Brexit red tape 'puts looked-after children at risk of homelessness'
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4y ago
Ahead of Brexit, all EU nationals living in the UK need to prove their immigration status under the EU Settlement Scheme in order to remain in the country. After the scheme was launched, it was billed ..read more
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Campaigners call for action on fast-food in deprived areas
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4y ago
The report, Hot Food Takeaways: Planning a route to healthier communities published by food campaign charity Sustain, says councils should find ways to incentivise healthier food outlets to open near schools ..read more
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North East Lincolnshire DCS to depart amid safety concerns
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4y ago
Steve Kay was replaced as DCS by the council's deputy chief executive Joanne Hewson after his departure was announced last Friday. Kay, a former youth worker, will leave the authority at the end of ..read more
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NYA launches youth work bursary fund
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4y ago
Up to 450 bursaries at NVQ Levels 2 and 3 are expected to be awarded in the first year of the fund, as part of the NYA's national initiative to help grow the workforce. Placements will be co-ordinated ..read more
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'Free' childcare offer will lead to more nursery closures, finds research
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A survey carried out by campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed among 266 childcare providers found 92 per cent said the 30-hour offer, introduced in September 2017 to three- and four-year-olds of working ..read more
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Election 2019: Early years policy 'arms race' ignores providers, say campaigners
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4y ago
Over the weekend, the Liberal Democrats pledged 35 hours for children as young as nine months old, in working families. Meanwhile, the Labour Party confirmed its early years election pledge to extend ..read more
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Councils set to ditch DfE-ordered children's services partnership
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4y ago
In October 2017, the Department for Education ordered Torbay Council to allow Plymouth City Council to take charge of its children's services department in a bid to improve standards, with a single director ..read more
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MoJ confirms delay to secure school opening
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4y ago
The pilot project, which will be established on the site of Medway Secure Training Centre (STC) in Kent, had been due to launch in autumn 2020. But the Ministry of Justice has told CYP Now that due ..read more
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Education Secretary calls for end of unregulated placements for under-16s in care
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4y ago
Williamson reportedly claims, in a letter seen by the BBC, that these placements should be "eliminated", and adds that he could not "imagine a circumstance under which a child under the age of 16 should ..read more
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Childcare provider costs rocket by 20 per cent
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4y ago
This is far outstripping increases in government funding for nurseries, according to childcare sector leaders, who say extra money is needed to ensure early years remains "viable and sustainable". The ..read more
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