**  TUPE needs better leadership and more effective sanctions - more   

**  School league tables to omit thousands of vocational qualifications -more   

**  Positive for Youth:  the statement -more   

**  Population boom -more   

**  Play is key to early learning -more   

**  Mutuals get go ahead - more   

**  Munro:  key drivers impacting on policy -more   

**  Duke of Edinburgh scheme keen to involve more young people with additional needs -more   

**  Brighton councillors vote to strengthen ties with voluntary youth organisations - more   

**  A newly published government strategy combines existing plans to improve opportunities for young people -more   

**  Welfare reforms could infringe children's rights claims Commissioner -more   

**  Social care and education biggest challenges in 2012 - more   

**  Positive for Youth? - more  

**  Nurseries feel the pressure as Local Authority support takes a tumble -more   

**  How can we find the funding for infrastructure in 2012 -more   

**  EU funding for youth projects under threat, BYC warns -more   

**  Discontent widespread among children, study shows - more  

**  Child poverty hotspots revealed - more  

**  Infant mental health:  'the next frontier for early intervention' - more  

**  Payment-by-results outreach service to further bolster support for troubled families - more  

**  Number of children living in poverty set to rocket -more  

**  MP's report Big Society will only succeed if 'little society' is supported - more

**  Government releases strategy to improve opportunities for young people - more   

** Milburn calls for focus on child poverty to shift to under fives - more  

**  Messages delivered to Prime Minister to mark year of action on children - more   

**  Loughton confirms abolition of national eCAF system - more   

**  Cameron announces key worker role in £448m trouble families initiative -more  

**  Youth service cuts put further strain on NHS, charity claims -more  

**  Clarke warns of rise in youth crime as young people struggle to find work -more  

**  Children's Centres need help with local data to reach families most in need - more  

**  Campaigners call on police to end overnight detention of young people -more  

**  Voluntary organisations are eligible for wage subsidies under Youth Contract -more  

**  'There's no going back to normal' report form Third Sectors Austerity Watch Panel -more  

**  Young offenders and victims of crime hit by legal aid cuts -more  

**  Youth homelessness rise linked to relationship breakdowns -more  

**  Local authorities prepare for cuts of up to eight per cent next year -more  

**  Osborne pledges to double childcare places for two-year-olds -more  

**  NACRO Chief urges charities to take an innovative approach to fundraising -more  

**  Number of young people self-harming rockets - more  

**  Information service cull leaves councils at risk of failing to meet legal duties - more  

**  Government strategy for missing children unveiled -more  

**  Francis Maude unveils details of £10m mutuals programme - more  

**  Discrimination against disabled children still widespread, study finds - more  

**  Early Intervention could be key theme of next spending review, Cameron indicates - more  

**  Personal Independence Payment - more  

**  Big Lottery Fund offers £10m to help areas 'make greener choices' more  

**  Autumn statement brings little cheer to sector - more  

**  Schools 'bombarded' with careers service offers as new duty looms - more  

**  Worcestershire Council passess plans to halve spend on youth provision -more  

**  Young offenders and victims of crime hit by legal aid cuts - more  

**  Capital funds critical to expansion of free childcare for two year olds - more  

**  Charities consider pulling out of Work Programme - more  

**  Councils remain unprepared for fallout of housing benefit cap - more  

**  Early years peer support scheme progress - more  

**  Government announces £1bn fund to tackle youth unemployment - more  

**  Nick Hurd says the Government needs to simplify impact measurement - more  

**  Number of children on child protection plans escalate - more  

**  Analysis:  how the shared services VAT exemption will work - more  

**  Dorset County Council receives 'unfair' distribution of Government funding - more  

**  Quarter of runaways exposed to danger - more  

**  Housing Strategy:  At A Glance - more  

**  Government seeks views on childcare for two year olds - more  

**  Government plans to crack down on child sexual exploitation revealed - more  

**  Few organisations ready for Big Society Capital investment, report says - more  

**  Fallout from spending review must be fully assessed, say children's commissioners -more  

**  Big Fund to provide grants for free advice services in England - more  

**  Number of unemployed young people tops one million -more  

**  Young people fear that safeguards against cyber-bullying are not enough - more  

**  Funding still available for youth service leaders prepared to 'mix it up', claims Wei - more  

**  Loughton considers league tables for youth services - more  

**  Social Finance trial council ponders bank loan to cut care numbers - more  

**  Youth re-offending on the rise - more  

**  Volunteers absent among first family champions - more  

**  Serous case reviews anaylsis identifies recurring safeguarding errors - more  

** May outlines plan to combat gang culture - more  

**  Loughton blames 'big personalities' for lack of co-operation in youth sector - more  

**  Cameron called upon to accelerate reforms for working parents - more  

**  Government urged to drop the 'NEET' label - more  

**  Intervention projects help to cut care figures, DfE research suggests - more  

**  Government will not step in to protect youth services, Loughton admits - more  

**  Government challenged to intervene in Councils that neglect youth services - more  

**  Family groups awarded £11m to deliver support services - more  

**  Big society - ministers take an axe to the social enterprise bill - more  

**  Overstretched support services unable to meet rise in demand - more  

**  Initiative provides opportunity for young people to shape local youth services - more  

**  Head teachers to be hgeld responsible for excluded pupils' education - more  

**  Good Practice:  How interventions are curbing anti-social behaviour in Brighton and Hove - more  

**  Your Square Mile launches mutual offering volunteers public liability insurance - more  

**  Wellbeing Boards to be 'significant player' in youth service provision - more  

**  Unite blasts Youth Policy proposals - more  

**  The Freedom of Information Act:  a few tips for the voluntary sector user - more  

**  Short Breaks services 'transformed' - but children with complex needs still miss out - more  

**  Funding for Short Breaks pays off - more  

**  College enrolment figures for 16-19 year olds slump - more  

**  New Government unit to co-ordinate help for troubled families - more  

**  Manchester to replace children's centres with home visits - more  

**  Loughton expresses fears over impact of welfare reforms on young carers - more  

**  Number of adoptions continues to fall, DfE figures reveal - more  

**  Nice advocates collaborative approach to support services for autistic children - more  

**  New bosses, new control agenda - more  

**  National Citizen Service 2012 providers announced - more  

**  Labour Conference 2011:  Miliband promises young people a 'new bargain' - more  

**  Labour Conference 2011:  Payment-by-results 'the only game in town' for early intervention - more  

**  Families suffer as mothers struggle to speak out about postnatal depression - more  

**  Families 'priced out of childcare' as nursery vacancies rocket - more  

**  Conservative Conference 2011:  Lack of analysis threatens bid to help most troubled families, charity chief warns - more  

** Information for workers - Volatile Substance Abuse - more

** Schools urged to use volunteers to tackle educational exclusion - more

** Providers announced for next National Citizen Service - more

** Payment by results culture may affect difficult beneficiaries - more

** Official statistics on families receiving FIP support - more

** Nick Clegg's Summer School opportunities - more  

** National Citizen Service pilot results - more  

** Lib Dem pledge package of support for families - more  

** Lib Dems pledge for classes for parents of under 5s - more  

** Labour calls debate to press for in-person careers advice - more  

** Intensive intervention helps families reduce poor parenting - more  

** Does Every Child still matter? - more  

** The Darker Side of Participation - more  

** Cameron backs Early Intervention Foundation - more  

**  Members briefing for Open Public Services white paper - more  

**  UK parents struggle to find time to be with their children - more  

**  Strain on parents' incomes spells uncertainty for extended services - more  

**  Relax on restraint may put children with autism at risk - more  

**  Police seek to counter rise in street robberies - more  

**  Legal aid cuts would deny 6,000 vulnerable children, warns charity - more  

**  Labour calls debate to press for in-person careers advice - more  

**  Guidance to Local Authorities on funding the voluntary sector is 'a step in the right direction' - more