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Jeremy Corbyn pledges support for Youth Services

‘Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to fight for statutory youth services if he is chosen to head the party.’ Children and Young People Now have published, on 11.8.15, an article about…

Parent Champions’ Training for Family and Childcare Trust

Parent Champions’ is a volunteering project established by the Family and Childcare Trust and has become hugely successful in the last seven years.   As one of their trainers for the project I…

2 year olds… Are we ready?

Free Entitlement for 2 Year Olds From September 2014 the number of 2 year old children being able to access funded places increases to 40% , reaching out to those who are most…

Free childcare offer for 2 year olds

Family and Childcare Trust has released details from recent research which shows that thousands of two year olds in England may be missing out in the free entitlement to childcare. The programme to…

Labour plans for universal childcare

Ed Milliband has pledged in his new year message to pursue the policy of universal childcare for all pre-school children and to make childcare a priority, if elected as Prime Minister.(Guardian 30 December…

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Child Rights Partners

‘Children and young people are to be involved in designing and delivering services aimed at them through a partnership between Unicef UK and six local authorities.’ Children and Young People Now, reported this…

A Quiet Revolution

What happens in communities when funding for projects is cut back? When plans and development for new centres no longer happens and the traditional means of support is withdrawn, what is the real…

Daycare Trust and Family Parenting Institute to form one new organisation

The Daycare Trust and the Family and Parenting Institute are to merge under a new name from next year, the charities have announced. (Image courtesy of Daycare Trust) This is exciting news for…

High Rents and Nowhere to Live

  The storm around the benefit cap to start in April 2013 made some good headlines this week. The expense of living in rented accommodation at that price is hard for everyone.  …

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