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1. Extend mandatory role of health visitors, urges children's commissioner
2. Mental health checks for looked-after children to begin in June 2019...
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cypn
Published: 26 October 2018
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Plans to create a Care Leaver Covenant were first announced in May 2016 by then Prime Minister David Cameron as a way to encourage organisations to offer more support to care leavers in England. It was...
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cypn
Published: 26 October 2018
Landmark package of support announced to help raise aspirations and outcomes for care leavers
d_f_e
Published: 26 October 2018
"When I tell people about my previous life you can see their jaws drop," says 18-year-old Chloe.
bbc
Published: 26 October 2018
Employers and universities want funding changes to reverse a collapse in part-time student numbers.
bbc
Published: 26 October 2018
UK universities which gained from slave trade are asked to pay into fund for ethnic minority students.
bbc
Published: 25 October 2018
<img alt="Knife crime epidemic 'top concern' for young people" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b5684d06-8dbb-4ea7-ab7a-fe34f3649d8f/3/Capture-320x198.png" />
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The British Youth Council, which organises the UK Youth Parliament, said a total of 1,111,580 young people took part in this year's his year's Make Your Mark ballot to decide issues to be debated during...
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cypn
Published: 25 October 2018
Central European University threatens to move most teaching to Vienna amid row over academic freedom.
bbc
Published: 25 October 2018
<img alt="Increase in number of children at risk of abuse and neglect" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/6d1372f2-3a06-4227-8516-c32895108227/2/CuddlingteddybearShutterstock123358282-320x198.jpg" />
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Department for Education statistics show that councils started 68,770 child protection plans in 2018 - the equivalent of 188 a day - up 3.6 per cent on the 66,410 started in 2017.
As of 31 March this...
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cypn
Published: 25 October 2018