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<img alt="MPs slam Hinds' 'unwise' role in social mobility chief appointment" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/217d7615-4f35-4f6c-9706-639664a53a89/4/ScreenShot20180116at113603-320x198.png" />
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In a stinging rebuke of Hinds' actions in the appointment of Dame Martina Milburn to the role, which was confirmed today, the education select committee said that his decision to personally ask her to...
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Published: 13 July 2018
<img alt="Council retains control of "inadequate" children's services" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/ffdfae59-6c67-4558-ad08-7f4cf11d1ee9/1/newcountyofficesdsc7117-320x198.JPG" />
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Buckinghamshire County Council's children's services was rated as "inadequate" overall by Ofsted in 2014 and again in January this year following a re-inspection in which the council's attempts to improve...
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Published: 13 July 2018
<img alt="Government reinstates legal aid for lone migrant children" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/59191d4d-819b-4239-9127-32c2efa04932/3/AsylumseekerMDursonShutterstock-320x198.jpg" />
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Under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, legal aid for non-asylum immigration claims made by lone migrant children and young people was axed in 2013.
This left young people struggling...
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Published: 12 July 2018
<img alt="Hospital appoints youth worker for kidney disease patients" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/80a29d5a-4718-4ae9-9fc5-cb74c5a67cc3/3/Kidneyyouthworker-320x198.jpg" />
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The paediatric nephrology department at Southampton Children's Hospital has appointed Andy Beeson as its first youth worker for patients with chronic kidney disease.
Beeson will work alongside clinical...
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Published: 12 July 2018
<img alt="Spending on pupils drops by eight per cent, says IFS" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b8476f0f-df97-4017-b40b-5050c8806a8e/3/SimoneJoshandfamilysongoingtoschoolwithbigbus2012-320x198.jpg" />
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) research looked at total school spending per pupil between 2009/10 and 2017/18 and found there had been an eight per cent cut in real terms.
While in 2009 the...
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Published: 12 July 2018
<img alt="Trials of controversial baseline checks to start in September" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/7282718b-ce6e-4f6c-bd8a-94448ecac24d/1/ruthfryreceptionteacherpreprepreceptionclass-320x198.jpg" />
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The National Foundation for Educational Research (NfER) says that from the start of the next academic year a sample of schools will help it gather feedback from teachers and children about the testing...
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Published: 11 July 2018
<img alt="YOTs link up with university to help tackle reoffending" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/de6dcd77-fc8f-40c8-bd07-4eaa6fdff0b2/1/984486fe958c1f10cdd1d5c3fd8a89fdjpg-320x198.jpg" />
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The move will see the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) work with five YOTs in North West England - Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Cumbria, Lancashire and Liverpool - to support them on a range...
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Published: 11 July 2018
<img alt="Professionals often failing to spot sexual abuse of boys, Barnardo's warns" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/0ca06115-13ce-4a79-8db8-885ecdd0ef56/2/LEGALfresnel6AdobeStock-320x198.jpg" />
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Research carried out by Barnardo's, funded by the Home Office, has found that professionals can have difficulty in identifying and engaging boys and young men. It found that behaviour that might trigger...
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Published: 11 July 2018
<img alt="Vulnerable children at risk due to social care 'postcode lottery', MPs warn" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/e5c6582e-524a-42e5-ae26-02139f57adee/3/ProfileTimLoughton2-320x198.jpg" />
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The All Party Parliamentary Group for Children (APPGC) report raises concerns about varied thresholds across councils for a range of support for children at risk of harm or in need of help.
The report...
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Published: 11 July 2018