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Monday, April 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Bereaved children can struggle to come to terms with their loss, but the right support can help them make sense of death.

Campaign urges employers to target jobless young people

Monday, April 20, 2015

| CYP Now

Some of the UK's biggest companies are being called upon to do more to offer unemployed young people job opportunities.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

Review: The KidsKope Peer Mentoring Programme

Monday, April 13, 2015

| CYP Now

How children challenge body image issues

Monday, April 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Project reduces negative body image issues among primary schoolchildren and increases their self-esteem.

Tories to include fox hunting in National Citizen Service

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Fox hunting will be legalised so that it can be added to the list of activities for David Cameron's flagship National Citizen Service (NCS) programme if the Conservatives win next month's general election, CYP Now has learned.

Research Report: Patterns and Trends in Sources of Information About Sex Among Young People

Monday, March 30, 2015

| CYP Now

A team of researchers set out to discover whether young people have changed the ways they find out about sex.

Ask the Experts: Growing food, media stories of abuse, learning from mistakes and youth centre help for Eastern European children

Monday, March 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on growing vegetables, telling stories of abuse, learning from mistakes and help for Eastern European children.

Children & Young People Now Awards 2015: Step forward the class of 2015

Monday, March 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The Children & Young People Now Awards represent the gold standard in services for children, young people and families across the UK. They recognise the most innovative and effective work in transforming young lives and building a better society.

New Rotherham children's chief slams schools over continuing failure to tackle CSE

Friday, March 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Rotherham's director of children's services has condemned an "astonishing" lack of engagement by schools to tackle child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the borough while urging a greater focus and respect for youth work.

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

Friday, March 20, 2015

| CYP Now

A charity that aims to improve the lives of teenagers by recruiting them as mentors for vulnerable toddlers is among four programmes to win social impact bond (SIB) funding through the Youth Engagement Fund.

Declaration of independence: Anne Longfield, children's commissioner for England

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Gabriella Jozwiak meets Anne Longfield, children's commissioner for England.

Ask The Experts: Recognise young carers' needs

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on getting help for a young carer, school safeguarding, International Women's Day, and exploring light and shade.

How charities can demonstrate social value to commissioners

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

The way public services are commissioned is undergoing considerable change, but charities pitched into competition for funding with private companies have a possible advantage - as long as they can demonstrate the additional social values they provide above and beyond the primary aims of a project.

Recruitment in children's services: trends and challenges

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Funding cuts coupled with increased demand for services are intensifying the recruitment challenges for children's services employers. Joe Lepper explores the trends across the children's workforce.

Requirement to do voluntary work is an 'oxymoronic' policy

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

It is quite incredible that governments persist in their punitive "workfare" policies towards unemployed young people.

Skills for the Job: How to run outdoor activities

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Making the outdoors an everyday experience, whether for young children or teenagers, can have huge benefits for all involved.

Youth work programmes boost confidence and resilience

Monday, March 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth work programmes help young people develop important life skills, according to latest analysis.

Ask the Experts: Bereavement, YOI education support, youth work news project and spring in the nursery

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on helping bereaved children, education support in YOIs, a youth work news project and celebrating spring.

Gang prevention work needs to start in primary school, say MPs

Friday, February 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Urgent action is needed in schools to warn pupils as young as seven of the dangers of gang involvement, according to a report by MPs.

Brent Council rejects youth service closure plans but backs outsourcing

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

| CYP Now

The London Borough of Brent has thrown out plans to axe youth services, close children's centres and impose sweeping cuts to its Connexions services.

Campaigner raises concerns over Northamptonshire outsourcing plans

Monday, February 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Northamptonshire County Council plans to outsource all of its children's services, including child protection, to a staff-run mutual have been criticised by Children England.

Ask The Experts: Nursery medicine, CSE concerns, council help for academies and youth film nights

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on drugs in nursery settings, addressing CSE concerns, council help for academies and youth club film nights.

Peer mentoring scheme extends to Manchester school