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Legal Update: The Children and Families Bill
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
The Children and Families Bill includes a number of proposed reforms to existing legislation. Christopher Sykes, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the principal changes
A fresh workforce strategy is vital
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | CYP Now
The ability to make a difference to children's lives is critically affected by the quality and training of the professionals and practitioners who work with them.
Mutual benefits
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- 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
Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect
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- 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.
Central intelligence
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- Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | CYP Now
Multi-agency safeguarding hubs bring together different professionals to share intelligence about children at risk. As they spring up nationwide, Joe Lepper examines what impact they are having
Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning
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- Thursday, January 31, 2013 | CYP Now
Central government must urgently consult local authorities on how new "social value" laws could impact on children's services, it has been has warned.
Adoption reforms ‘risk undermining support for vulnerable children'
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- Thursday, January 24, 2013 | CYP Now
Plans to redirect £150m of early intervention funding into adoption reform risk reducing frontline services for vulnerable children, the chair of the Local Government Association's (LGA) children and young people board has warned.
Government raids Early Intervention Grant to fund adoption reform
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- Thursday, January 24, 2013 | CYP Now
The government has slashed £150m from the Early Intervention Grant to plough into attempts to increase the number of adoptions in England, children's minister Edward Timpson has confirmed.
DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department's former ministers.
Do we need more men?
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
Women outnumber men across the children's workforce, particularly in work with young children. Charlotte Goddard investigates whether it matters and what employers could do to redress the balance
Councils aim to share burden of reform
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
A Children's Improvement Board scheme is allowing councils to learn from each other's experiences
Labour plots vision for youth
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
Neil Puffett talks to Karen Buck MP, opposition spokeswoman for youth services
Early intervention under threat as biggest cuts strike deprived areas
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
Exclusive analysis by CYP Now reveals that councils in the most disadvantaged areas are suffering most as a result of cuts outlined in the local government finance settlement for the coming year
Daily roundup: Benefit cuts, Whitehall wrangling over childcare, and snow hits schools across the UK
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- Friday, January 18, 2013 | CYP Now
Government minister reveals that benefits plans will push 200,000 more children into poverty, the Treasury and the Department for Education at loggerheads over childcare policy, and snow forces more than 2,000 schools to close across the UK, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Electronic tags, 'train surfing', and a new training agency for teachers
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- Thursday, January 17, 2013 | CYP Now
Figures show two-thirds of young people fitted with electronic tags go on to break their court order, warning over 'train surfing' craze in Wales, and plans to merge the Teaching Agency and the National College for School Leadership, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Free schools, Somerset youth cuts, and child protection in the Isle of Wight
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- Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | CYP Now
The Department for Education is ordered to publish a list of groups bidding to run free schools, a 21-year-old from Somerset is granted permission to appeal against cuts to youth services, and Ofsted rates child protection in the Isle of Wight 'inadequate', all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Safeguarding in Kent, Pickles on learning English, and the pupil premium in London
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- Tuesday, January 15, 2013 | CYP Now
Ofsted rates child safeguarding in Kent as 'adequate', Eric Pickles tells immigrant parents to teach their children English, and the Association for School and College Leaders calls for pupil premium cash to be redirected from London, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Female genital mutilation, call to decriminalise drugs, and the LGA on healthy school food
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- Monday, January 14, 2013 | CYP Now
Ofsted to question schools on preventing female genital mutilation, a cross-party group of peers say drugs should be decriminalised, and the Local Government Association calls for a single food standard for all schools, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Academies, gender-related abortion, and 'safe-havens' for bullied children
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- Friday, January 11, 2013 | CYP Now
Figures show 15 per cent of all schools are now academies, claims of illegal gender-related abortions in the UK, and a Welsh scheme asks shops and businesses to provide 'safe-havens' to children being bullied on their way to school, in all the news today.
Daily roundup: Profit-making schools, help to stop smoking, and preparing young people for work
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- Thursday, January 10, 2013 | CYP Now
Plan to allow profit-making companies to run free schools, a stop smoking service for young people in Wales, and a Department for Education scheme to get young people into work, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Khyra Ishaq, rising care applications, and childcare in France
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- Wednesday, January 9, 2013 | CYP Now
Khyra Ishaq's family attempt to sue Birmingham City Council, Cafcass figures on care applications, and the childcare minister Elizabeth Truss praises the European early years sector, all in the news today.
The 2013 Report: The year ahead for children and young people
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- Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | CYP Now
The coming year will present a profound set of challenges for all those who work with children, young people and families. CYP Now's 2013 Report aims to pinpoint these issues through a range of professionals. They put their cases for what must happen in policy and practice
Are children's charities too afraid now to ‘bite the hand that feeds'?
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- Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | CYP Now
Many children's charities rely on public funds, raising fears about their independence in defending the interests of service users in austere times. But plans are afoot for the voluntary sector to speak with a clearer voice
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