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My husband was invited into our toddler's nursery last week to "demonstrate ICT to the children" - it was a Father's Day initiative. He said he wasn't really sure what to do, but in the end he made a slideshow of some pictures he'd...
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Like all well informed Londoners I get my daily news updates from the Metro. But I don't commute. I must have randomly subscribed to receive the online version and so I get a little email link in my inbox every morning. (It makes a good teaching tool...
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So the firstborn son has finally got his degree results - and it's first class honours with distinction. After a brief glow of parental pride, I've started planning to swap names by deedpoll and become my son's son, while he can be his dad's...
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Rousseau, the French philosopher and champion of liberty was hunted and pursued from one place to another because of his opinions. When Voltaire, another philosopher and writer heard of it, he invited Rousseau to come and live in his house. When Rousseau...
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So huge cuts in public spending are imminent. From now until March 2011 the Leveller forecasts that we will be subject to a drawing back of funding for Children's Centres as Councils and PCTs draw in funds and squirrel away pots for the famine of...
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Private Eye ran a story on the law lords ruling last week, on a 17 year old being chucked out of his home, who then spent months staying on friends' sofas, sleeping in cars and washing his clothes wherever he could. Baroness Hale of Richmond said...
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Yesterday I was in parliament for the Conservative Party Children and Young People’s Summit. The great and the good of the sector were there, which is a fair indication that people are now taking the prospect of an imminent Tory Government seriously....
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A colleague attended Gordon Brown's address in Stratford yesterday. A group of young people, as you probably saw on the news, were waiting to greet him outside Stratford Town Hall and were then ushered in quickly to take reserved seats on the front...
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Amindst the chaos of the past few days in Westminster, we now know that Ed Balls will remain as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. Only two years after its creation, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills is no more...
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I'm very disappointed by the loss of Beverley Hughes MP from the Cabinet. In her capacity as Minister for Children, Young People and Families, Changemakers had a great relationship with Beverley. The last four years have been a welcome period of stability...
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I was in a meeting room far from CYP Now Towers when a text message from the office alerted me to the fact that Beverley Hughes had quit as children's minister for family reasons. I sneaked out of the room as my jaw plummeted to call in and find out...
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Susan Boyle. Great voice, mad hype. I watched her on youtube and got a tear in my eye, this clumsy gauche woman who knocked them all backwards when she opened her mouth to sing. World goes mad, Demi Moore, Kofi Annan, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama - all...
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One of my colleagues bumped into a bidwriter for a fellow organisation at a DWP briefing on social enterprise. He asked a question at the briefing: “If you have got social enterprises who are developing their own projects and they are putting a lot of...
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I thought readers over here on the CYPN Blogs might be interested to know about an event I'm involved in organising taking place in July. It would be great to get your thoughts on the sorts of topics you would like to see explored at this unConference...
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It really worries me that there are lots of Local Authorities up and down the country consulting disabled children and young people, but not many mechanisms sharing information. This applies to projects such as Short Breaks , which is part of Aiming Higher...