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Efforts to increase provision of free childcare and expand the troubled families initiative will be monitored by new taskforces, the government has announced.

Haringey 'missed chances' to help young killer

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Haringey Council has been criticised for failing a teenage boy who is serving a life sentence for murdering a stranger in the street.

Youth justice system 'fails vulnerable girls'

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth justice agencies are failing to give vulnerable girls the support they need because services are too geared towards helping boys, a newly formed pressure group has claimed.

Time for Tories to deliver

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Monday, May 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's leaders call for the Conservatives to curb cuts but deliver on other pledges.

Sector demands early intervention commitment from next government

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

| CYP Now

More than 50 children's sector organisations have joined forces to call on the next government to significantly boost early intervention spending.

Guide helps children's professionals understand key election pledges

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Children & Young People Now presents the definitive guide to what the main parliamentary parties are pledging on key issues for children, young people and families.

Election 2015: Party Policy Guide

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes has trawled the manifestos to provide the definitive guide to what the main parliamentary parties are pledging on key issues for children, young people and families.

Framework set to improve councils' response to harmful sexual behaviour by children

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

| CYP Now

A group of charities, youth justice agencies and council leaders have come together to tackle the lack of support for children who display harmful sexual behaviour (HSB).

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

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

Children's services leaders call for wholesale changes to Ofsted inspection system

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

| CYP Now

The current Ofsted inspection system for children's services should be scrapped and replaced with a light-touch but better-targeted approach, children's services and local authority leaders say.

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

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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.

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

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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.

Leeds teenager let down by care and justice agencies

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

| CYP Now

A teenage young offender found hanged in his cell was let down by the "collective corporate system", according to a damning serious case review (SCR) into his death.

MPs criticise Ofsted and DfE for 'Trojan Horse' failings

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs have criticised Ofsted and the Department for Education (DfE) for their handling of the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham.

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

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

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

Review: Children Behind Bars

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Recruitment in children's services: trends and challenges

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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.

Inspectorate censures police for holding vulnerable children in cells

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Police forces have been criticised for placing vulnerable children in cells as a substitute for appropriate welfare provision.

Children's centres bear brunt of Newcastle service cuts

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Friday, March 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Newcastle City Council has approved £3.2m worth of cuts to Sure Start and family services.

Hackney innovation scheme to divert young people from gangs

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

| CYP Now

Teenagers at risk of gang crime and child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Hackney are to benefit from £1.97m worth of children's social care innovation fund money.

Professionals who fail to act on CSE face five-year jail term

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's social workers, teachers and local councillors will face up to five years in jail for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

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

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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.

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Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

Prime Minister creates taskforces to drive childcare and troubled families reforms

Haringey 'missed chances' to help young killer

Youth justice system 'fails vulnerable girls'

Time for Tories to deliver

Sector demands early intervention commitment from next government

Guide helps children's professionals understand key election pledges

Election 2015: Party Policy Guide

Framework set to improve councils' response to harmful sexual behaviour by children

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Children's services leaders call for wholesale changes to Ofsted inspection system

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

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

Leeds teenager let down by care and justice agencies

MPs criticise Ofsted and DfE for 'Trojan Horse' failings

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

Review: Children Behind Bars

Recruitment in children's services: trends and challenges

Inspectorate censures police for holding vulnerable children in cells

Children's centres bear brunt of Newcastle service cuts

Hackney innovation scheme to divert young people from gangs

Professionals who fail to act on CSE face five-year jail term

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

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