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Labour Conference 2011: Miliband promises young people 'a new bargain'

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

| CYP Now

Young people are being given a false impression of the routes to success in life due to the influences of celebrity culture and gangs, Labour leader Ed Miliband has said.

Labour Conference 2011: Payment-by-results 'the only game in town' for early intervention

News

Monday, September 26, 2011

| CYP Now

Spending on public services and early intervention will not increase under a Labour government, the Labour MP who led a government review on the issue has warned.

Cabinet Secretary urged to investigate DfE email allegations

News

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

| CYP Now

Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell is being called on to launch an investigation into the latest scandal to rock the Department for Education (DfE).

Councils pass on severe budget cuts to hundreds of children's charities

News

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

| CYP Now

Almost 400 charities working with children and young people are facing crippling budget cuts due to a fall in council funding, according to latest Trades Union Congress (TUC) research.

Andrew Christie to take charge at first tri-borough children's services department

News

Friday, July 22, 2011

| CYP Now

England's first director of children's services to be charged with managing provision across three local authorities is to control an annual budget of more than 500m.

One in four children's services chiefs take on adult services responsibility

Other

Monday, July 11, 2011

| CYP Now

Nearly a quarter of directors of children's services (DCSs) in England is responsible also for adult services, analysis by CYP Now has revealed.

Private finance can intervene now, but not for generations

Opinion

Monday, July 11, 2011

| CYP Now

Early intervention is popular right now in theory, but in many areas is being decimated in practice.

Financing intervention: Allen report at a glance

Other

Monday, July 11, 2011

| CYP Now

MP Graham Allen's second report in his government-commissioned review into early intervention was published last week. It began to address how evidence-based schemes can be financed. While reiterating the now widely-recognised evidence that intervening before problems arise yields savings in the long term, Allen challenges the government to take the lead and make widespread early intervention a reality.

TDA chief to take over at NCB

News

Thursday, June 2, 2011

| CYP Now

The executive director of the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) Dr Hilary Emery has been appointed as the new chief executive of the National Children's Bureau (NCB).

Charities voice fears over lack of checks under new vetting and barring legislation

Other

Friday, May 27, 2011

| CYP Now

Children will be endangered unless vetting and barring rules ensure that all adults in contact with them are checked whether they are supervised or not, a leading charity has warned.

Coalition one-year report: freedoms, cuts and reviews galore

Other

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| CYP Now

One year since the coalition government assumed power, CYP Now asks leading figures across the sector to examine its record to date in serving the needs of children, young people and families.

Home in on your evidence

Other

Friday, April 15, 2011

| CYP Now

Billions of pounds have been spent on programmes that don't have a robust evidence base, the government argues. So how can children's and youth sector organisations prove that they are worthy of investment, asks Joe Lepper.

CYP Now 2011 Awards open for entry

News

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's and youth organisations are being encouraged to enter this year's CYP Now Awards.

Enter the Children & Young People Now Awards 2011

Other

Friday, April 1, 2011

| CYP Now

The Children & Young People Now Awards have become the gold standard for everyone working with children, young people and families.

CWDC announces remit for its final year of government funding

News

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| CYP Now

The government has awarded the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) 113.4m to continue its workforce development programmes in social work and early years until April 2012.

Birmingham to lose 750 jobs in children's services

News

Monday, March 28, 2011

| CYP Now

Cuts of 68m to Birmingham's children's services have been rubber-stamped in a move that will mean the loss of around 750 jobs.

New and improved CYP Now website set for launch

News

Thursday, March 24, 2011

| CYP Now

A new and improved CYP Now website is due to go live on Monday 28 March. Users of the site will notice a number of improvements. These include:

Labour committed to values of ECM

Other

Monday, March 21, 2011

| CYP Now

Every Child Matters (ECM) is more relevant today than ever before, Labour's shadow children's minister has claimed.

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.

Children's services take hit of more than half a billion pounds

Other

Monday, March 7, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's services departments are set to lose well in excess of 500m by the end of the month as councils finalise their 2010/11 budgets, analysis by CYP Now has revealed.