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<img alt="Young people distribute £180,000 to youth projects" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/bae7ce76-98ed-4cbf-894d-e60497d4db3f/3/ScreenShot20180917at115406-320x198.png" />
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A panel of 13 young people selected 11 projects to receive funding after a series of interviews involving 21 shortlisted bids for Jack Petchey Foundation grants.
The funding has been handed out to mark...
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Published: 14 September 2018
<img alt="Inspectors criticise lack of progress on SEND reforms" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/fa61e892-8eb5-4eba-859d-89afaea18cf6/3/SENDJarenWicklundAdobeStock-320x198.jpg" />
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A joint inspection team from Ofsted and health watchdog the Care Quality Commission, found that services in the area have made too little progress in implementing SEND reforms since 2014.
Although leaders...
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Published: 14 September 2018
<img alt="Generation of young carers 'neglected by society'" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/235b45c3-7c62-425e-bae1-e75fd47a9442/3/ScreenShot20180125at111828-320x198.png" />
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Carers Trust said figures gathered following a survey give an "incredibly worrying sense of the scale of this issue for the first time in a decade", adding that they "blow all previous figures out of the...
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Published: 14 September 2018
<img alt="Children's mental health services 'turning away cannabis-related cases' " src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/ab16e129-f87a-4e10-8ed4-6697de809755/3/blurcannabiscloseup606506-320x198.jpg" />
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The report by drugs policy think-tank Volteface found that shrinking resources in community mental health provision is creating intense competition for support, with conditions such as eating disorders...
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Published: 13 September 2018
<img alt="Ofsted calls for action on assessments at 'inadequate' council" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/8956e20b-c159-47a3-b6af-ab777ba819ee/4/towerhamletsshutterstock-320x198.jpg" />
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Ofsted's latest monitoring visit of Tower Hamlets children's services, which it rated as "inadequate" last year, found that in June 160 children did not have an updated assessment - representing more than...
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Published: 13 September 2018
<img alt="Care applications fall 5.7 per cent over two years" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/7229d5f2-1eea-4932-8b2f-9cfe0ef433f3/2/cafcasspetercraneposedbymodels-320x198.jpg" />
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Figures published by Cafcass show that in August 2018, Cafcass received a total of 1,179 new care applications. This figure is 5.1 per cent lower than August 2017.
So far in the first five months of...
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Published: 13 September 2018
<img alt="Gypsy children suffering racism in schools, MPs told" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/15202236-5497-40b9-a510-def588ade4f6/2/travellerstomcampbell-320x198.jpg" />
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At a women and equalities select committee hearing on educational inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities, MPs heard that poor attendance was the key reason for the low educational...
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Published: 13 September 2018
<img alt="Four in 10 providers see fall in profits due to 30 hours childcare initiative" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b4db5f07-addd-4e1d-984a-7b94caaaab1f/2/preschoollearningalliance-320x198.jpg" />
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Research conducted for the Department for Education by Frontier Economics and the University of East London found that among more than 1,700 providers across 12 local authority areas, 39 per cent had experienced...
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Published: 12 September 2018
<img alt="Educational psychologists demand UK-wide smacking ban" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/6c39a661-d03c-4b05-b7f6-cd61d057f4d1/1/neglect-320x198.jpg" />
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The Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP) said that although corporal punishment was initially banned in state schools in 1986, with a full ban in place in all schools in all parts of the UK by...
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Published: 12 September 2018