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<img alt="Brexit and poverty major threats to child health, warn doctors" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/2270c619-1699-40b0-862d-d139d8a203ae/1/p2thumb9jpg5314-320x198.jpg" />
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In a report measuring improvements in child health, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) says that it is "disappointed and gravely concerned" by a lack of progress by the government...
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cypn
Published: 29 January 2019
<img alt="Half of boys in YOIs are from BME backgrounds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/a70233ee-8d76-4580-abb8-19af838718dd/1/yoilockphiladams030512-320x198.jpg" />
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HM Inspectorate of Prisons' annual survey of children in custody, for 2017/18, found that 51 per cent of boys in YOIs identify themselves as being from a BME background, compared with 48 per cent when...
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cypn
Published: 29 January 2019
Two part-time teachers take an enormous dinosaur costume into schools to bring learning alive.
bbc
Published: 29 January 2019
Facebook's popularity among children fell during 2018, according to the media regulator Ofcom.
bbc
Published: 29 January 2019
<img alt="The future of early intervention: roundtable debate" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/e8a554a3-dfc7-4eb4-8161-b30287d9868a/4/KathyMarriottPicturebyTomAskewMiller-320x198.jpg" />
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Click here to download the full debate as a PDF
The urgency to reduce pressures on children's services has never been greater. Research published by the Association of Directors of Children's Services...
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cypn
Published: 29 January 2019
A large study suggests excessive use may slow a toddler's development in language and sociability.
bbc
Published: 28 January 2019
<img alt="Charity receives £6.65m to boost disadvantaged children's access to sport" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/1676fd98-aef5-43f3-91a0-9b711bc26d41/3/StreetGamesimage-320x198.jpg" />
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The charity Street Games, which supports young people through sport, has received £6.65m in funding from Sport England to develop opportunities for physical activity in 50 of England's most deprived areas....
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cypn
Published: 28 January 2019
This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Service Lead, People, Surjit Nagra, on behalf of the Local Government Association's Principal Negotiating Officer, Selena Lansley (FCIPD). This is for the attention of Slough Schools.
Published: 28 January 2019
<img alt="Action needed over 'significantly weak' SEND provision in Sheffield" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/772b98a9-8e9e-4672-aae5-96d75037e6eb/2/legalclassroom-320x198.jpg" />
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Sheffield City Council has not implemented the 2014 disability and SEND reforms consistently and swiftly enough, according to the report by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission.
This has resulted...
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cypn
Published: 28 January 2019