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A high turnover of social workers has been identified as a continuing problem for the Greater Manchester borough of Bury. Picture: ReayWorld/Adobe Stock

28 February 2023

Local Spotlight: Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

Derren Hayes Children's Services

Christopher Heseltine-James: “I find myself conducting therapeutic work with families, sometimes in our outward-bound setting, sitting in a climbing harness on a cliff edge”

28 February 2023

How I Got Here: Christopher Heseltine-James, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Christopher Heseltine-James Social Care

The therapeutic fostering team helps children and carers facing a range of issues

31 January 2023

Suffolk's therapeutic fostering team builds relationships

Neil Puffett Social Care

Data shows St Christopher’s placements are more stable than the national average. Picture: Antonioguillem/Adobe Stock

31 January 2023

St Christopher's Fellowship embeds therapeutic approaches in children's care homes

Nina Jacobs Residential Children's Care

The report relates to sports and leisure clubs as well as tutoring and youth work organisations. Picture: Matimix/Adobe Stock

31 January 2023

Sports coach, youth worker and therapist in blended role

Sally Carr Youth Work

Training delivered by the programme’s coaches aims to empower young people with the skills to change their own futures. Pictures: Resurgo

31 January 2023

Breaking barriers to employment and education

Gabriella Józwiak Youth Work

Street League’s youth board helps shape decisions on how the charity improves and develops its programmes. Picture: Street League

31 January 2023

Street League creates youth board to better amplify young people's voices

Megan Warren-Lister Youth Work

Charity Kidscape moved its in-person anti-bullying ZAP workshops online for the first time during the Covid-19 pandemic

3 January 2023

Kidscape reaches more children affected by online bullying

Neil Puffett Safeguarding and child protection

Girlguiding UK’s new policies are in response to concerns from young people participating in its annual Girls’ Attitudes Survey

3 January 2023

Girlguiding UK ensures online safety is at the heart of safeguarding policy and practice

Neil Puffett Youth Work

Sport & Thought sessions give young people the space to play out their emotions and reflect on their feelings among peers

3 January 2023

How football sessions tackle mental health stigma

Gabriella Józwiak Youth Work

Children regularly play and mingle with the elderly residents at Kotoen in Tokyo. Picture: Yamasan/Adobe Stock

3 January 2023

Intergenerational co-located care, Japan

Jacqueline Cassidy Early Years

The Involving Young People Collective looked at what goes into making successful co-production programmes. Picture: Involving Young People Collective/Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

3 January 2023

Young voices draw up blueprint for effective and meaningful co-production

Emily Harle Youth Work

Penny Catton: “This was a turning point for me. I realised that to make a change, I needed to be the change”

3 January 2023

How I Got Here: Penny Catton, children’s home manager

Penny Catton Social Care

Rebecca de Vyea: 'I sometimes pinch myself that I am in my dream job'

1 December 2022

How I Got Here: Rebecca de Vyea, specialist speech therapist

Rebecca De Vyea Early Years

Learners are encouraged to develop child-centred ways of implementing change

29 November 2022

Champions of children’s health and wellbeing

Charlotte Goddard Health

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