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Adoption system failings harm children’s life chances

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 26, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The adoption system in England is not working for children. There is overwhelming evidence that adoption is an excellent permanence option for children who had the toughest of starts in life. Yet, despite record numbers of looked-after children, only 2,870 adoptions were made in 2020/21 compared with 5,360 in 2015.

Ratios change not the solution to crisis in childcare

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 21, 2022
  • | CYP Now
In July 2021, I wrote about the challenges facing early years education, and issued a plea to the government to supercharge a system that is creaking when it should be thriving. One year on, what is the state of the sector?

Queen’s Speech failed most vulnerable families

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Children and young people in the UK are growing up in some of the hardest times in recent history, where inflation rates are at a 40-year high and the cost of living crisis is hitting every household. Low-income families, who were already struggling, are faring the worst.

Find inspiration to lead in an unpredictable time

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
How are you feeling? Excited? Positive? Exhausted? Despairing? All of these? After two years of a pandemic, even buoyant leaders are saying they’ve run out of strategies to help them steer a course through the next few months, let alone years.