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Girl Q: Tips for tackling racism in schools

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  • Tuesday, April 19, 2022
    • | CYP Now
“I don’t know if I’m going to feel normal again. I don’t know how long it will take to repair my box. But I do know this can't happen to anyone, ever again.” GIRL Q

The need for early age-appropriate RSE

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  • Friday, April 29, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In my work as programme and training manager for relationships and sex education (RSE) at Coram Life Education charity, I regularly hear from distressed primary school teachers who feel under-equipped to deal with the increasingly urgent issues of misogyny, sexism and sexual harassment in schools.

A start-up approach to reimagining fostering

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  • Friday, July 15, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The Independent Care Review has highlighted what most of us already knew. The current fostering system is broken – there are not enough foster carers; too many siblings are separated; too many children are moved miles away from their communities, too many young people leaving care struggle in life; and private independent fostering agencies and residential care homes are making a profit on the back of the public sector.

How the UK can level up by bridging the digital divide

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  • Friday, August 19, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The digitisation of our society and workforce was well underway even before the pandemic. The outbreak of Covid-19 forced this process to accelerate at breakneck speed, shifting many jobs, services and communications online.

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.

#Respect4SocialWork campaign urges greater recognition of social workers

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  • Monday, September 20, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Social workers have been placed under immense pressure during the Covid pandemic, working in skeletal teams with staff self-isolating or shielding, and having to change their practice virtually overnight to ensure they could remain in contact with vulnerable children online if not face-to-face.

Tackling online grooming

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  • Monday, March 20, 2023
    • | CYP Now
In a world where new technologies are relentlessly evolving, it can be hard to stay up to date.

Maintaining therapeutic relationships during lockdown

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  • Tuesday, June 23, 2020
    • | CYP Now
The pandemic lockdown presented significant challenges for providers of children's homes. Here, Rhiannon Thomas, therapeutic manager at St Christopher’s Fellowship, outlines how its specialist therapeutic service helped staff working in the settings to maintain support for children and young people and address anxieties that arose.

Learning from Ofsted focussed visits

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  • Monday, November 9, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Inevitably, I was on a zoom call when I received the phone call. We had been expecting it since the start of term – Ofsted were coming to Newham for a focused visit.

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