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SEND Review: Do we already know the answers?

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  • Friday, July 22, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The political turmoil of the last few weeks has left question marks about the timetable for the Government’s major education reforms, including its special educational needs and disability (SEND) review.

A start-up approach to reimagining fostering

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  • Friday, July 15, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The Independent Care Review has highlighted what most of us already knew. The current fostering system is broken – there are not enough foster carers; too many siblings are separated; too many children are moved miles away from their communities, too many young people leaving care struggle in life; and private independent fostering agencies and residential care homes are making a profit on the back of the public sector.

The hidden children’s services workforce

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  • Friday, July 15, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Like every director of children’s services, I expect, I have been immersed in the run of policy papers emerging from the Department for Education over the past few months.

Youth voice to power: ‘whoever’s in charge work with us’

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  • Friday, July 8, 2022
  • | CYP Now
At the time of writing Nigel Huddleston MP remained the DCMS minister for civil society and youth which oversees youth sector policy, initiatives including grant support for the National Citizen Service, Youth Social Action and the Youth Engagement programme.

At what point do you stop being an imposter?

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  • Monday, June 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
I’ve always valued being part of ADCS and, as someone who sits on the Council of Reference, privileged to work with the most talented colleagues (too numerous to mention) to contribute to debate, discussion, and policy shaping that positively impacts on children’s lives.

Rock-solid principles in an uncertain world

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  • Monday, June 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Ferocious storms, a virulent pandemic, volatile stock markets, airline failure… I almost want to ask what more could possibly go wrong this year. But even I, the least superstitious of people, would feel uneasy about tempting fate like that.

What is to be done about children's advocacy?

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  • Thursday, June 23, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The so-called Bill of Rights introduced into Parliament yesterday will make it even harder for breaches of children’s human rights to be challenged, especially when children or their parents were born outside the UK or have broken the law. This is a sobering moment to reflect on the care review’s proposals for advocacy.