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The International Forum for Child Welfare IFCW invites delegates and speakers at 19th WorldForum 2008 to comment on and sign-up to the conference declaration. The declaration calls for countries across the world to put children and young people at the heart of their societies and ensure that services are provided to support them.

Charities urged to bid for share of HMRC £2m funding pot, 10/10/08 [W]

Charities and community organisations across Wales have until 12 November to bid for a share of a £2.33m funding pot to help vulnerable people reduce debt and get the right benefits and tax.

Children and Young Persons Bill has third reading, 09/10/08 [W/E]

The Children and Young Persons Bill has had its third reading in the House of Commons. MPs debated fostering and provisions for looked-after children in custody.

Package of support for disabled children, 09/10/08 [W]

Welsh Assembly Government Ministers have announced a new funding package of support worth £2.75m to improve services and provision for disabled young people.

Draft Budget October 2008, 7/10/08 [W]

The Welsh Assembly Government’s One Wales budget for the next two years was set out by Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery, Andrew Davies on Tuesday 7 October 2008.

Funding for Sexual Assault Referral Centres, 7/10/2008 [W/E]

Additional funding is being provided to enable Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCS) to be established in all parts of England and Wales.

Review of substance misuse services, 6/10/2008 [W]

The Healthcare Inspectorate Wales has begun a review into the treatment of substance misuse in Wales.

Concluding observations for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 3/10/08 [W/E/S/NI]

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child published its concluding observations for the UK on Friday 3 October 2008.

Learner Travel (Wales) Measure Passed by National Assembly for Wales, 30/9/08 [W]

The National Assembly for Wales passed the Learner Travel (Wales) Measure during the Plenary Session of 30 September 2008.

Minister outlines further details of NHS Reorganisation, 30/9/08 [W]

Health Minister, Edwina Hart, set out further details of the planned NHS Reorganisation during the plenary session of 30 September 2008.

UK Council for Child Internet Safety Launched, 29/9/08 [W]

UK Council for Child Internet Safety was launched on 29 September 2008. The establishment of such a council was a key recommendation in Dr Tanya Byron’s Report, ‘Safer Children in a Digital World’.

Child Poverty Legislation Planned, 23/09/08 [W/E/NI/S]

The Prime Minister has said the UK Government will enshrine in law the target of abolishing child poverty by 2020.

Cricketing legend to speak at Parents Week conference, 23/09/08 [W]

Robert Croft, cricketing legend and father, will be speaking at Children in Wales’ Parents Week Conference on the 23rd October in Builth Wells.

Local Service Improvement Measure, 22/09/08 [W]

Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, Dr Brian Gibbons, has published proposals to change the way local authorities, national parks and fire and rescue authorities account for the local services they provide.

UK to sign UNCRC in full, 19/09/08 [W/E/NI/S]

The UK government has decided to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in full.

Child Poverty Solutions website launched, 18/09/08 [W]

A new website designed to help councils and their partners develop local responses to reducing child poverty has been launched.

Suicide and the internet - updating the law, 17/09/08 [W/E/NI/S]

The law on assisting suicide is to be simplified to increase public understanding and reassure people that it applies as much on the internet as it does off-line, UK Justice Minister, Maria Eagle has said.

CEOP reveals online child sex offender tactics, 12/09/08 [W/E/NI/S]

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) reports that child sex offenders are using increasingly intimidating tactics to engage with and exploit children, with some paedophiles running several e-mail accounts and sending out hundreds of messages to children each day.

MPs call for sex education in primary schools, 25/08/08 [W]

A group of Welsh Labour MPs have issued a call for the Welsh Assembly Government to make sex education a compulsory part of the curriculum in all schools.

Tougher travel rules for child sex offenders, 20/08/08 [W/E/NI/S]

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has announced new measures to strengthen the travel restrictions on convicted child sex offenders.

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