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<img alt="MPs urge creation of new department for children" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/88f7a0ad-0f84-4234-ab94-000c35d130ae/3/800pxOfficialportraitofBaronessBenjamincrop2-320x198.jpg" />
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A report by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on a Fit and Health Childhood found that attempts to reform child mental health support are impeded by a lack of collaboration across government departments....
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Published: 25 June 2018
<img alt="Daily roundup 25 June: Energy drinks, psychotherapy, and gangs" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/363ec3e4-48ce-42f1-9f86-5f82f9635d4d/1/picturemorguefile-320x198.png" />
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Children will be banned from buying energy drinks under measures announced by the government that aim to halve the number of obese children by 2030. The Times reports that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt...
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Published: 25 June 2018
<img alt="Young people 'central to government loneliness strategy'" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/7fc6026b-33c5-4d86-9416-9116da0f6a2a/1/a83a95aeca06088b552a532b5961f7b2gif-320x198.gif" />
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Plans to launch a loneliness strategy, which is being led by youth minister Tracey Crouch who is the ministerial lead for loneliness, were first announced in January amid concerns that increasing numbers...
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Published: 22 June 2018
<img alt="Youth groups receive Home Office funding to tackle extremism" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/73a325c7-9194-4e8c-9e4d-141618ff0b1f/3/morguefilefootball-320x198.jpg" />
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The groups, covering sports including boxing, cricket, football, table tennis and netball, will receive the money to create year-long sports-based schemes to help those who may be vulnerable to extremism....
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Published: 22 June 2018
<img alt="Daily roundup 22 June: Mobile phones, abuse inquiry, and gaming disorder" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/1da2f990-8ef3-473d-a2e0-e50104e2bcdb/4/amandaspeilman-320x198.jpg" />
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The chief inspector of Ofsted has said she backs head teachers who ban mobile phones to prevent bad behaviour. The BBC reports that Amanda Spielman blamed technology for making "low-level disruption" more...
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Published: 22 June 2018
<img alt="Children's trust 'making positive start', Ofsted finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/5d184815-e6f1-45f2-bae1-1b52f1fd77fd/1/screenshot20150605at16-320x198.png" />
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Sandwell Council launched a children's trust in April to help improve standards in children's services, which were rated as "inadequate" in 2015 and again in January this year following a reinspection....
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Published: 22 June 2018
<img alt="NCS found to account for 95 per cent of government youth service spend" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/f949a8a9-9a95-4659-bc82-4091c1382585/1/ncstrust-320x198.jpg" />
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Statistics provided by youth minister Tracey Crouch in response to a question from Labour MP Cat Smith show that in the four years from 2014/15 to 2017/18, the Office for Civil Society spent £667.88m on...
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Published: 22 June 2018
<img alt="Cafcass chief executive Anthony Douglas to step down" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/2ff2ef55-5906-454d-b79c-0d72020bcec2/4/a2b55cafd582ad82c44bf796add5e2fdgif-320x198.gif" />
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Douglas joined Cafcass - the Child and Family Court Advisory and Support Service - in September 2004 from Suffolk County Council, where he was director of social care and health.
"My job at Cafcass...
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Published: 21 June 2018
<img alt="SEN employment initiative set to expand" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/662e948f-46b2-454b-b8dc-fbda5fce3e91/1/senalexdeverill270612-320x198.jpg" />
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The initiative, called Project SEARCH is open to final-year school students with special educational needs, who undertake a year-long placement at a host business or organisation.
All students receive...
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Published: 21 June 2018