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Universal credit will deter single parents from full-time work

Friday, May 20, 2011

| CYP Now

Single parents wanting to work full-time will be worse off when the universal credit is implemented, according to the latest analysis of government welfare reforms.

Daily roundup: Age disputes, exercise, and parenting advice

Other

Friday, May 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Hundreds of claims against council over age disputes, children exercising less, and tips for parents on getting children prepared for school, all in today's news.

Daily roundup: DfE cuts, schools in Wales and paternity leave

Other

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

| CYP Now

£2bn cut threat for the Department for Education, a call for Welsh councils to lose school duties, and a think tank suggests 'use it or lose it' paternity leave, all in the news today.

Social Mobility Commission calls for pupil premium extension to early years

News

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

| CYP Now

The pupil premium should be extended into nurseries, according to the government-appointed Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.

Sector welcomes opposition's free childcare proposals

News

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

| CYP Now

The early years sector has welcomed Labour's pledge to increase free childcare if the party is elected, but warned the policy will only work if it is properly costed and providers consulted.

Daily roundup: Childcare, family breakdown, and child health

Other

Thursday, February 27, 2014

| CYP Now

Study highlights benefits of breakfast clubs; parents unaware of help for family breakdown issues; and study links child health problems to older fathers, all in the news today.

Your guide to the Children and Families Act

Features

Monday, March 31, 2014

| CYP Now

What the act means for everyday practice across the children's workforce.

Daily roundup: School admissions code, extremism, and jobseeker's allowance

Other

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Attempts to help disadvantaged children get into best schools; report on 'Trojan Horse' plot published; and review backs jobseeker's allowance sanction system, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Democracy, care applications, and parenting

Other

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Childcare minister brands celebrity's no vote message "sad"; care applications rise again; and children with married parents less antisocial than those brought up in unmarried homes say researchers, all in the news today.

HMRC urged to reverse nursery closures

News

Monday, September 3, 2012

| CYP Now

The trade union that represents staff at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is calling on the authority to reverse its decision to close its eight staff nurseries across the UK.

Energy bills force families to cut back on food and fuel

News

Monday, February 20, 2012

| CYP Now

More than 90 per cent of Barnardo's services have supported families with debts owed to their gas or electricity supplier.

Tax credit changes leave families more than £500 a year worse off

News

Thursday, April 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Families with children will lose an average of £511 a year, while more than one million will no longer receive tax credits due to government changes coming into force this week, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Parents turn down work to cope with cost of childcare

News

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Parents are turning down job opportunities and borrowing money to cover the costs of childcare, a survey by the Daycare Trust and Mumsnet has found.

Leading children's charities warn of spike in poverty due to austerity measures

News

Friday, July 6, 2012

| CYP Now

Three leading charities have warned that the number of children living in poverty will rise to more than one million by 2015 as a result of austerity measures and the impact of the recession.

Daily roundup: Self-harm, premature babies, and child nutrition

Other

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

| CYP Now

ChildLine reports rising numbers of calls relating to self-harm, research shows increasing numbers of premature babies are surviving, and concerns over "confusing" guidance on nutrition, all in the news today.

MPs call for national parenting support programme

News

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

| CYP Now

There should be national co-ordination of parenting support with local authorities playing a more active role in evaluating provision in their area, a parliamentary inquiry has concluded.

Unexplained infant deaths rise for first time in five years

News

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

| CYP Now

The rate of unexplained infant deaths has risen for the first time in five years prompting a call for government to develop a national strategy to tackle the issue.

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).

Ask The Experts: Draw up your inclusion policy

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on writing an inclusive "vision", the right support for a family, singing in the nursery and young entrepreneurs.

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

Other

Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Qualification requirements and training provision for working with children and young people is continuously adapting in line with changes in policy and practice. Charlotte Goddard provides a comprehensive overview.

Child maintenance assessments are full of errors

News

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| CYP Now

The auditor general has been unable to sign off the accounts for the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission because they contain too many errors.

Fighting for survival

Opinion

Monday, February 14, 2011

| CYP Now

A manager at one voluntary organisation talks about what the cuts have meant for her project's work, the fight to keep it going and her fears for the future.

Charities warn government not to break link between inflation and benefit payments

News

Friday, November 18, 2011

| CYP Now

The government has been accused of failing on its own family-friendly test after reports that Chancellor George Osborne is expected to cap the annual benefit increase next April at 4.5 per cent.

Centre thrives on clarity of purpose

Best Practice

Monday, April 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Newport Children's Centre, Waltham Forest, London; Children's centre inspection; March 2013

Daily roundup: child alcohol consumption, food banks and child protection inspection

Other

Thursday, May 30, 2013

| CYP Now

School-age children are drinking less alcohol, more than half a million people now rely on food banks, and concerns raised after inspection of child protection services at Scottish councils, all in the news today.

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Universal credit will deter single parents from full-time work

Daily roundup: Age disputes, exercise, and parenting advice

Daily roundup: DfE cuts, schools in Wales and paternity leave

Social Mobility Commission calls for pupil premium extension to early years

Sector welcomes opposition's free childcare proposals

Daily roundup: Childcare, family breakdown, and child health

Your guide to the Children and Families Act

Daily roundup: School admissions code, extremism, and jobseeker's allowance

Daily roundup: Democracy, care applications, and parenting

HMRC urged to reverse nursery closures

Energy bills force families to cut back on food and fuel

Tax credit changes leave families more than £500 a year worse off

Parents turn down work to cope with cost of childcare

Leading children's charities warn of spike in poverty due to austerity measures

Daily roundup: Self-harm, premature babies, and child nutrition

MPs call for national parenting support programme

Unexplained infant deaths rise for first time in five years

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

Ask The Experts: Draw up your inclusion policy

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

Child maintenance assessments are full of errors

Fighting for survival

Charities warn government not to break link between inflation and benefit payments

Centre thrives on clarity of purpose

Daily roundup: child alcohol consumption, food banks and child protection inspection

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