Search Results

Found 1,589 results for .

Skills council seeking input on CAF guidance

    News
  • Thursday, January 8, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The sector skills council for the children's workforce is looking for practitioners and managers to help update guidance on the Common Assessment Framework and the lead professional role.

Think Big Society

    Other
  • Monday, September 13, 2010
  • | CYP Now
David Cameron has pledged to scale back state-run public services and give citizens the power to "build the Britain they want". Here, six leading figures from the sector explore what the Prime Minister's vision will mean.

Former DCS to manage quango cuts

    Other
  • Monday, October 4, 2010
  • | CYP Now
An influential former director of children's services (DCS) has been tasked with overseeing the abolition of quangos within the Department for Education (DfE).

Interview: Baroness Beverley Hughes, Labour peer

Beverley Hughes, the former children's minister who was awarded a peerage in May, is preparing to get stuck into her new role in the House of Lords, in which she says her old brief will be her top priority.

Election 2010: Party Policy Guide

    Other
  • Friday, April 23, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The general election will have a huge influence on how we improve young lives. CYP Now has scrutinised the manifestos and other policy commitments to bring you the definitive guide to what the main parties pledge on the key issues for children, young people and their families.

Information sharing

    Other
  • Tuesday, November 11, 2008
  • | CYP Now
While England will be launching a nationwide information-sharing system for most children's services in 2009, Ross Watson and Lauren Higgs look at different approaches across the UK to sharing sensitive information.

Trust for London

    Funding
  • Wednesday, February 23, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Funding to challenge discrimination faced by disabled people, to promote the inclusion and integration of recently established communities, to strengthen "mother tongue" and supplementary schools in providing creative learning opportunities and for "new and emerging needs"

Wates Foundation

    Funding
  • Wednesday, February 23, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The foundation offers funding across five areas including building family values and sustaining the environment

Young mums see rosy future

    Other
  • Monday, April 29, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Family nurse partnerships originated in the US in the 1970s to support first-time teenage parents. Imported to England six years ago, the government is continuing to fund their expansion. Joe Lepper finds out why