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Leicester playgrounds' future uncertain amid £1mn funding cuts

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

| CYP Now

Adventure playgrounds in Leicester have until the end of September to prove they can become self-funded as the council plans to cut their £1m a year funding.

Call for clarity on family hubs funding

News

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

| CYP Now

Children’s sector leaders have called on the new Labour government to quickly commit to long-term funding for family hubs amid concerns that any delays could see services close or lose staff.

Eight in 10 early years settings struggling with staff retention, survey finds

News

Monday, August 5, 2024

| CYP Now

More than eight in 10 nurseries, pre-schools and childminders have seen an increase in the number of staff members leaving the sector compared to two years ago, a survey of the early years workforce has found.

SEND inclusion in mainstream schools key to DfE reorganisation

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

As new Prime Minister Keir Starmer finalises ministers, changes in the Department for Education teams suggest a focus on reforming support for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Factors behind two-year-old decline

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Falling number of children accessing funded entitlement down to demographic and eligibility changes which need fixes, say experts.

New government puts children’s wellbeing at heart of its agenda

Analysis

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

In the King’s Speech, Labour outlined legislation to improve child mental health services, protect children educated outside of school, boost safeguards for vulnerable young people and raise education standards.

Plans approved for former nursery to become special school

News

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

| CYP Now

A secondary school for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is set to open on a former nursery site, in response to the previous government’s SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan.

EHCPs for half of children delayed, study finds

News

Friday, July 26, 2024

| CYP Now

Just 49% of education, health and care plans (EHCPs) for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) were produced within the 20-week statutory limit in 2022, with families "begging" councils for help, a report has revealed.

Early years maths programme benefits disadvantaged children

News

Thursday, July 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Children eligible for the early years pupil premium (EYPP) are most likely to benefit from a maths programme provided by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), analysis has found.

DfE has ‘little understanding’ on impact of spending on disadvantaged pupils, NAO finds

News

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has “limited evidence” on how well more than £4 billion worth of funding is being spent on initiatives designed to improve the attainment of disadvantaged children, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog.

DfE confirms ministerial responsibilities

News

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has confirmed the responsibilities of its ministers.

King’s Speech 2024: Sector welcomes mental health and education support

News

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

| CYP Now

Sector leaders have welcomed elements of the King's Speech linked to services for children's mental health and education but have questioned the omission of issues including children's social care reform and votes for 16-and 17-year-olds.

Young children with SEND face ‘widest attainment gap on record’

News

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

| CYP Now

Disadvantaged reception-aged children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are academically further behind their non-disadvantaged peers than at any other time on record, according to a new report.

Council gives nurseries six months to find school or academy partner

News

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

| CYP Now

Croydon Council is warning two of its maintained nurseries that they need to find an academy or primary school partner within six months to ensure they are financially sustainable.

General Election 2024: Next government urged to prioritise children as voters go to polls

News

Thursday, July 4, 2024

| CYP Now

As voters across the UK go to the polls, children’s sector leaders and campaigners are strengthening calls for the next government to focus on young people.

Enough funding for providers is voters’ top childcare priority ahead of election

News

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

| CYP Now

Voters believe the best way to improve early education and childcare is to ensure providers are properly funded to deliver government schemes such as the expansion of free childcare hours for working families.

Children’s charities on issues the next government must prioritise

Features

Monday, July 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Improved special educational needs support, expansion of social prescribing to boost youth mental health and investment in health visiting services are key policy asks sought by children’s charities, finds Amrit Virdi.

Nine in 10 councils ‘not confident’ they can deliver full funded childcare expansion

News

Thursday, June 27, 2024

| CYP Now

Just under nine in 10 councils are not confident there will be enough childcare places in their area to meet the government’s full expansion of free hours for children from working families.

Inside a family hub

Features

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

| CYP Now

Haringey’s first family hub has been open for just over a year. Nicole Weinstein visited the setting to find out how it works and the difference it makes to local children, young people and families.

Council spending on early years and children’s services set for dramatic real-terms increase, data shows

News

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on early years provision is set to increase by almost half this year while children’s social care costs could see a real-terms increase of 11%, according to government data.

Baby deaths reveal culture of poor practice

Analysis

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

High-profile deaths of two babies in preventable incidents in nurseries have raised wider issues over safeguarding procedures.

Longfield calls for new government poverty unit ahead of general election

News

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has called for the next government to establish a poverty unit sitting within Downing Street as part of a 10-point plan to halve child poverty by 2029.

The hits and misses of a ‘patchy’ parliament for children’s services

Features

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

The past five years saw a pandemic, Brexit fallout, the cost-of-living crisis and regular political upheaval. For children’s services, there was progress and missed opportunities. Experts pick the key developments.

Multi-agency data sharing must be improved to boost child development, say early years leaders

News

Thursday, June 20, 2024

| CYP Now

The next government needs to develop a national dataset encompassing education, health and social care details for all children, according to recommendations made ahead of July’s general election by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).

Labour and Conservative childcare pledges will hit ‘poor urban areas’ hardest, think-tank warns

News

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

| CYP Now

Disadvantaged urban areas are set to be hardest hit by a surge in demand for childcare places under early years plans published in both the Conservative and Labour parties’ manifestos, a think-tank is warning.

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