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Sandwell starts to tackle service problems after private partner deal
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- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | CYP Now
Simon White, the privately-employed DCS at Sandwell Council, says other struggling authorities may follow their lead by partnering with an outside agency to run children's services
CYP Now 2018 Award winners unveiled
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- Thursday, November 22, 2018 | CYP Now
The 2018 CYP Now Awards were revealed last night on a night of celebration and pride for the sector.
Childcare funding in spotlight
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- Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | CYP Now
Early years experts outline changes needed to ease financial pressures as parliamentary inquiry launched.
Childminders deemed key to two-year-old offer
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- Thursday, June 13, 2013 | CYP Now
Councils should do more to recruit and support childminders in order to boost places for the free childcare entitlement for two-year-olds, a government report recommends.
Empathy scheme extends to early years
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- Tuesday, June 18, 2013 | CYP Now
A scheme that brings babies into primary schools to improve pupils' behaviour is to be extended to early years settings.
Scouts turn focus on pre-schoolers
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Analysis
- Wednesday, January 2, 2019 | CYP Now
Youth organisation launches programme supporting four- and five-year-olds in disadvantaged areas.
Osborne announces school funding overhaul
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- Wednesday, June 26, 2013 | CYP Now
Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to introduce a new national funding formula for schools to ensure money is fairly distributed between local areas.
DfE to assess early years funding disparities
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- Monday, July 1, 2013 | CYP Now
The Department for Education is planning to review early years funding to ensure money is fairly distributed between local areas.
Daily roundup: Louise Casey, pupil premium and inspections
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- Wednesday, July 3, 2013 | CYP Now
Troubled families tsar Louise Casey criticises "colluding" social workers, research backs pupil premium effectiveness, and LGA chief calls for changes to inspections for children's services, all in the news today.
Early years innovation receives Harvard University boost
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- Monday, January 21, 2019 | CYP Now
An early years initiative aimed at reducing isolation and stress among families in deprived areas is to benefit from Harvard University research and development support.
Research Report: Evaluating the contribution of the Family Nurse Partnership
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- Tuesday, July 9, 2013 | CYP Now
Authors Kevin D Browne and Vicki Jackson, Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology, University of Nottingham Medical School
Published by Journal of Public Health, May 2013
Behind the Inspection Rating: ‘Smart table' supports learners
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- Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | CYP Now
How creative thinking and parent engagement helped Busy Bees Evesham achieve an outstanding rating in its latest Ofsted inspection.
Staffed play provision missing from childcare plans
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- Friday, July 26, 2013 | CYP Now
The government's childcare plans ignore the importance of staffed after-school play provision, experts have warned.
MP warns over inadequate childcare funding levels
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- Tuesday, February 19, 2019 | CYP Now
The childcare system is "unsustainable" with inadequate funding rates threatening the future of providers, an MP who secured a debate on the issue has warned.
Childcare professionals reject DfE plans to simplify staff management
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- Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | CYP Now
Plans to remove requirements on childcare settings to regularly appraise staff and improve qualification levels have been criticised by early years professionals.
Charity's guiding light: Julie Bentley, chief executive of Action for Children
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Features
- Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | CYP Now
Derren Hayes meets Julie Bentley, chief executive of Action for Children.
Shared Picture Book Reading and Language Development
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Research
- Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | CYP Now
Training parents to share picture books with their children has long been seen as a strategy to support development through scaffolding early cognition and language development.
Daily roundup: Sexual exploitation, youth unemployment and children's centres
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- Wednesday, September 11, 2013 | CYP Now
Government's response on child sexual exploitation criticised; small rise in youth unemployment; and minister plays down significance of children's centre closures, all in the news today.
Ofsted data management frustrates early years sector
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- Friday, September 20, 2013 | CYP Now
The Pre-school Learning Alliance has questioned Ofsted's management of inspection data, after the regulator was unable to give it details of how many early years providers had been downgraded following complaints about services.
Extend 30 hours to more families, urges social mobility body
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- Tuesday, April 30, 2019 | CYP Now
The government should extend the 30 hours childcare entitlement to all parents working eight hours a week to ensure it reaches more low-income families, the Social Mobility Commission has said.
Daily roundup: New BAAF chief, child runaways, and child exploitation
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- Friday, September 20, 2013 | CYP Now
Srabani Sen to take over as BAAF chief executive; 32 councils sign charity's Runaway Charter; and children being forced to perform sex acts online, all in the news today.
Childminders should be wary of pilot agencies, warns early years expert
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- Friday, October 4, 2013 | CYP Now
An early years expert has warned childminders to be wary of signing up to agencies being piloted by the Department for Education.
Ofsted early years guidance needs more clarity, says Alliance
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- Tuesday, October 8, 2013 | CYP Now
The weight given by inspectors to a nursery's complaints history in deciding its Ofsted grading needs to be clarified, says the chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.
Fifth of nurseries in deprived areas face closure
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- Tuesday, June 11, 2019 | CYP Now
Nearly one in five nurseries in deprived areas of England are facing closure within the next 12 months due to the early years funding shortfall.
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