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Once upon a time: a care leaver's response to the John Lewis advert

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  • Friday, November 11, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Yesterday was a day. I was at work, I’m a social researcher, and I was in the middle of an online event supporting a couple of care leavers to ‘engage’, while simultaneously writing a research protocol on domestic abuse interventions and responding to a full inbox.

Time to modernise family contact within adoptions

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  • Wednesday, October 19, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Adoption is a lifelong journey. It remains a pivotal option for securing permanence and stability for children in local authority care when they cannot live safely with their birth or extended family.

Love in action

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  • Tuesday, October 18, 2022
    • | CYP Now
We are young people who have experienced child trafficking and exploitation. Since we were trafficked to the UK, we have had contact with many systems and professionals, including the immigration and social care systems, police, lawyers and healthcare workers.

Impact of universal credit cuts one year on

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  • Friday, October 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
It’s March 2020: the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the UK and the government has announced they are increasing Universal Credit, temporarily, by £20 per week. Some of the country’s most vulnerable people have been offered a lifeline, allowing them to stay afloat during the pandemic’s unprecedented times.

Celebrate kinship carers by increasing support

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  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022
    • | CYP Now
During #KinshipCareWeek2022 we rightly celebrate the thousands of kinship carers who make huge sacrifices to keep more than 162,000 children in England and Wales, within loving, safe and stable families; that’s nearly twice as many as in local authority care.

Cared for not catered for…

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  • Monday, September 5, 2022
    • | CYP Now
One of the great privileges of working so closely with an organisation like the United Nations is that it serves as a continual reminder of the large global community of child-focussed organisations that exists beyond our shores.

Will new PM step up for children?

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  • Monday, September 5, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Will Liz Truss, our new Prime Minister, have the courage to do what is needed to protect our most vulnerable children and their families?

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