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Blame games make the job of a DCS untenable
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | CYP Now
Last Friday, the Reading Post published a story about how children's services in the town received only one application for each of the three senior social worker jobs it advertised. On the same day, the Coventry Telegraph reported that 30 demonstrators had gathered outside the city's town hall calling for more action to be taken against the agencies involved in the Daniel Pelka case.
Child safety happens on the frontline, not expert panels
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | CYP Now
The government's belated publication of revised child protection guidance produced one surprising move.
Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices
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Opinion
- Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.
Teenagers must not be the forgotten victims
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 13, 2012 | CYP Now
The education select committee's year-long inquiry into the child protection system could hardly have reported at a more opportune time.
Councils can offer safety net on school standards
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | CYP Now
The drive to put children and families at the centre of services has received a crucial endorsement this month.
Lightweight guidance puts children's interests at risk
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | CYP Now
This government's appetite for reducing regulation, prescription and bureaucracy in services for children is well known. Its desire is, to some degree, understandable. Labour in government did over-prescribe, it did over-regulate and it did micro-manage.
Workforce development must survive break-up
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Opinion
- Monday, March 19, 2012 | CYP Now
The lights are about to go out on the Children's Workforce Development Council, with its functions hived off to a number of separate agencies.
Youth Contract scheme must get the right results
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Opinion
- Monday, March 5, 2012 | CYP Now
The government's attempt to get the most vulnerable 16- and 17-year-olds into education, training or work as part of its Youth Contract is welcome, although not before time.
Army of childminders can help bridge the gap
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Opinion
- Monday, February 20, 2012 | CYP Now
Social mobility is thankfully all the rage these days, and the free childcare entitlement is a crucial policy to help all children get the best start in life regardless of background.
Can social investment really change the world?
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Opinion
- Monday, February 6, 2012 | CYP Now
"There are few moments like this when something happens that can really change the world". That was the proclamation of Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude last summer as plans gathered pace to develop the UK market for social investment. Was he going a bit over the top? Perhaps; but only perhaps.
Government must keep pace with the baby boom
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Opinion
- Monday, January 23, 2012 | CYP Now
While we soldier on through this age of austerity, more and more little people are appearing. England's birth rate has been creeping up for some years now and the Office for National Statistics projects that it will continue to do so for some time.
Guidance is vital to turn youth policy into action
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Opinion
- Monday, January 9, 2012 | CYP Now
Nine months after its conception last March, the government's youth policy arrived into this world six days before Christmas, not exactly kicking and screaming and without much fanfare. Positive for Youth was born after what seemed an interminable but thoroughgoing consultation with the youth sector and young people alike.
Adoption worship will detract from real prize
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Opinion
- Monday, December 12, 2011 | CYP Now
This government has pursued the subject of adoption with more urgency and fervour than any other area of children's policy.
YJB should use reprieve to lock child welfare into the system
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Opinion
- Monday, November 28, 2011 | CYP Now
A clear and concerted campaign has finally stopped the government from piling the Youth Justice Board onto its bureaucracy-busting "bonfire of the quangos".
League tables can be a force for good if given more care
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Opinion
- Monday, November 14, 2011 | CYP Now
League tables appear to be flavour of the month. The Department for Education published local authorities' three-year performance averages for children in care against 15 indicators a fortnight ago. And then children's minister Tim Loughton last week signalled his support for league tables for youth services at the Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services annual convention, which would be scored at least in part by young people.
Government should aspire to early intervention legacy
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Opinion
- Monday, October 31, 2011 | CYP Now
CYP Now joined forces with 4Children to convene a roundtable discussion a fortnight ago with a dozen directors of children's services and chief executives. They were invited to debate a key issue of our times: how to turn the rhetoric on early intervention into tangible improvements in the lives of the mostdisadvantaged children and families. Participants raised a multitude of points. Here are six of the best.
Shared service savings must not be at children's expense
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Opinion
- Monday, October 17, 2011 | CYP Now
Management of children's services will increasingly be a shared undertaking between local authorities that are striving to make savings, if a survey of council decision-makers is anything to go by.
Families need health visitor growth plan to get on track
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Opinion
- Monday, October 3, 2011 | CYP Now
Health visiting occupies a privileged position in these times. Unusually for this government, it is a profession with a national strategy driven from the centre.
NCS must deliver beneath all the packaging and politics
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Opinion
- Monday, September 19, 2011 | CYP Now
David Cameron has promoted his government's flagship youth policy the National Citizen Service with great zeal for many months, and indeed while in opposition for some years.
PM's pet project overlooks the need for skilled professionals
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Opinion
- Monday, September 5, 2011 | CYP Now
When it comes to the causes, Emma Harrison's Working Families Everywhere programme has become Prime Minister David Cameron's post-riot response of choice.
Riot response requires long-term solutions, not knee-jerk policies
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Opinion
- Monday, August 22, 2011 | CYP Now
The violence across English cities this month triggered its own riot - of condemnation, debate and knee-jerk policy pronouncements. In the days that followed the first outbreak in Tottenham, an exercise in national soul searching took place through the media. Yours truly, for one, did the breakfast TV paper review on Sky News.
Current approach to careers advice is not up to the job
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Opinion
- Monday, August 8, 2011 | CYP Now
Our survey this week lays bare the extent to which careers advice and guidance services for young people have become a soft target for local authority cuts.
Embarrassing custody rates require creative solutions
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Opinion
- Monday, July 25, 2011 | CYP Now
The high number of young people held in youth custody in England and Wales has been a cause of national embarrassment. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has quite rightly raised concerns at the levels of young people held in our youth jails in its recent reports. Despite impressive reductions in recent years, more than 2,000 under-18s were in custody in May.
Private finance can intervene now, but not for generations
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Opinion
- Monday, July 11, 2011 | CYP Now
Early intervention is popular right now in theory, but in many areas is being decimated in practice.
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