Centre for Young Lives
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We’re an independent think tank dedicated to improving the lives of children, young people, and families. Our Exec Chair is Baroness @annelongfield
Joined August 2021
We’ve published a new report setting out a framework for the Government to ensure that its Best Start Family Hubs are effectively delivered and meet the needs of those children and families who need them most.
centreforyounglives.org.uk
This report sets out a framework for the Government to ensure that its Best Start Family Hubs – the successor to Sure Start – are effectively delivered and meet the needs of those children and...
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The Curriculum & Assessment Review this week marked an important step towards an inclusive & holistic education system, with particularly positive shifts on enrichment, digital literacy, and inclusion. Read our Executive Chair @annelongfield response : https://t.co/LRISmPO0br
centreforyounglives.org.uk
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NEW: Gordon Brown calls for “total abolition” of the two-child benefit policy in speech this morning — rather than a new tapered rate, or watering down the measure. He says government will fail to meet its targets without doing so.
Former Labour PM Gordon Brown set to warn today "shameful epidemic" of child poverty is biggest threat to country's economic future. He will say: "What has become a UK-wide child poverty emergency is not only the biggest cause of social division in our country but - because of
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Best Start Family Hubs are set to be rolled out to every LA in the country. What SEND support can families expect? Find out more, including new recommendations from the Centre for Young lives @CfYoungLives: https://t.co/YniexEWMUr
twinkl.co.uk
With each local authority expected to have family hubs by April 2026, we reveal everything you need to know about the government’s new support network.
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Best Start Family Hubs offer a fresh start for Sure Start. As plans for rollout quicken we've published a framework of what is important to get right - locating in areas of most need, high ambitions, proper funding & underpinning by law to protect them from being dismantled again
We’ve published a new report setting out a framework for the Government to ensure that its Best Start Family Hubs are effectively delivered and meet the needs of those children and families who need them most.
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We’ve spent the last 18 months banging the drum for enrichment to be a core part of children’s learning and development, so we welcome the proposals in the Curriculum Review. Schools will now need support to deliver it.
bbc.co.uk
Ministers are making the changes for children in England after a review of what is taught in schools.
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Time is of the essence for families coping with early parenthood, child poverty, rising youth unhappiness, unmet special educational needs, and school absence. We need a fresh start for family support that learns from the dismantling of Sure Start and delivers a lasting and
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The report urges the Government to embed Best Start Family Hubs in law and target new funding at England’s areas of greatest need. It reveals how those local authorities where children are less likely to be ‘school ready’ are more likely to be ‘childcare deserts’ – and argues
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Obesity in children aged four and five at highest level outside of pandemic https://t.co/7qzID6X6QS
news.sky.com
Data found 10.5% of children in reception and more than a fifth in year 6 were obese in 2024/25, with boys more likely to be overweight than girls.
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Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be 'a fresh, cost-effective, and morally unambiguous start to making the days better and the future brighter for kids up and down the country.' https://t.co/vTfKcIw0cU
labourlist.org
Next month marks 60 years since Child Poverty Action Group first wrote to a Prime Minister. The PM in question was Harold Wilson, and in…
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"Poor mental health costs England around £300bn every year." That cost, shockingly, is nearly twice the total budget of the NHS, writes @HarryClrke
newstatesman.com
Our country is increasingly full of young struggling to work. Helping them is key to our future prosperity and growth.
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Very encouraging, though a plea to Ministers not to fall into the quagmire of overly complex tapers and other wheezes so beloved of Treasury officialdom. The cap is wrong in principle and needs to be scrapped in full.
EXCL: Rachel Reeves to lift the two-child benefit limit in the budget with officials exploring options of a new tapered system @jessicaelgot reveals https://t.co/iDnd2KViz2
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Are you ambitious about inclusion? In partnership with @mission44, Centre for Young Lives is hosting a series of events will bring together educators, academy trusts, local authorities, policymakers, funders, community organisations and young people, to explore what practical
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Scrapping the two-child limit in full is the most cost-effective way to reduce the number of kids living in poverty, pound for pound. So when the chancellor is facing difficult decisions, it doesn’t make sense to implement a less efficient half-measure. https://t.co/ghZ5vma9Y8
lbc.co.uk
The only way the Government will reduce child poverty is to scrap the two-child benefit cap, writes Alison Garnham.
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Fully repealing the two-child limit on benefits is by far the best way to ensure fewer children are growing up in poverty. Half measures have been mooted – from moving to a three-child limit to exempting working families – but our modelling reveals that they would all still
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It's not just us that wants you to scrap the two-child limit to benefits @RachelReevesMP, over 40 economists, academics, and policy experts back us too. The two-child limit generates savings of around £3.6 billion per year, but it's the largest driver of rising child poverty in
Economists warn Reeves: Pressure grows to end ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap fuelling child poverty
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The annual Children in Need in England stats for 2025 have been published by @educationgovuk today. Children in need are a legally defined group of children assessed as needing help and protection as a result of risks to their development or health. There are 402,400 children
explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk
Statistics on children in need in England, including child protection plans and referrals to and assessments completed by children’s social care services.
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