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4 Jan 13
Imminent changes to eligibility for Child Benefit will create ‘incoherence’ in the welfare system, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
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18 Dec 12
Health providers should be legally compelled to provide Special Educational Needs services and assessments, according to MPs.
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17 Dec 12
Almost 25,000 extra nursery places will be required in London next year to meet a pledge by the deputy prime minister to provide free part-time early-years education for the poorest 20% of two-year-...
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30 Nov 12
Councils have criticised the latest publication of adoption scorecards by the government, warning that the data could lead to ‘misleading’ comparisons between authorities.
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19 Nov 12
Education Secretary Michael Gove has urged local authorities to take more at-risk children into care, saying an increase in young people being looked after by councils was not a cause for concern.
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15 Nov 12
Ministers are consulting on a new measure of child poverty, saying the current focus on relative income excludes other vital factors.
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6 Nov 12
Reductions in local government funding could lead to some abused children falling through the social services net, MPs warned today.
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5 Nov 12
Changes at the Department for Education could lead to a reduced focus on early years policy, MPs warned today.
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25 Oct 12
Pressure on council children’s services is mounting as more children are taken into care, a local authority survey has shown.
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24 Oct 12
Plans to cut £150m from council funding for children’s services could ‘severely hamper’ town halls’ early intervention programmes and put Sure Start children’s centres at risk, the Local Government...
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19 Oct 12
Procedures for delivering children’s care services are loaded in favour of local authority provision and are failing vulnerable Scottish youngsters, an alliance of third and private sector providers...
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10 Oct 12
Council ‘virtual schools’ have had little success in closing the education gap between children in care and other pupils, Ofsted has concluded.
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8 Oct 12
The government will cut another £10bn from the welfare budget within four years, targeting housing benefits for young people and payments for children, George Osborne told the Conservative Party...
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26 Jul 12
The £1.25bn of funding being channelled through the pupil premium is not necessarily going to be well spent, both the Sutton Trust education charity and Ofsted have warned.
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10 Jul 12
There is ‘not a snowball’s chance in hell’ that the government will reach the statutory target to eradicate child poverty by 2020, former Labour minister Alan Milburn said today.
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9 Jul 12
Working families with children have been dealt a ‘triple financial blow’ in the recession through cuts to tax credits and rising costs of childcare and transport, according to the Joseph Rowntree...
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14 Jun 12
The government wants to redefine the way it measures child poverty, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith announced today.
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11 Jun 12
Every eligible local authority in England has agreed to take part in the government's plan to turn round the lives of 120,000 problem families by 2015, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced...
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21 May 12
Nurseries and children’s centres should be able to take on ‘academy status’ and be freed from local authority control, according to a Conservative MP.
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18 May 12
Plans to cut the costs of the child maintenance system in the UK are ‘high risk’ and could end up increasing child poverty, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
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16 May 12
The Scottish Care Inspectorate is to spearhead a strategic assessment of care services for children over the coming year, under plans published today in the latest local government inspection...
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14 May 12
The government has been ‘inundated’ with more than 2,000 applications from schools to run summer schools funded by £50m of the pupil premium programme, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
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11 May 12
The government’s assessments of individual adoption services, published today, lack credibility and could deter prospective adopters, councils have said.
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26 Apr 12
A campaign is mounting to secure councils a grant funding top-up to meet the costs of children in care, Public Finance has learnt.
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16 Apr 12
Parents who persistently allow their children to miss school should have their Child Benefit docked, the government’s ‘behaviour czar’ has recommended.
4 Jan 13Imminent changes to eligibility for Child Benefit will create ‘incoherence’ in the welfare system, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
18 Dec 12Health providers should be legally compelled to provide Special Educational Needs services and assessments, according to MPs.
19 Oct 12Procedures for delivering children’s care services are loaded in favour of local authority provision and are failing vulnerable Scottish youngsters, an alliance of third and private sector providers...
8 Oct 12The government will cut another £10bn from the welfare budget within four years, targeting housing benefits for young people and payments for children, George Osborne told the Conservative Party...
26 Jul 12The £1.25bn of funding being channelled through the pupil premium is not necessarily going to be well spent, both the Sutton Trust education charity and Ofsted have warned.
9 Jul 12Working families with children have been dealt a ‘triple financial blow’ in the recession through cuts to tax credits and rising costs of childcare and transport, according to the Joseph Rowntree...
11 Jun 12Every eligible local authority in England has agreed to take part in the government's plan to turn round the lives of 120,000 problem families by 2015, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced...
26 Apr 12A campaign is mounting to secure councils a grant funding top-up to meet the costs of children in care, Public Finance has learnt.
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