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General Election 2024: Key manifesto pledges for youth justice

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

The opening of the UK’s first secure school at the end of the most recent government’s term marks a significant shift in the youth justice landscape.

Third of parents at risk of having babies taken into care have learning difficulties, research finds

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

One in three parents at risk of having their baby taken into care have a learning disability or difficulty, analysis of 200 care proceedings has found.

Labour Party manifesto: boosting school-based support and votes for 16s among pledges

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Reducing child poverty, investing in school-based careers and mental health support for young people and giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote are among the Labour Party’s pledges in their manifesto for the 2024 general election.

Benefit rules locking 19,000 young carers out of financial help, charity warns

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

A charity is calling for an overhaul of benefit rules which are forcing thousands of young carers to choose between their education and receiving financial help.

General Election 2024: Key manifesto pledges for health

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Children’s mental health is a key issue up for debate in the lead up to the general election.

General Election 2024: Key manifesto pledges for education

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Teacher recruitment and support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are among key issues the sector is calling for the next government to address.

General Election 2024: Key manifesto pledges for youth work

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

The Conservative Party’s pledge to introduce national service for 18-year-olds opened the election campaign with questions over politicians’ commitment to youth services from the sector.

Children's services leaders question plans to refer child strip search cases

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Children’s services leaders have questioned Home Office plans for the police to make a referral to children’s social care every time they perform an intimate search of a child.

General Election 2024: Key manifesto pledges for early years

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Access to funded childcare hours has been a key battleground for the three main parties in the lead up to the election.

General Election 2024: Key manifesto pledges for children’s social care

News

Thursday, June 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authority leaders and children’s sector organisations have pleaded with whoever forms the next government to properly invest in children’s social care services.

Project for adults with learning disabilities to be extended to care leavers

News

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

| CYP Now

A social care service that offers foster care support to adults with learning disabilities is being made available to care leavers.

‘At least' £70mn of early years funding being left unspent by councils

News

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

| CYP Now

An investigation of early years entitlement funding has found at least £70 million is not being spent by local authorities.

Entrepreneur to lead commission on children's access to play

News

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

| CYP Now

An independent commission has been launched to investigate the state of children’s play in the UK and put forward recommendations for the next government on how to improve facilities and access to provision.

Conservative Party manifesto: restrictions on children's social media access among raft of pledges

News

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

| CYP Now

Creating more residential care places, restricting children’s access to social media and boosting post-16 vocational training opportunities are some of the key policies affecting children and young people in the Conservative Party’s general election manifesto.

Commissioner calls for election campaign debates for children

News

Monday, June 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The Children’s Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza has called on every party leader to hold a debate for children during the election campaign as latest polling shows more than half of young people think politicians don’t consider their views.

Liberal Democrats pledge investment in disadvantaged children's education

News

Monday, June 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The Liberal Democrats have pledged a series of policies to narrow the attainment gap for disadvantaged children and boost educational opportunities for young people in their manifesto for the 2024 general election.

Labour pledges 3,300 new nurseries in existing primary schools

News

Monday, June 10, 2024

| CYP Now

The Labour Party has pledged to create more than 100,000 new nursery places, many of them in deprived areas, by using empty spaces in primary schools.

Resources to support young people interested in volunteering

News

Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

CYP Now looks at resources to support projects and organisations to involve young volunteers.

Council’s youth justice service praised over substance abuse work

News

Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

The work of a local authority youth justice service in supporting young people with substance abuse has been praised by inspectors.

Significant increase in children living with vulnerabilities, DfE figures reveal

News

Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

There has been an 82% increase in council funded alternative provision (AP) placements for children not in mainstream school and a 15.4% rise in free school meal (FSM) eligibility since 2018/19, government figures show.

What does it cost to care for children and young people?

Blogs

Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

When I was growing up next to the power station in Widnes my Nan, who left us in May 2007 used to say, ‘kindness costs nothing and a smile is free’.

General Election 2024: Investment in children and families must replace raft of reviews

Blogs

Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

The new government will have critical choices to make about spending priorities. Investing in children and young people should be top of the list.

Children’s services pressures driving £6.2bn funding gap, LGA warns

News

Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

Local authorities face a £6.2 billion funding gap over the next two years due in part to rising pressures on children’s services, new research from the Local Government Association (LGA) reveals.

Children’s minister unable to confirm child benefit allowance levels

News

Friday, June 7, 2024

| CYP Now

Children’s minister David Johnston has come under fire after struggling to confirm the current child benefit allowance.

Young people urge next government to back ‘urgent' social care reforms

News

Thursday, June 6, 2024

| CYP Now

A group of more than 70 children in care and care leavers have written an open letter to the leaders of all political parties ahead of July’s general election calling on them to back reform of the care system.

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