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<img alt="One in 10 home-schooled children 'known to social services'" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/bd5d478e-b6c9-4448-854f-131ebfa814ee/4/PololiaAdobeStock-320x198.jpg" />
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Based on responses from 106 councils, the Association of Directors of Children's Services found that 11 per cent of home-schooled children are known to children's social care either currently or historically....
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Published: 15 November 2018
<img alt="Pace of children being taken into care accelerates" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/cafd1963-efe4-4c96-b874-1952bccb2f51/2/FamilysupportAltanakaAdobeStock-320x198.jpg" />
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Department for Education statistics published today show that as of 31 March this year, a total of 75,420 were in care, up from 72,590 in 2017 - an increase of 3.9 per cent. Last year the pace of increase...
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Published: 15 November 2018
<img alt="Child criminal exploitation 'still not properly understood', Ofsted warns" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/35327e60-a0ef-4186-9a54-f222a54e925f/2/chilternviewchildrenshomesilhouettecreditrobinhammond-320x198.jpg" />
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A thematic report by Ofsted, HMI Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, the Care Quality Commission and HMI Probation, found that much has been done by many local partnerships across the country to deal...
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Published: 14 November 2018
<img alt="Nurseries '£437m out of pocket' as a result of Budget" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/aa6735f8-e5f3-41fd-80a3-dce9e4a1900f/3/NurseryNDNAdglimagesFotolia-320x198.jpg" />
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Analysis by the National Day Nursery Association estimates that last month's Budget will cost each private nursery an average of £42,000 in the financial year from April 2019.
The increase in the national...
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Published: 14 November 2018
<img alt="MPs demand early intervention drive and children's centres action" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/60598ac7-e4bb-4a72-99e7-bc1219c56815/2/childrenscentrelucycarlier-320x198.jpg" />
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A report published by the science and technology select committee calls on government to provide more funding to local authorities as part of a coherent approach on early intervention, on the grounds that...
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Published: 14 November 2018
<img alt="DfE funds Scouts to launch early years provision" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/7ef8b5ca-5fdd-441a-bb62-1590a7f3b8d6/2/Scouts051838548-320x198.jpg" />
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The inititiative is being financed through the DfE's through the Early Years Disadvantage VCS Grants programme, which is worth £6.5m for 2018/19. It is one of a number of early years projects that government...
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Published: 14 November 2018
<img alt="Government intervenes after Ofsted finds serious child protection weaknesses at council" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b262933f-7fb1-4b87-ac08-8e3265f7f164/1/northamptonshirecountycouncil-320x198.png" />
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Education Secretary Damian Hinds and the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government James Brokenshire have written to the leader of Northamptonshire County Council after a "focused"...
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Published: 13 November 2018
<img alt="UK Youth Parliament to campaign for action on knife crime" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/054e1331-673b-47f6-b678-cf578f05a65c/1/ScreenShot20181112at165632-320x198.png" />
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The decision came following the UK Youth Parliament's 10th annual House of Commons debate chaired by the House of Commons Speaker John Bercow MP.
Knife crime was last month declared as the top concern...
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Published: 12 November 2018
<img alt="Home Office announces £18m for youth projects to tackle serious violence " src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/cb0b9854-517d-4517-82e7-eed5bdc21028/1/workwithyoungoffender-320x198.gif" />
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The Early Intervention Youth Fund is intended to help youth workers prevent children and young people becoming involved in criminal activity, such as being drawn into "county lines" crime where gangs from...
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Published: 12 November 2018