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Published: 5 February 2019
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The National Crime Agency's Operation Stovewood, which is the UK's biggest investigation into child sexual exploitation, is looking at exploitation and abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
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Published: 5 February 2019
<img alt="DCSs warn of bidding wars and rising prices for residential care" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/67d3eb7e-9645-4493-b490-29b42fee5f3f/1/childincaremorguefile-320x198.jpg" />
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At a House of Commons public accounts committee session MPs heard from two directors of children's services on the increasing costs to find suitable places for children with complex problems who need specialist...
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Published: 5 February 2019
The money from David Harding is the biggest single British donation to a UK university.
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Published: 5 February 2019
Teenagers say that a change in tuition fees could decide whether or not they go to university.
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Published: 5 February 2019
More than 600 people a day leave their jobs because of the demands of being a carer for a relative.
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Published: 5 February 2019
<img alt="Council accused of 'misleading' public over children's centre closures" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/e7c1e5e3-c5a2-416a-94d6-ba51f48f96bd/3/NorfolkCountyCouncilPictureGoogle-320x198.png" />
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Norfolk County Council last month announced its decision to reconfigure provision via a new Early Childhood and Family Service, to be run from just 15 children's centres across the county.
Under the...
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Published: 4 February 2019
<img alt="Charities pool resources to improve children's literacy" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/d37ba2a4-04af-4492-b76d-dfd210597c7b/3/Coram-320x198.jpg" />
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Literacy charity Beanstalk is joining children's charity group Coram to "pool resources and expertise to make a positive difference for more children".
Coram Beanstalk aims to provide consistent, one-to-one...
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Published: 4 February 2019
<img alt="Concerns raised over decrease in fostering places" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/13b7f73c-6a85-4a6b-91df-8e86580c5e89/2/080512fostercarermorguefile-320x198.jpg" />
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Some 43,475 households were approved for fostering in 2017/18, down 460 from the previous year, according to the Fostering in England report. Despite a rise in the number children being placed, foster...
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Published: 4 February 2019