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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.

Exposing the unhelpful rules and regulations in early education

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  • Wednesday, June 22, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I recently had the opportunity to attend (in person) the launch of new research: Implications of COVID for Early Childhood Education and Care in England, a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation, that was carried out by the Centre for Evidence and Implementation, the University of East London, Frontier Economics, Coram Family and Childcare and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Dare to lead

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  • Friday, June 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Thinking about the time we have ahead of us as a sector, I have been reflecting on what it means for the kind of leadership that will be required and what kind of leader I will need to be as we move forward?

Understanding early trauma

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  • Monday, June 13, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The term ‘trauma’ is much used but less understood. It’s become commonly adopted by those discussing mental health, given that understanding trauma’s causes and effects, particularly for children, is a key component of the challenge we face.

Standing shoulder to shoulder with kinship families

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  • Monday, June 13, 2022
    • | CYP Now
There are over 150,000 children growing up in kinship care in England today, and with the publication of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care last month, we finally saw some real national recognition of their experiences, needs and strengths – and those of their carers too.

No time to lose in implementing review recommendations

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  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Last week the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care called for a “radical reset” and the National Review into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson said child protection needs to “change fundamentally”.

The power of ADCS

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  • Tuesday, May 31, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This blog was first due a couple of weeks ago, but the small matter of an ILACs inspection diverted my attention.

DCS is a role like no other

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  • Thursday, May 26, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I find myself writing this blog at a strange time – two days before I am due to leave Northumberland County Council to take up the director of children’s services (DCS) role in Newcastle City Council.

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