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<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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cypn
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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cypn
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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cypn
Published: 25 September 2018
Second year university students give advice to the 2018 freshers.
bbc
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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cypn
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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cypn
Published: 24 September 2018
<img alt="Councils seek urgent assurances on controversial 'mythbuster' guidance" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/6c4ca484-fe40-492c-8467-3949c786b267/3/AnntoinetteBrambleLGA-320x198.jpg" />
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The document, Children's Social Care statutory Guidance Myth Busting, which appears on the government's social care innovation website, highlights a number of elements of statutory guidance that "act as...
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cypn
Published: 24 September 2018