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This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Education, Standards and Effectiveness Officer for SEND, Deborah Bowers, for the attention of Headteachers and SENDCo's in all Slough Schools. This includes Colleges, Nurseries, Secondary, Primary and Special Schools.
Published: 25 September 2018
<img alt="Labour to allow councils to take over failing academies" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/edd5c8bb-60d8-4e30-8668-6dd652e82719/1/classroom-320x198.jpg" />
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Speaking at the party's annual conference in Liverpool, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said if it gains power it will tackle the problem of failing academy trusts, a situation she said results...
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Published: 25 September 2018
<img alt="Virgin poised to lose £23.8m child health contract" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/55640af7-31d3-4063-be85-0f2afee153be/1/healthvisitorshutterstock-320x198.jpg" />
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The private healthcare firm currently holds the contract to provide children's health and wellbeing services in Devon and Torbay.
But following a tender process, the two clinical commissioning groups...
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Published: 25 September 2018
<img alt="Children's services 'fail to support children of disabled parents' " src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/cac6722e-5051-4a28-a52d-455b4461e673/3/484665892062d4dbb8c17fe028a65441-320x198.jpg" />
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A study of disabled parents who had all been referred, or self-referred, to children's social care, found support offered by the services did not aim to support parents to care for their own children,...
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Published: 25 September 2018
Second year university students give advice to the 2018 freshers.
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Published: 25 September 2018
A small debt for unpaid council tax multiplied many times when Nigel Hurst was declared bankrupt - and caused him to take his life.
bbc
Published: 25 September 2018
<img alt="Quarter of CAMHS transformation funding not reaching frontline services" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/3d567ea8-9bf7-4e4b-a23b-5ee715e580b3/1/mentalhealthdepressionnewscastonline-320x198.jpg" />
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As part of the Future in Mind initiative the government set aside an extra £1.4bn for the period up to 2020 in order to improve child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), which they are responsible...
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Published: 24 September 2018
Universities including Aberdeen, St Andrews and Chester have introduced blocks where alcohol is banned.
bbc
Published: 24 September 2018
<img alt="Labour pledges support for victims of domestic abuse" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/be50d190-08b3-4960-92ff-38afeb1be710/3/segn0zj7-320x198.jpg" />
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Speaking at the Labour Party Women's conference, shadow minister for women and equalities Dawn Butler said the move could help save the lives of more than 100 victims a year, and address its impact on...
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Published: 24 September 2018