The Early Years Alliance (EYA) and A Better Start Southend were big winners on the evening, picking up the Early Years Award and Partnership Working Award for their joint work to transform early education in the deprived Essex coastal town.
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Full list of winners, highly commended and finalists from the 2022 CYP Now Awards
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Images from the Awards ceremony
A Better Start Southend is a partnership of statutory, community and voluntary organisations working to make Southend-on-Sea the best place to have a child and raise a family. The EYA has a central organising role in the partnership, and strategic partners include Southend-on-Sea City Council, two NHS foundation trusts, Essex Police, and the University of Essex.
The partnership won the Early Years Award for its Talking Transitions project which has improved children’s speech, language and communications skills so they start school better prepared to learn.
It was also a night of celebration for charity Restitute, which won the Family Support Award and whose chief executive Cath Pickles won the coveted Children and Young People’s Champion Award.
Restitute supports the parents, carers, children and partners of anyone who has survived sexual abuse, domestic abuse or serious violence. Restitute supports them to improve their health and wellbeing as well as their financial security, through accessing the right benefits and working towards goals such as education and employment.
Other winners on the night included Chloe Ryan who received the Children’s Achievement Award for her impressive work as a member of the Greenwich Children in Care Councils.
In a strong field of finalists, Victim Support picked up the Children and Young People’s Charity of the year, just pipping PAPYRUS to the coveted trophy. In the past year, Victim Support practitioners engaged 23,174 children and young people and provided high-quality support to 11,727 individuals.
Team Oasis picked up the special Pandemic Response Award for its Critical Care to Our Whole Community project, which during the height of the pandemic turned its Liverpool centre into a local distribution hub and moved programmes online.
The ceremony, hosted by children's TV favourite Dave Benson Phillips, returned to Fulham’s Hurlingham Club after a two-year absence due to the pandemic and was attended by 600 guests who enjoyed a three-course meal and entertainment by Rubik's Cube, a Makaton choir for children with special educational needs and disabilities, who received a standing ovation for their brilliant set of popular songs.
The full list of CYP Now Awards 2022 winning and highly commended entries are:
The Early Years Award
Winner: Early Years Alliance, A Better Start Southend – Talking Transitions
The Play Award
Winner: Different Planet Arts
The Learning Award sponsored by the Parenting Apart Programme 
Winner: Aurora Hanley School, Feel Good Friday
The Safeguarding Award
Winner: Blackpool Better Start, For Baby’s Sake
The Arts and Culture Award
Winner: Immediate Theatre, Estate-Based Youth Theatres
The Young Carers Award
Winner: Brightside, Bright Carers
Highly commended: MYTIME Young Carers, Memory Making
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Award
Winner: No Limits, Mental Health Model
Highly commended: Bloom, HeadStart Kernow and CAMHS
The Youth Work Award sponsored by the National Youth Agency 
Winner: Edmonton Community Partnership, Dream, Believe, Succeed Project
Highly commended: OneYMCA, Airplay
The Early Intervention Award
Winner: Safer London, Beyond the Banter
The Youth Volunteering and Social Action Award
Winner: OTR Bristol, The Peer Navigator and Peer Representative Programmes
The Children in Care Award sponsored by Halliwell 
Winner: Isle of Anglesey Council, Cartrefi Clyd
NYAS & Madlug, My Things Matter Campaign
The PSHE Education Award
Winner: Stop It Now! Scotland, ROSA Project
Highly commended: Kirton Primary School, Our High Street
The Family Support Award
Winner: Restitute, Supporting Third Party Victims of Crime
The Leaving Care Award
Winner: Drive Forward Foundation, Breakthrough Programme
The Advice and Guidance Award
Winner: NSPCC, Childline Online Services
Highly commended: Lucy Faithfull Foundation, Inform Young People Programme
Highly commended: Hertfordshire Council, Young Pride in Herts
The Workforce Development Award sponsored by Children & Young People Now Jobs 
Winner: Hackney Council, Anti-Racist Practice
Highly commended: Catch 22, Social Switch Project
The Youth Justice Award sponsored by Unitas
Winner: Youth Ink, Peer Support Navigator Network 
Highly commended: The Skill Mill
The Pandemic Response Award
Winner: Team Oasis, Critical Care to Our Whole Community
Highly commended: NSPCC, Helpline and Childline
Highly commended: Wigan Youth Zone, Covid-19 response
The Partnership Working Award
Winner: Early Years Alliance, A Better Start Southend
The Public Sector Children’s Team Award
Winner: Raising Rochdale Integrated SEND Team
Highly commended: Coventry and Warwickshire FDAC
The Children’s Achievement Award
Winner: Chloe Ryan, Participation People
The Children and Young People’s Champion sponsored by Phoenix 
Winner: Cath Pickles, Restitute
The Children and Young People’s Charity Award
Winner: Victim Support
Highly commended: PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide
