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A hammer and anvil analogy for early help

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  • Friday, April 29, 2022
  • | CYP Now
As director of children’s services (DCS) for one of the 75 areas eligible for the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme, I am pleased that the importance of the first 1001 days is being supported in a whole family systems approach.

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.

Save our staff: child ratios

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  • Friday, April 22, 2022
  • | CYP Now
In 2013, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) Elizabeth Truss decided to pursue a plan to reduce staff:child ratios.

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

Plenty on the horizon

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  • Tuesday, April 19, 2022
  • | CYP Now
I am pleased and proud to continue to chair the ADCS Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee.

Receiving the baton at full pace

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  • Tuesday, April 5, 2022
  • | CYP Now
By the time that you read this, the machinery of ADCS will have worked its magic and the baton that Charlotte handed over to me in her last blog will be firmly gripped in my paws.

FASD and the new NICE quality standard

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  • Friday, March 25, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The 16 March 2022 might not have been a particularly interesting day for you, but for people involved in the field of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in England, it was actually a rather momentous day. Let me explain why.

Social work and you

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  • Friday, March 18, 2022
  • | CYP Now
We’re coming to the end of Social Work Week, with its theme: ‘Social Work and Me’.

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.