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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
Pledge to retain visibility of early intervention spending is 'tiny concession'
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- Friday, January 4, 2013 | CYP Now
The government's decision to compel local authorities to reveal their early intervention expenditure by publishing a funding profile has been attacked as a "meaningless exercise".
Martin Narey receives knighthood as New Year honours recognise sector's work
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- Thursday, January 3, 2013 | CYP Now
The government adoption adviser Martin Narey received a knighthood in the New Year's honors list, among more than 150 people recognised for their work with children and young people.
Support services sideline teenage dads, charities warn
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- Tuesday, December 18, 2012 | CYP Now
Teenage fathers are being ignored by "mother-centred" support services that treat young men as "invisible", a report by a consortium of charities has warned.
Daily roundup: Primary league tables, diagnosing cleft palate, and health inequalities in Scotland
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- Thursday, December 13, 2012 | CYP Now
Annual primary school rankings, concerns over late diagnosis of cleft palate in babies, and a report warns the poorest children in Scotland will die 13 years before their peers, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Doncaster resignation, riots report, and GCSE legal challenge
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- Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | CYP Now
The chair of Doncaster's Children's Board steps down, post-riots report calls for improved youth engagement in Tottenham, and the GCSE grade boundaries argument reaches court, all in the news today.
Quiz of the Year 2012
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- Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | CYP Now
How closely have you been following the ups and downs of the children and young people's sector over the past 12 months? Test your knowledge here with the CYP Now quiz of the year
Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices
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- Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.
Families braced for more pain as autumn statement extends cuts
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- Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | CYP Now
The economic announcements made by George Osborne in his autumn statement include further budget cuts. Lauren Higgs, Neil Puffett and Gabriella Józwiak examine the implications for children and families
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