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Interview: Pressure on the pledge - Stephen Timms, employment and welfare reform minister

1 October 2008, Children & Young People Now

Ever since Tony Blair made his pledge nine years ago to end child poverty by 2020, the government has been fairly vocal about the issue.

Child Poverty Special Report: Sure start - has it reduced poverty?

24 September 2008, Children & Young People Now

It's nearly a decade since Labour launched its ambitious Sure Start programme to tackle child poverty. Chloe Stothart investigates the difference it's made.

Child Poverty Special Report: The poverty trap

24 September 2008, Children & Young People Now

Ten years ago, Labour pledged to abolish child poverty within a generation. Over the next few pages, we examine the progress made so far. But first, Ruth Smith investigates how...

Child Poverty Special Report: Stuck on benefits

24 September 2008, Children & Young People Now

Five young women from a YWCA project in Kent talk candidly about their life on benefits. Ruth Smith reports.

Social work pioneers

17 September 2008, Children & Young People Now

It's six months since eleven local authorities started testing new ways of delivering social work. So what's changed? Mathew Little investigates.

Interview: More than just a name - Clare Tickell, chief executive, Action for Children

17 September 2008, Children & Young People Now

NCH is dead. Long live Action for Children. This week, after 139 years of working under the National Children's Home or NCH banner, the charity changed its name.

Feature: Looked-after children: Care in the chair

10 September 2008, Children & Young People Now

What really matters when you're in care? Sam Thorp asks young people at one of the largest gatherings of looked-after children.

Feature: Asylum seekers: Home from home

16 July 2008, Children & Young People Now

Schools often struggle to include refugee and asylum-seeking children. Shafik Meghji visits a school in Essex that is bucking the trend.

Feature: Looked-after children: A stable home

9 July 2008, Children & Young People Now

Councils are struggling to meet tough government targets on providing stable homes for looked-after children.

Interview: Debbie Booth, foster carer, Auchterhouse, near Dundee - A model of fostering

21 May 2008, Children & Young People Now

Debbie Booth, along with her husband, has been a foster carer for 10 years and has looked after a total of 30 children during that time.