYP Now

A call for more education funding for children in care, concerns over school provision for ethnic minority pupils, and the chief executive of the Youth Justice Board announces his intention to retire, all in the news today.

Young people demand sound recording cameras in youth custody settings

News

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

| CYP Now

Youth custody settings and police stations should contain cameras that record sound to prevent young offenders being subjected to violence, a report has claimed.

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

News

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Councils could save more than £32,000 for each troubled family they work with by providing services in a more effective way, a government report has claimed.

Plan to axe YJB weakened its influence, says chief

News

Monday, January 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Government attempts to scrap the Youth Justice Board (YJB) resulted in it losing its authority, the chief executive of the organisation has conceded.

YOTs told to make case for mental health investment

News

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams must work closely with new health and wellbeing boards to drive down high numbers of vulnerable young people with mental health needs in the justice system, a charity has said.

Mutual benefits

Other

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Public sector employees are being encouraged to take control of the services they provide and run them as mutuals. Joe Lepper looks at the experiences of those pioneering the approach in children's services

Daily roundup: Funding for young offenders; Birmingham protests, and violence against parents

Other

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authority funding for young offenders is cut; protests over the future of children's services in Birmingham, and European Commission cash for a UK study on violence against parents, all in the news today.

Troubled Families programme on course to miss targets

News

Friday, April 4, 2014

| CYP Now

The government will miss its target to turn around the lives of 120,000 "troubled families" unless it speeds up the rate of success, a group of MPs has warned.

Performance-related payments ‘too risky' for charities, analysis warns

News

Thursday, April 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Public sector payment methods that link funding to performance outcomes are putting off many charities from bidding to deliver government programmes, research by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has found.

Councils need help to beat child poverty rise

Other

Monday, April 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Projecting what will happen to child poverty figures between now and 2020 is a difficult task for the statisticians and number crunchers, let alone politicians and campaigners. So pronouncements on what the future holds have to be treated with a hefty dose of caution, particularly with a general election not far away.

Daily roundup: Leaving care, young offenders and youth clubs

Other

Thursday, May 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Care leavers discuss social exclusion with ministers; Clegg criticises knife sentence plans; and graffiti artist bequeaths piece of work to Bristol youth club, all in the news today.

NCB estimates cuts of up to £405m for children's charities

News

Sunday, April 29, 2012

| CYP Now

Children and young people's charities face funding cuts of almost £405m over the five years up to 2015/16, the National Children's Bureau (NCB) has estimated.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

News

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

News

Thursday, September 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to make emergency in-year cuts of £13.5m to youth justice work have been blasted by children's services chiefs and youth justice managers.

Leicester lockdown: Concern over 'negative' impact of tightened restrictions on young people

News

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

| CYP Now

Sector leaders in Leicester have raised concerns over the impact of a local lockdown on children and young people.

CYP Now Awards: Winners revealed

Features

Thursday, March 4, 2021

| CYP Now

Winners of the Children & Young People Now Awards 2020 were revealed during a special virtual ceremony held on 4 March 2021.

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

News

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils have missed a first year target for the numbers of families to be worked with under the government's flagship troubled families initiative.

Budget 2024: Chancellor commits £165 million to boost children's homes capacity

News

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

| CYP Now

A £165 million boost to increase children’s homes capacity in England is among measures to support children and families included in the government’s latest budget.

ECM might be dead in name but its substance endures

Opinion

Monday, March 21, 2011

| CYP Now

The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda has been something of a taboo for the past 10 months.

Legal aid changes 'ignore children and young people'

News

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

| CYP Now

Justice for children and young people will be seriously undermined because the government has failed to recognise them as a group distinct from adults in its reforms to legal aid, the Children's Society has claimed.

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Community budgets could take on youth offending cash

CYP Now 2013 Awards open for entry

DfE data shows funding shift from universal to targeted services

New restraint system criticised by children's rights campaigners

Campaign urges police to halt the use of stop and search on young people

Daily roundup: Pupil premium plus, inequality in schools and retirement for the chief executive of the YJB

Young people demand sound recording cameras in youth custody settings

Troubled families intervention could save councils ‘billions'

Plan to axe YJB weakened its influence, says chief

YOTs told to make case for mental health investment

Mutual benefits

Daily roundup: Funding for young offenders; Birmingham protests, and violence against parents

Troubled Families programme on course to miss targets

Performance-related payments ‘too risky' for charities, analysis warns

Councils need help to beat child poverty rise

Daily roundup: Leaving care, young offenders and youth clubs

NCB estimates cuts of up to £405m for children's charities

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

Leicester lockdown: Concern over 'negative' impact of tightened restrictions on young people

CYP Now Awards: Winners revealed

Troubled families initiative falls short on first year target

Budget 2024: Chancellor commits £165 million to boost children's homes capacity

ECM might be dead in name but its substance endures

Legal aid changes 'ignore children and young people'

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