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General Election 2024: Next government urged to prioritise children as voters go to polls

Thursday, July 4, 2024

| CYP Now

As voters across the UK go to the polls, children’s sector leaders and campaigners are strengthening calls for the next government to focus on young people.

Out of area care placements make support ‘more challenging’, warns youth justice inspectorate

News

Thursday, July 4, 2024

| CYP Now

Children in care being placed far from home due to a lack of local placements is hindering the support youth justice services (YJS) can offer, according to the probation inspectorate.

Children’s charities on issues the next government must prioritise

Features

Monday, July 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Improved special educational needs support, expansion of social prescribing to boost youth mental health and investment in health visiting services are key policy asks sought by children’s charities, finds Amrit Virdi.

Labour announces plans to tackle sale of knives to minors after death of 16-year-old

News

Thursday, June 27, 2024

| CYP Now

The Labour Party has announced plans to strengthen laws around the sale and possession of weapons in a bid to reduce knife crime among young people if elected on 4 July.

Breaking the offending cycle

Analysis

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Expert examines the evidence for specialist staff to support neurodiverse young people in custody.

Longfield calls for new government poverty unit ahead of general election

News

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has called for the next government to establish a poverty unit sitting within Downing Street as part of a 10-point plan to halve child poverty by 2029.

The hits and misses of a ‘patchy’ parliament for children’s services

Features

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| CYP Now

The past five years saw a pandemic, Brexit fallout, the cost-of-living crisis and regular political upheaval. For children’s services, there was progress and missed opportunities. Experts pick the key developments.