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<img alt="Councils set to 'trailblaze' projects to tackle child obesity" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/27ea2039-a361-4d97-9d87-5fd914ca2617/2/pexelsphoto1301373-320x198.jpg" />
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Public health minister Steve Brine, speaking at a Local Government Association (LGA) conference on obesity, said a Department of Health trailblazer scheme, delivered in partnership with the LGA, would...
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Published: 26 September 2018
<img alt="Girlguiding defends controversial transgender policy" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/9bfe7fdd-35c3-461f-939d-c73ad6d41bd8/2/girlguiding-320x198.jpg" />
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The youth organisation released a statement yesterday (Tuesday) saying its decision to admit children and adults who identify as women does not put other female members at risk.
However, a campaign...
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Published: 26 September 2018
<img alt="Youth workers agree two-year pay deal" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/564a6a19-d752-475f-a9ff-7fbb2f6f1551/1/ntiyouthsainsbury19rgb-320x198.JPG" />
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The National Education Union, the University and College Union, Unison and Unite, which jointly negotiate on behalf of more than 10,000 youth and community workers across England & Wales confirmed details...
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Published: 26 September 2018
<img alt="Corbyn to announce 'radical expansion' of free childcare" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/0b8fc412-2652-416f-bd75-12268c947f10/4/jeremycorbyn-320x198.jpg" />
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Corbyn will use his speech tomorrow at the annual Labour Party Conference to set out plans for 30 hours of high-quality, "genuinely" free childcare to be available to all two-, three- and four-year-olds,...
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cypn
Published: 25 September 2018
<img alt="Schools 'unsure how to react to LGBT families'" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/643285b0-e385-4fc1-af21-e9b05b480778/3/PictureBrettSaylesPexels-320x198.jpg" />
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Research, involving interviews with 26 LGBTQI parents and 19 children, found that existing support often centred on issues around bullying, rather than efforts to improve inclusiveness. The study, conducted...
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Published: 25 September 2018
<img alt="In the new edition of CYP Now: SEND Special, tackling youth violence, and DfE mythbuster" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/8c3d604c-3f62-40c4-9819-4294a9e77aae/3/InThisIssueCYP250918-320x198.jpg" />
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The 12-page special report includes practice examples on a council-run early years quality mark for childcare settings delivering the highest quality of SEND support; an award-winning school's speech and...
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cypn
Published: 25 September 2018
<img alt="Labour to allow councils to take over failing academies" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/edd5c8bb-60d8-4e30-8668-6dd652e82719/1/classroom-320x198.jpg" />
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Speaking at the party's annual conference in Liverpool, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said if it gains power it will tackle the problem of failing academy trusts, a situation she said results...
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Published: 25 September 2018
<img alt="Virgin poised to lose £23.8m child health contract" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/55640af7-31d3-4063-be85-0f2afee153be/1/healthvisitorshutterstock-320x198.jpg" />
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The private healthcare firm currently holds the contract to provide children's health and wellbeing services in Devon and Torbay.
But following a tender process, the two clinical commissioning groups...
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cypn
Published: 25 September 2018
<img alt="Children's services 'fail to support children of disabled parents' " src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/cac6722e-5051-4a28-a52d-455b4461e673/3/484665892062d4dbb8c17fe028a65441-320x198.jpg" />
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A study of disabled parents who had all been referred, or self-referred, to children's social care, found support offered by the services did not aim to support parents to care for their own children,...
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Published: 25 September 2018