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Let’s work out together how best to care for children

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  • Wednesday, September 2, 2020
  • | CYP Now
For me, and no doubt most of you reading this, the fact that society can decide to remove a child from the care of his or her parents, so they can be looked after by other people, is so much part of our daily milieu we barely pause to think about it.

Supporting grieving families during lockdown

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  • Monday, November 30, 2020
  • | CYP Now
People are often intrigued about what it is like to work at Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity and support families with a very sick child, even more so when that support is anticipating or facing the death of the child.

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.

From the royal launch event of Shaping Us

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  • Monday, February 6, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Everyone working in early years knows how important the first years of a child’s life truly are. It is a time unlike any other in a person’s life where the brain develops at an extraordinary rate and all the building blocks for future learning are made.

Emotional health day

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  • Friday, February 17, 2023
  • | CYP Now
One of the most stressful things you can do is move house. On Friday 24 February I, the chief executive of an emotional health charity, am moving house. That same day the charity is celebrating Emotional Health Day. The irony of this juxtaposition is not lost on me!

Government trans guidance puts young people at risk

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  • Friday, February 2, 2024
  • | CYP Now
As an ex-teacher, a qualified sex educator and a trans individual, I am fearful that the guidance that government is suggesting schools adopt for their trans students could impact on young people's mental health and wellbeing.