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Turning the corner on improvement

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  • Monday, January 30, 2023
    • | CYP Now
I can’t believe it’s that time of year again for my blog. I always start January in quite reflective a mood, thinking about the past year and the one ahead.

Trying to remain optimistic

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  • Monday, January 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Does anyone else feel like any downtime we had with our family and friends over the festive period was a long time ago?

What’s on the horizon?

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  • Monday, January 9, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Happy New Year to all and hope you had a good holiday period. Let’s hope this year brings a resolution to some of the long-standing issues that we have been grappling with and also a sense of calm.

Back to the future

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  • Wednesday, December 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (CVAA) is claiming that adoption will save lots of money and we should be pushing more children through for adoption in order to achieve these savings.

A time for serenity

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  • Monday, December 19, 2022
    • | CYP Now
A couple of weeks ago I welcomed Local Government Association (LGA) colleagues to support our development work in the form of a Corporate Parenting Peer Diagnostic.

Mind the gap

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  • Monday, December 12, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This is my first contribution since being elected as chair of the Health, Care and Additional Needs (HCAN) Policy Committee. Putting myself forward for this role was a decision not taken lightly.

I'm a DCS...get me out of here!

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  • Monday, December 5, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Like me, many of you might be relieved that a serving MP wasn’t the winner of this year’s I’m a Celebrity, and you may also, like me, celebrate the fact that a national sporting heroine who also happens to be gay, won.

Change is everyone's responsibility

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  • Monday, November 28, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Change these days usually goes hand-in-hand with budget cuts and, very often, some sort of compromise because of tough decisions needing to be made.

A week is a long time…

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  • Monday, November 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
As I write, it is still a few days until the Chancellor delivers his deferred autumn statement, but by the time this is published we will all be analysing the impact his plans will have on us, our organisations, and our communities and it feels that whatever is announced the winter is going to be a tough one.

Engage in staff:child nursery ratio debate

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  • Monday, November 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In July I wrote a blog calling parents, staff and colleagues to get their heads around the ratio debate and understand why reducing ratios are bad for children, bad for staff and will not reduce fees to parents.

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