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Learning providers call for payment-by-results in schools

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

| CYP Now

Schools should be subject to a payment-by-results system of funding dependent on their pupils' maths and English GCSE results, apprenticeship providers have claimed.

Government urged to reconsider Early Intervention Grant changes

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Monday, October 15, 2012

| CYP Now

Professionals warn that changes to the Early Intervention Grant spell uncertainty for services ranging from children's centres and short breaks for disabled children to youth work and counselling for teenagers

Girls 'twice as likely' to experience emotional problems as boys

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Thursday, January 11, 2018

| CYP Now

Girls are more than twice as likely to experience emotional problems as boys, according to the initial findings of a £56m programme aimed at improving mental health support for young people.

Scheme takes youth work lessons into schools

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

| CYP Now

The New Horizons programme aims to develop young people's confidence, while allowing them to gain a qualification in youth work

Committee urges stronger powers for children's commissioner

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Monday, December 10, 2012

| CYP Now

England's children's commissioner should be given stronger powers, while the title of the role should be changed to include "young people", an influential group of MPs and peers has said.

Aye or Naw, young Scots have a stake in their future

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Monday, April 28, 2014

| CYP Now

The Scottish independence vote will pave the way for all 16-year-olds to have a say in future elections, says Tam Baillie.

Social action programmes to share £2.5m

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Friday, May 2, 2014

| CYP Now

The Cabinet Office has awarded £2.5m to 26 social action programmes providing support for vulnerable young people including care leavers and young offenders.

Daily roundup: Youth votes, leadership and child mortality

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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

| CYP Now

Half of young people say they won't vote at next election; Doncaster Children's Trust appoints first chief executive; and report recommends how to reduce child mortality, all in the news today.

Skills for the Job: Delivering financial education

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Monday, May 26, 2014

| CYP Now

Teaching children about the value of money and how to manage it can prevent financial problems arising later on in their lives.

Children's leaders left 'puzzled' by calls to remove DCS duty on councils

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Monday, May 26, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authority chief executives' group says the requirement for a director of children's services is stifling innovation in children's services and isolating it from the rest of local government - arguments that don't stack up, say leaders.

Call for councils to lead youth employment schemes

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

| CYP Now

The government should hand over responsibility for youth employment schemes to local authorities in order to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet), council leaders have said.

Daily roundup: Parenting, historical child abuse, and school dinners

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Wilshaw calls for fines for parents not supporting their child's education; MPs back inquiry into historical child abuse cases; and new school meal standards limit unhealthy foods, all in the news today.

30,000 adolescents disengaged despite raised participation age, figures show

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Thursday, June 26, 2014

| CYP Now

Almost 30,000 16-year-olds were not in education or training at the end of 2013 despite the government raising the participation age to 17, official figures reveal.

Only government can stop the dismantling of youth services

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Monday, July 21, 2014

| CYP Now

The finding from the Cabinet Office survey that total funding for council youth services fell by 22.3 per cent in the two years up to April 2014 will not come as a huge surprise to many in youth work.

My Life: Jordan Glaze, 18, London

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Monday, October 13, 2014

| CYP Now

I am a member of Prospex, a charity that supports young people in Islington to achieve their full potential in life. I've been going to their youth club sessions since 2010.

Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den investor to lead apprenticeships review

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

| CYP Now

Former Dragons' Den investor Doug Richard has been chosen by the government to lead an independent review into the future of apprenticeships.

Youth unemployment ‘hotspots' to get early support

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

| CYP Now

Support for young people in the 20 "youth unemployment hot spots" will be accelerated under the government's Youth Contract, the Deputy Prime Minister has announced.

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: 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.

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.

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Learning providers call for payment-by-results in schools

Government urged to reconsider Early Intervention Grant changes

Girls 'twice as likely' to experience emotional problems as boys

Scheme takes youth work lessons into schools

Committee urges stronger powers for children's commissioner

Aye or Naw, young Scots have a stake in their future

Social action programmes to share £2.5m

Daily roundup: Youth votes, leadership and child mortality

Skills for the Job: Delivering financial education

Children's leaders left 'puzzled' by calls to remove DCS duty on councils

Call for councils to lead youth employment schemes

Daily roundup: Parenting, historical child abuse, and school dinners

30,000 adolescents disengaged despite raised participation age, figures show

Only government can stop the dismantling of youth services

My Life: Jordan Glaze, 18, London

Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den investor to lead apprenticeships review

Youth unemployment ‘hotspots' to get early support

Daily roundup: Female genital mutilation, call to decriminalise drugs, and the LGA on healthy school food

Daily roundup: Free schools, Somerset youth cuts, and child protection in the Isle of Wight

DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers

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