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<img alt="Domestic abuse bill 'missed chance' to protect children, warns NSPCC" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/638cb5a2-6423-493f-b610-e9bbd81f992b/1/domesticabuseshutterstock-320x198.jpg" />
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The NSPCC says the draft Domestic Abuse Bill, published today, has missed an opportunity to recognise all children as victims in law.
If it were to include under-16s in its statutory definition, children...
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cypn
Published: 21 January 2019
<img alt="Early years innovation receives Harvard University boost" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/5455d05f-df62-40be-b322-8a03a54e4b09/2/MerleDavies-320x198.jpg" />
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The Community Connectors programme hopes to deliver key child development messages to parents of around 2,000 children aged under three.
The connectors are local community members employed by the Blackpool...
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cypn
Published: 21 January 2019
<img alt="Council's children's services to receive entire social care top-up" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/d1be313b-a8c7-4589-b6c1-8c3708da5f36/3/Capture-320x198.png" />
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Liverpool City Council wants to invest £7.7m in hiring an additional 160 social care staff.
The aim is to reduce caseloads, which were criticised by Ofsted, and improve its early help services over...
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cypn
Published: 21 January 2019
Schools will be able to apply for grants to take poorer pupils on overseas exchanges.
bbc
Published: 19 January 2019
Emergency services were called to Dunfermline High School after 10 students became unwell.
bbc
Published: 18 January 2019
Welsh will no longer be classed as a second language in English-medium schools, under new proposals.
bbc
Published: 18 January 2019
<img alt="Blackpool children's services downgraded to 'inadequate'" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/636215fe-9bba-48e1-bc3c-80256c84af55/1/blackpooltower22-320x198.jpg" />
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Inspectors visited Blackpool Council in November and December last year for its first full inspection of children's services since being rated as "requires improvement" in 2014.
Since then the quality...
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cypn
Published: 18 January 2019
<img alt="Parents' anger over SEND failures in Swindon" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/2c0f693a-6fc9-4b41-b79f-4f6a5c05ab34/3/ScreenShot20180518at121246-320x198.png" />
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A joint inspection by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission found a raft of failures in SEND support across the Wiltshire town, which have left parents and carers "upset, angry and concerned", according...
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cypn
Published: 18 January 2019
Suzanne Harrison had a four-year sexual relationship with a female pupil.
bbc
Published: 17 January 2019