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<img alt="Council cuts funding for joint police early help initiative" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/df671c7e-01c4-4f4e-bb97-a4e0a9b7ca94/2/lancashirecountycouncil-320x198.jpg" /> <p> Last week, Lancashire County Council backed proposals to cut £265,000 a year from its early action and safer travel teams despite a public consultation showing that 91 per cent of residents were against... </p>

Education Secretary Damien Hinds is urged to make his mind up on teacher pay rises in England.

<img alt="MPs slam Hinds&#39; &#39;unwise&#39; role in social mobility chief appointment" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/217d7615-4f35-4f6c-9706-639664a53a89/4/ScreenShot20180116at113603-320x198.png" /> <p> In a stinging rebuke of Hinds' actions in the appointment of Dame Martina Milburn to the role, which was confirmed today, the education select committee said that his decision to personally ask her to... </p>

<img alt="Government reinstates legal aid for lone migrant children" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/59191d4d-819b-4239-9127-32c2efa04932/3/AsylumseekerMDursonShutterstock-320x198.jpg" /> <p> Under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, legal aid for non-asylum immigration claims made by lone migrant children and young people was axed in 2013. This left young people struggling... </p>

This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Head of Slough Music Service, Laura Lancaster, for the attention of Headteachers, Music teachers and Music coordinators.

<img alt="Hospital appoints youth worker for kidney disease patients" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/80a29d5a-4718-4ae9-9fc5-cb74c5a67cc3/3/Kidneyyouthworker-320x198.jpg" /> <p> The paediatric nephrology department at Southampton Children's Hospital has appointed Andy Beeson as its first youth worker for patients with chronic kidney disease. Beeson will work alongside clinical... </p>