Derren Hayes

Derren Hayes

derren.hayes@markallengroup.com

Derren Hayes: 'Moving to a ‘report card’ system should remove the stigma that came with being branded inadequate'
Opinion

University access key to success of levelling up

Children's Services
Participants developed greater awareness and therapeutic skills through training. Picture: deagreez/Adobe Stock
Research

Parenting recovery programme tackles child trauma

Social Care
The conference will focus on how to use evidence and evaluation to improve children's outcomes. Image: Adobestock
News

Conference shines spotlight on effective evidence and evaluation

Children's Services
News

In the latest edition of CYP Now: Foster care special, digital poverty, and SEND Review

Children's Services
The pilot aimed to encourage looked-after children to discuss mental wellbeing. Picture: Motortion/Adobe Stock
Analysis

Lessons from mental health pilots

Health
The chaperone scheme is being trialled at Erdington Academy in Birmingham
Analysis

Debate: School-run chaperones

Youth Work
Nottinghamshire County Council's online promotional work includes films of local parents accessing early years provision
Analysis

Tackling free childcare decline

Early Years
Annamarie Hassall: “Succession planning is in my DNA”
Features

Interview: Annamarie Hassall, chief executive, Nasen

Education
Derren Hayes: “Mockingbird highlights the value of councils constructing a network of foster carers who offer help, advice and a shared sense of caring for each other”
Opinion

Range of measures can fix foster carer shortage

Social Care
Finding the right foster carer in the right place geographically to meet a child’s needs is likely to remain a challenge for some time. Picture: Halfpoint/Adobe Stock
Features

Foster Care: Special Report

Social Care
Research found most council staff considered long-term foster care a positive permanence option. Picture:
Other

Foster care: policy context

Social Care
Theresa Leavy says the county has a complex make up, combining rural areas, coastal communities and pockets of deep poverty. Picture: Patryk Kosmider /Adobe Stock
Best Practice

Local Spotlight: Dorset Council

Children's Services