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Celebrating diversity and making positive change

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  • Monday, October 16, 2023
  • | CYP Now
October marks Black History Month, where countries across the world stop and take the time to recognise and celebrate the considerable achievements and contributions of Black people throughout our history and right up to the present day.

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.

It’s all about care

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  • Monday, September 25, 2023
  • | CYP Now
It’s a huge privilege to become an elected director for the ADCS Board of Directors and to be writing my first ADCS blog; I want to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all colleagues who have warmly welcomed me into the ADCS family.

Attendance is everyone's business

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  • Monday, September 11, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Students up and down the country have been returning to school, or beginning at their new school after a well deserved summer holiday, even if the weather hasn’t really resembled much of a summer…

Talking must now lead to plan of action

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  • Monday, September 4, 2023
  • | CYP Now
I’m writing this blog before I’m due to go on holiday and hoping the fiasco with the air traffic control fault is resolved soon so we can get away to a warmer and sunnier climate.

Reflections from the North West

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  • Tuesday, August 29, 2023
  • | CYP Now
I write this having recently been talking with my team about a very difficult placement sufficiency ‘market’ (how we come to use the language we do about children needing loving homes is beyond me!).

Every summer has its own story

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  • Monday, August 21, 2023
  • | CYP Now
As I write this blog in a local café, the radio announces that 15 asylum-seekers have boarded the barge in Portland.

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

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  • Monday, August 14, 2023
  • | CYP Now
The privilege of being a member of ADCS, a member of our Council of Reference and the chair of the ADCS Migrant Families Taskforce means that I have access, on your behalf, to senior colleagues in central government departments and on occasion access to experiences that may not usually be available.

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