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Do we need more men?

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Women outnumber men across the children's workforce, particularly in work with young children. Charlotte Goddard investigates whether it matters and what employers could do to redress the balance

Councils aim to share burden of reform

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

A Children's Improvement Board scheme is allowing councils to learn from each other's experiences

Labour plots vision for youth

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett talks to Karen Buck MP, opposition spokeswoman for youth services

Early intervention under threat as biggest cuts strike deprived areas

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Exclusive analysis by CYP Now reveals that councils in the most disadvantaged areas are suffering most as a result of cuts outlined in the local government finance settlement for the coming year

Daily roundup: Benefit cuts, Whitehall wrangling over childcare, and snow hits schools across the UK

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Friday, January 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Government minister reveals that benefits plans will push 200,000 more children into poverty, the Treasury and the Department for Education at loggerheads over childcare policy, and snow forces more than 2,000 schools to close across the UK, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Electronic tags, 'train surfing', and a new training agency for teachers

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Thursday, January 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Figures show two-thirds of young people fitted with electronic tags go on to break their court order, warning over 'train surfing' craze in Wales, and plans to merge the Teaching Agency and the National College for School Leadership, 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.

Youth Contract to help more young people

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

| CYP Now

An additional 15,000 16- and 17-year-olds are to receive help to find work or training through the Youth Contract, following a government review of the programme's "narrow" criteria.

Daily roundup: Safeguarding in Kent, Pickles on learning English, and the pupil premium in London

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted rates child safeguarding in Kent as 'adequate', Eric Pickles tells immigrant parents to teach their children English, and the Association for School and College Leaders calls for pupil premium cash to be redirected from London, all in the news today.

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: Academies, gender-related abortion, and 'safe-havens' for bullied children

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Figures show 15 per cent of all schools are now academies, claims of illegal gender-related abortions in the UK, and a Welsh scheme asks shops and businesses to provide 'safe-havens' to children being bullied on their way to school, in all the news today.

Daily roundup: Profit-making schools, help to stop smoking, and preparing young people for work

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Plan to allow profit-making companies to run free schools, a stop smoking service for young people in Wales, and a Department for Education scheme to get young people into work, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Khyra Ishaq, rising care applications, and childcare in France

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Khyra Ishaq's family attempt to sue Birmingham City Council, Cafcass figures on care applications, and the childcare minister Elizabeth Truss praises the European early years sector, all in the news today.

The 2013 Report: The year ahead for children and young people

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

| CYP Now

The coming year will present a profound set of challenges for all those who work with children, young people and families. CYP Now's 2013 Report aims to pinpoint these issues through a range of professionals. They put their cases for what must happen in policy and practice

Charities must be able to give voice to the voiceless

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Are children's charities too afraid now to ‘bite the hand that feeds'?

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Many children's charities rely on public funds, raising fears about their independence in defending the interests of service users in austere times. But plans are afoot for the voluntary sector to speak with a clearer voice

Martin Narey receives knighthood as New Year honours recognise sector's work

News

Thursday, January 3, 2013

| CYP Now

The government adoption adviser Martin Narey received a knighthood in the New Year's honors list, among more than 150 people recognised for their work with children and young people.

Scottish criminal justice system ‘punishes vulnerable'

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

| CYP Now

Children who have been excluded from school by the age of 12 are four times more likely to spend time in prison in adulthood, according to research by Edinburgh University.

Daily roundup: Primary league tables, diagnosing cleft palate, and health inequalities in Scotland

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

| CYP Now

Annual primary school rankings, concerns over late diagnosis of cleft palate in babies, and a report warns the poorest children in Scotland will die 13 years before their peers, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Doncaster resignation, riots report, and GCSE legal challenge

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

| CYP Now

The chair of Doncaster's Children's Board steps down, post-riots report calls for improved youth engagement in Tottenham, and the GCSE grade boundaries argument reaches court, all in the news today.

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Do we need more men?

Councils aim to share burden of reform

Labour plots vision for youth

Early intervention under threat as biggest cuts strike deprived areas

Daily roundup: Benefit cuts, Whitehall wrangling over childcare, and snow hits schools across the UK

Daily roundup: Electronic tags, 'train surfing', and a new training agency for teachers

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

Youth Contract to help more young people

Daily roundup: Safeguarding in Kent, Pickles on learning English, and the pupil premium in London

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

Daily roundup: Academies, gender-related abortion, and 'safe-havens' for bullied children

Daily roundup: Profit-making schools, help to stop smoking, and preparing young people for work

Daily roundup: Khyra Ishaq, rising care applications, and childcare in France

The 2013 Report: The year ahead for children and young people

Charities must be able to give voice to the voiceless

Are children's charities too afraid now to ‘bite the hand that feeds'?

Martin Narey receives knighthood as New Year honours recognise sector's work

Scottish criminal justice system ‘punishes vulnerable'

Daily roundup: Primary league tables, diagnosing cleft palate, and health inequalities in Scotland

Daily roundup: Doncaster resignation, riots report, and GCSE legal challenge

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