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Speech: Damian Hinds speech at National Governance Association conference
Education Secretary sets out plans to boost training for governors and strengthen accountability of academies
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Published: 9 June 2018
News story: Education Secretary issues call to arms for school governors
Damian Hinds calls on leading employers to lend their business expertise to support schools to improve education for every child
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Published: 9 June 2018
More than a million on social housing waiting lists
Data shows 1.15m households are waiting for social housing as England fails to build new homes.
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Published: 9 June 2018
Business leaders urged to help run schools
With one in 10 posts on governing bodies empty, skilled professionals are being urged to step in.
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Published: 9 June 2018
News story: Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2018
The List pays tribute to those helping enhance the lives of children and young people with improvements to education, children’s services, and social mobility.
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Published: 8 June 2018
Daily roundup June 8: FGM, smacking, and historic court case
<img alt="Daily roundup June 8: FGM, smacking, and historic court case" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/0f91c8f4-2320-473e-9d3a-c522f0d042d4/2/a59e8c73a659d68d0d6adb16a94ed167gif-320x198.gif" /> <p> Teachers are being advised of the signs a girl may be at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) as "cutting season" approaches. The National FGM Centre said the so-called season arrives at... </p>
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Published: 8 June 2018
Labour MP makes legislative bid for statutory youth services
<img alt="Labour MP makes legislative bid for statutory youth services" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/566136cc-e870-4f95-98bb-6aabd3314986/3/ScreenShot20180608at120022-320x198.png" /> <p> Lloyd Russell-Moyle introduced the Ten Minute Rule Bill calling on the government to promote and secure youth services and to establish local youth service partnerships. The member of parliament for... </p>
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Published: 8 June 2018
Major children's trust 'making progress', Ofsted finds
<img alt="Major children&#39;s trust &#39;making progress&#39;, Ofsted finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/6a327dc0-c73a-4e7c-9e08-c060e6249e91/2/fcab586103ae4294b40c21c8681c9a97jpg-320x198.jpg" /> <p> Birmingham Council launched a children's trust in April in a bid to improve standards within children's services, which have been rated "inadequate" since 2009. In its first monitoring visit since it was... </p>
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Published: 8 June 2018
Surge in proportion of black, Asian and ethnic minority children in custody
<img alt="Surge in proportion of black, Asian and ethnic minority children in custody" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/9f939988-0ed9-4dc3-99d7-1536ffd78309/2/cookhamwood1petercrane-320x198.jpg" /> <p> Statistics published by the Ministry of Justice show that as of April, there were 940 under-18s in youth custody, of which 452 (48.1 per cent) were BAME, while the ethnicity of a further 18 young people... </p>
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Published: 8 June 2018