Children & Young People Now
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Children & Young People Now is a biweekly magazine covering issues relating to children and young people in the United Kingdom. Follow us to keep up with latest news, jobs and best practice in health, social care, education, childcare & early years, youth work, youth justice and advice & guidance services.
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5y 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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5y 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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5y 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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5y 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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5y ago
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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5y 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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5y 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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5y 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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5y 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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5y 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