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Children, Young People & Families e-mail alert - Issue 118

Children, Young People & Families e-mail alert

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Issue 118

Mon Jan 23 2006

STORIES & ARTICLES

Social care/childcare/families & parenting

Anti-social rehab centre success (BBC news story)Enabling children to access targeted learning support and assisting parents can turn families around.

Source: BBC Mon Jan 23 2006

4 out of 5 absent fathers pay nothing for children (Guardian news story)1.1 million people - have avoided paying a penny towards their former partners and children according to the CSA.

Source: Guardian Mon Jan 23 2006

Debt collectors to recover unpaid child maintenance (Guardian news story)The Child Support Agency job of collecting unpaid maintenance to be handed to private debt collectors.

Source: Guardian Mon Jan 23 2006

Health

Classes in fake tanning for ish pupils (Guardian news story)But such is the desire to have a tan among ish schoolchildren that schools are calling in beauty experts.

Source: Guardian Mon Jan 23 2006

Education

Government quizzes children's directors on education reform (Community Care news story)Education minister Adonis has ordered department officials to call every director of children’s services. Source: Community Care Mon Jan 23 2006

School results table under fire (BBC news story)Education union leaders said the tables - changed again this year - were more complicated but just as misleading.

Source: BBC Mon Jan 23 2006

defiant over school reforms (BBC news story)Lord Kinnock says "trust" schools, with more say over admissions, could "shatter" the education system.

Source: BBC Mon Jan 23 2006

Ofsted tells on school teachers (BBC news story)Ofsted inspectors are facing criticism after telling pupils as young as four that their teachers "must try harder".

Source: BBC Mon Jan 23 2006

Crime & legal

CPS questions the credibility of child porn witness (Guardian news story)Warning issued to police and lawyers over expert. Former adviser to police claims he is being targeted.

Source: Guardian Mon Jan 23 2006

Paedophile monitoring system "needs more resources" (Guardian news story)The warning came with the number of people on the sex offenders register expected to soar to 100,000 in nine years time.

Source: Guardian Mon Jan 23 2006

All child sex offenders to be barred from teaching (Guardian news story)Education secretary reveals regrets as she tries to draw line under schools row.

Source: Guardian Mon Jan 23 2006

General

stands firm despite fresh claims (Guardian news story)Downing Street yesterday dismissed calls for the education secretary, Ruth , to resign after a spate of fresh claims.

Source: Guardian Mon Jan 23 2006

Heads back in offenders row (BBC news story)Head teachers' leaders have rejected calls that Ruth should step down over the row about sex offenders in schools.

Source: BBC Mon Jan 23 2006

Teacher agency warn on checks (BBC news story)Teacher supply agencies say the current checking arrangements for school staff are "unacceptable".

Source: BBC Mon Jan 23 2006

's teacher vetting blueprint (BBC news story)Rules for barring sex offenders from schools could mean checking against a centralised list of eight million people.

Source: BBC Mon Jan 23 2006

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