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The truth about change

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  • Friday, August 20, 2021
  • | CYP Now
I’ve recently been thinking about what it’s like to be a social worker, or indeed any other profession within the children’s workforce, in the 21st Century.

A remarkable response

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  • Friday, August 6, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Although it has already been said many times and in many ways, I feel it is important for me to once again acknowledge the remarkable response that we have witnessed right across the public sector and beyond since last year.

What we know...

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  • Monday, August 2, 2021
  • | CYP Now
So, as I move into the last few weeks of being a DCS, my colleagues in the Eastern Region very generously gave me the chance to have a last word!

Put your own oxygen mask on first...

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  • Friday, July 16, 2021
  • | CYP Now
For many of us it will have been some time since we heard those words in an airline safety demonstration, but, as we continue to grapple with the pandemic and all it brings, I think it’s a useful phrase to reflect upon.

People are leaving their posts – why must that be?

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  • Friday, July 2, 2021
  • | CYP Now
I recently read a statistic that surprised and shocked me: each year, on average, a third of councils in England change their director of children’s services (DCS). It is surely careless at best and unacceptable and scandalous at worst.

The value of social work

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  • Friday, July 2, 2021
  • | CYP Now
As a director of children's services (DCS), being a qualified social worker is not part of the essential criteria and I know plenty of brilliant DCS colleagues who have found their role though a different route.

EU Settlement Scheme: the deadline is here

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  • Wednesday, June 30, 2021
  • | CYP Now
In 2019, the government launched the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) for European/EEA nationals living in the UK to safeguard their rights after Brexit immigration changes.