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A busy time for children's services

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  • Monday, October 24, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Autumn is always a busy time for local authorities. Budget setting season is in full swing and each year the task of balancing budgets gets trickier to do with more children and families coming to our attention presenting more complex needs.

It’s a privilege

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  • Monday, July 3, 2023
  • | CYP Now
There has been a lot of chatter in our ADCS groups about retirement in the last few months and I have watched with ‘green eyes’ as a number of longstanding directors of children’s services have announced their retirement plans.

Family Help: a new concept or an old ideal?

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  • Monday, October 2, 2023
  • | CYP Now
I didn’t plan to be researching section 17 of the Children Act 1989 for a masters degree at the precise moment section 17 came under the spotlight in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. But in March 2023, there I was.

NCASC 2023 highlights

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  • Monday, December 4, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Last week colleagues from across both children’s and adult services came together in Bournemouth for the 2023 National Children and Adult Services Conference.

Doing the best job of your life

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  • Monday, February 26, 2024
  • | CYP Now
I do love a quote. It is incredible that human beings throughout history have created so much insight and inspiration through quotes.

New ways of leading

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  • Thursday, April 9, 2020
  • | CYP Now
As I prepared myself mentally for taking on the role of ADCS vice president, I had no idea even four weeks ago that I would be doing it in a world of virtual reality, online meetings and the knowledge that even a food shop or a daily walk needs to be carefully planned.

The political energy of our young people

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  • Tuesday, March 15, 2022
  • | CYP Now
It’s not often that I feel energised and inspired on a wet Monday night in February, but that was exactly how I was left feeling recently after watching the results of Derby’s Youth Mayor elections.

A problem shared…

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  • Friday, October 7, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Do you remember when one of Bill Clinton’s campaign slogans was ‘it’s the economy, stupid’? Or when Tony Blair’s top priority was ‘education, education, education’.

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