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<img alt="Council drops plan for youth services mutual" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/08318b86-ed1b-49cb-8c57-593ea5d910cf/3/ScreenShot20180628at125430-320x198.png" />
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Hartlepool Council has confirmed that it had been considering setting up a mutual to deliver youth services, but decided not to proceed.
"There had been previous proposals to look at a youth services...
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Published: 27 June 2018
<img alt="Growing number of children at risk of multiple dangers, charity warns" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/a6505042-f29f-4ece-9a07-777633643266/2/javedkhanbarnardosbyalexdeverill-320x198.jpg" />
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A survey of 224 of the charity's service managers representing more than 370 services found that 58.6 per cent had supported a young person involved in crime in the past year. Of those, nearly three quarters...
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cypn
Published: 27 June 2018
<img alt="Daily roundup 27 June: Foreign languages, online game, and forces families" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/8a9b5834-e7e9-4e6d-befb-1fc0a0d8a974/1/31595567b7d8e074e51052bd8c5dc19ejpg-320x198.jpg" />
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Children from poorer backgrounds in England are increasingly likely to miss out on learning a foreign language, a report has suggested. The BBC reports that some teachers blame new tougher GCSEs for putting...
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cypn
Published: 26 June 2018
<img alt="Administration frustrates personal advisers' work with care leavers, study finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/1ca36cec-9af2-4bb9-8590-0c858f51d161/2/leavingcare-320x198.jpg" />
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A report by social investment organisation Social Finance found that just under a quarter of personal advisers' time is taken up by administrative tasks, including updating case management records and...
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cypn
Published: 26 June 2018
<img alt="Labour pledges direct funding to providers of 30 hours childcare offer" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/ad8e7ea2-3936-4e3b-bbe8-06f5fd6b20ee/4/TracyBrabinMP-320x198.jpg" />
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The party's shadow early years minister Tracy Brabin said the change would be part of efforts to simplify the overly complex childcare funding system, were Labour to get elected.
"We'd shift to supply-side...
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cypn
Published: 26 June 2018
<img alt="Daily roundup 26 June: Early development, upskirting, and tablets" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/7d211635-6f20-441c-b1e5-c27c9bd96e46/3/earlylearningbyluciecarlier-320x198.jpg" />
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Schools are to pilot improved measures to support children's early development in language and vocabulary in reception year, it has been announced. The Department for Education said that from September,...
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cypn
Published: 26 June 2018
<img alt="Children fleeing domestic violence 'forced to sleep rough'" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/1fd218a9-20e9-491b-aed3-ad562edaccd7/2/homelessnessalexdeverill-320x198.JPG" />
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A report by Women's Aid, analysing the experiences of 264 women supported by its No Woman Turned Away project in the 12 months to January 2018, found that 121 women (45.8 per cent) fleeing domestic abuse...
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cypn
Published: 26 June 2018
<img alt="Timpson warns of 'crossing the line' on children's services funding" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b5fa587f-3a8b-46ef-9cd9-2b90c1859043/3/EdwardTimpsonUKParliament-320x198.jpg" />
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In an interview with CYP Now, Timpson, who was children's minister for five years prior to losing his parliamentary seat at the June 2017 general election, said that economic circumstances for children's...
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cypn
Published: 26 June 2018
<img alt="Inspectors criticise quality of SEND support in Leicester" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/c461ec3d-9228-4f5b-a396-a99ad1d3e167/3/Leicester2-320x198.png" />
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Following a visit that took place across April and May, inspectors described EHC plans as "weak" and found they contain inaccurate information that is "not fit for purpose".
The lack of accuracy in...
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cypn
Published: 25 June 2018