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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

The ideas importer

    Other
  • Monday, March 19, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Lauren Higgs talks to George Hoskings, chief executive of the Wave Trust

Early intervention grant raises questions over fairness and bias

Against a backdrop of continued austerity, the announcement last month that the early intervention grant is set to rise by six per cent from April appeared to offer some hope that services tackling deep-seated issues among the most disadvantaged children and families would be boosted.

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