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School Systems Minister Lord Agnew announces expert business advice for schools to help them make every penny of education funding count.
d_f_e
Published: 17 May 2018
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The What Works Centre for Children's Social Care, which has been backed with £20m in government funding, has issued the call ahead of its official launch, which is expected to take place in 2020.
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cypn
Published: 16 May 2018
The move is designed to prevent cheating via smartwatches designed to look like standard timepieces.
bbc
Published: 16 May 2018
<img alt="Children still at risk at inadequate council, Ofsted finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/a42e612a-d631-4eca-8b30-085452fb169e/3/ScreenShot20180516at124258-320x198.png" />
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A re-inspection of children's services at Surrey County Council, where serious concerns about how child sexual exploitation is dealt with were raised following a visit in 2014, concluded that leaders had...
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cypn
Published: 16 May 2018
<img alt="Care improves life for two thirds of children, study finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/1c004053-eaca-44b9-9e1b-d61c28dc014d/4/Careandadoptionnastia1983AdobeStock-320x198.jpg" />
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A study of children subject to a care order across five local authority areas tracked how their outcomes changed over a number of years.
It found that in 71 per cent of cases, being taken into care...
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cypn
Published: 16 May 2018
<img alt="YJB pledges internal savings to prevent youth offending team cuts" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/9d6adbc6-f904-4837-8399-787c40d9cec0/3/colinallars3-320x198.jpg" />
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YJB chief executive Colin Allars said that local YOT grant allocations for 2018/19 have now been confirmed with no local area set to receive less than they did in 2017/18.
He said this was part of a...
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cypn
Published: 16 May 2018
Baroness Amos, the UK's first black woman university head, criticises "deep-seated prejudices".
bbc
Published: 16 May 2018
£6 million boost to improve maths literacy in the Northern Powerhouse.
d_f_e
Published: 16 May 2018
Farc guerillas have returned home, but they are often illiterate and unemployed and in urgent need of new skills for jobs.
bbc
Published: 16 May 2018