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DfE announces voluntary sector funding

    News
  • Friday, May 10, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Promotion of adoption 'parties' and connecting vulnerable young people with arts and cultural facilities are among the projects that have received government voluntary sector funding.

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect to be suffering from neglect, but up to 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, a report has warned.

Don't take early intervention for granted

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 15, 2012
  • | CYP Now
When the Deputy Prime Minister made the welcome announcement at the Liberal Democrat conference that £100m of capital funding would go to help nurseries and childminders increase the number of places they offer, it felt like the party conference season was getting off to a promising start for early intervention.

Cuts spell the end of early intervention as we know it

    Other
  • Monday, October 15, 2012
  • | CYP Now
The proposed removal of the Early Intervention Grant to local authorities might not attract the same level of attention as other headline-grabbing plans, such as the abolition of housing benefit for under-25s, but it is without doubt one of the scandals of the year - the policy itself and the way it was (not) communicated.

Happier beginnings

    Other
  • Monday, April 16, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Mothers can be unprepared for having a baby, feeling overwhelmed or depressed, but Family Action's "befriender" projects aim to relieve the pressure. Emily Rogers visits one project in Nottinghamshire