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<img alt="Zahawi criticises &#39;faux outrage&#39; over 30 hours childcare eligibility" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/5fc4aed4-71d6-4307-ae03-580ab1fcb4d1/3/ScreenShot20180710at113600-320x198.png" /> <p> Under the offer, which was launched last September, a couple earning £200,000 between them are able to access 30 hours of free childcare, as long as neither are individually earning more than £100,000.... </p>

<img alt="Support unit for family drug and alcohol courts faces closure" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/4a6623d7-cfd3-4b4a-aef1-485c99c807f9/3/domesticviolencedimitrimashutterstockcom-320x198.jpg" /> <p> The unit supports the work of the 10 family drug and alcohol courts (FDACs), which bring the judiciary and multi-agency services together to help substance-misusing parents involved in care proceedings... </p>

<img alt="Daily roundup 9 July: Child arrests, disability, and &#39;brewing storm&#39;" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b9c708d1-927f-4cf7-b740-c8643d76a6ae/2/3b663c900a8aca0c066774252c54fde9jpg-320x198.jpg" /> <p> Nearly 300 children under the age of 12 were arrested for carrying a weapon in London over the last three years, figures show. The Evening Standard reports that Metropolitan Police figures from 2015 to... </p>

<img alt="DfE warns of uphill struggle to secure children&#39;s services funding" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b8e3c7d2-1f43-4fcb-87a2-c56d66c3d682/1/c3be8fbee29f0ff6992be087835887dfjpg-320x198.jpg" /> <p> Graham Archer, director of children's social care, improvement and learning at the DfE, told delegates at the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) annual conference in Manchester that... </p>

<img alt="Inspectors criticise quality of SEND support in North Somerset" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/674745d7-5c64-448a-8f54-5e6aa9db19fa/4/townhall-320x198.jpeg" /> <p> The joint inspection team, from Ofsted and health watchdog the Care Quality Commission, found that council and health services are failing to offer children and their families their legal entitlement of... </p>

<img alt="Daily roundup 6 July: Sign language, work experience, and bin men" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/f48ba65d-947c-4bd4-b4e9-11bd650f4c47/4/DanielJillings1-320x198.jpg" /> <p> The family of a deaf boy from Suffolk has launched a campaign to challenge the government's "discriminatory" decision to delay the introduction of a GCSE in British Sign Language (BSL) and is calling for... </p>