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General Election 2024: Achieving good emotional health for all

Friday, June 21, 2024

| CYP Now

The UK is facing a significant mental health crisis. The most recent NHS Adult Psychiatric Morbidity survey found that one in six adults in England had a common mental health condition, which included a range of diagnosable anxiety and depressive disorders.

Build what you want, but you need a confident, skilled population to make it work

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Friday, June 21, 2024

| CYP Now

With party manifestos landing thick and fast ahead of 4 July, what has stood out so clearly is not any one party’s utopian vision of a prosperous future for all, but promises and pledges steeped in pragmatism.

General Election 2024: Manifestos missing strong call for childcare reform

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Monday, June 17, 2024

| CYP Now

The general election is imminent. All the main parties have unveiled their vision for the country. So what do we now know about the future of childcare?

General Election 2024: Investing in young people should be a no-brainer for our next government

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Monday, June 17, 2024

| CYP Now

For nearly 70 years, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) has been helping young people develop life-long belief in themselves, take on new challenges, follow their passions and discover talents they never knew they had.

National service won’t build brighter futures for young people, volunteering will

Blogs

Monday, June 3, 2024

| CYP Now

I deliver more than 2.3 million hours of leadership skills programmes to young people a year – that’s why I know Rishi’s national service scheme won’t work.

How nurseries can better communicate funding complexities to parents

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Friday, May 31, 2024

| CYP Now

Since the announcement of the 2023 spring budget, there has been much debate around the most pertinent topics facing the entirety of the early years sector — the complexities of funded childcare and how this is communicated to parents.

Child mental health crisis: Why it’s important to provide ‘parental pillars’ for employees with kids

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

| CYP Now

Parents are becoming more anxious about their children’s mental health than ever before.

Fair pay, terms and conditions for residential child care workers can be enacted now

Blogs

Monday, May 20, 2024

| CYP Now

Fair pay terms and conditions is in the interests of children, their residential child care workers and the public interest.

Step by step: Supporting youth mental health through physical activity

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

| CYP Now

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme, appropriately as we approach the sporting summer, is "Movement: Moving more for our mental health."

YJB’s new three-year strategy: The role of digital and risk of failure

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Monday, May 13, 2024

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has just published its three-year strategy (2024-2027) and it rightly recognises the challenges of improving positive outcomes for young people, reducing racial disparity, preventing and diverting young people away from the youth justice system and supporting victims.

What should the next government do about the demand for ADHD services?

Blogs

Thursday, May 2, 2024

| CYP Now

I recently attended Parliament for Matt Hancock’s reading of his Neurodivergent Conditions (Screening & Teacher Training) Bill, which thankfully passed to the next stage.

Use ban on smartphones for under 16s as a tool to enhance online safety

Blogs

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

| CYP Now

Conversations around how to improve online child safety continue to gain momentum. Most recently, the UK government is rumoured to be considering a ban on under 16s from being able to purchase smartphones, in a bid to protect them from harmful digital content.

Thinking differently to support children and young people’s mental health

Blogs

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

Solutions that address the entire system are rare. Policies typically address immediate priorities and urgent needs, leaving the long-term, systemic issues unresolved.

Speaking out about care experience

Blogs

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

The time has come, we are out there.

Reflections from 40 years on the frontline in the fight against child sexual abuse

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

| CYP Now

I will always remember the day I first shook hands with a convicted sex offender. It was 1981 in Gloucester Prison. I was 26 years old and working as a probation officer in Hereford at the time.

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General Election 2024: Achieving good emotional health for all

Build what you want, but you need a confident, skilled population to make it work

General Election 2024: Manifestos missing strong call for childcare reform

General Election 2024: Investing in young people should be a no-brainer for our next government

National service won’t build brighter futures for young people, volunteering will

How nurseries can better communicate funding complexities to parents

Child mental health crisis: Why it’s important to provide ‘parental pillars’ for employees with kids

Fair pay, terms and conditions for residential child care workers can be enacted now

Step by step: Supporting youth mental health through physical activity

YJB’s new three-year strategy: The role of digital and risk of failure

What should the next government do about the demand for ADHD services?

Use ban on smartphones for under 16s as a tool to enhance online safety

Thinking differently to support children and young people’s mental health

Speaking out about care experience

Reflections from 40 years on the frontline in the fight against child sexual abuse

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