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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.

The call to keep families together

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  • Wednesday, March 9, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The 1989 Children Act is still the underpinning framework for our system of child protection and it is to the credit to legislators of that time that it still stands over 30 years later as a remarkably robust foundation for our children’s services in England.

Leaders of steel

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  • Monday, March 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
It’s a sobering realisation to know that I started to learn some of the fundamentals of economics in the heady time of the 1980s!

Why the early years must be levelled up without delay

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  • Monday, February 28, 2022
    • | CYP Now
With all the fuss about ‘Partygate’ and too many unpleasant images of our Prime Minister being shared by angry, vindictive ex-colleagues – you may have been forgiven for missing the government’s Levelling Up White Paper led by Michael Gove.

The recruitment and retention challenge

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  • Friday, February 18, 2022
    • | CYP Now
When I was asked to write the ADCS blog for the Eastern region, I inevitably thought about some of the challenges that we are facing in my own local authority, Southend, and the challenges we share more widely - the recruitment and retention of social workers sprang to my mind.

The challenges and expectations of the social worker role

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  • Monday, February 14, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I can’t have been the only director of children’s services who was saddened and disappointed at the targeting of social workers and colleague directors following the recent tragic deaths of children at the hands of their parents who should love and care for them.

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