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Tackling false economies in child services

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2024
    • | CYP Now
I am writing this while rushing to finish work before going on holiday. I know this is a false economy because most things can wait until I’m back, when I’m refreshed; when I will do them better and quicker.

Time to deliver Care Review reforms

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2024
    • | CYP Now
On 23 May, 2022, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care was published, a government-commissioned report into how the children’s social care system could work better for everyone involved, but especially the children in it.

School mental health plans need an update

    Opinion
  • Sunday, April 28, 2024
    • | CYP Now
The idea for mental health support teams (MHSTs) to bridge the gap between school counselling services and specialist therapeutic support in the community came out of the children’s mental health green paper published in 2017 by Theresa May’s government. Plans to introduce MHSTs in a third of schools and colleges by 2023 and to half by 2025 were confirmed the following summer.

Schools must focus on building local relationships

    Opinion
  • Sunday, April 28, 2024
    • | CYP Now
I’ve been talking with education leaders about inclusion and one of the challenges of the current school context that they identified was that attitudes and relationships between parents, children and schools have changed since the pandemic.

Tired remedies won’t end youth knife crime

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2024
    • | CYP Now
There is no doubt that knife crime among young people is rising again, after a dip during the pandemic. In the year ending March 2023, there were 50,500 offences involving a sharp instrument, up by 73 per cent since 2015.

The silent struggle of asylum-seeking children

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2024
    • | CYP Now
In the heart of the debate surrounding the Safety of Rwanda Bill and amidst the heated discussions on immigration policy, it’s critical that we keep our attention firmly on the vulnerable children and young people seeking refuge within our borders.

Banning phones will not make children safer

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2024
    • | CYP Now
We are all aware that mobile phones with access to the internet are now used by most children and young people. However, whether children are on or offline they participate in risk-taking behaviours to experiment and to establish their self-identity especially through the adolescent years.

Charter sets out a ‘just’ offer for children

    Opinion
  • Sunday, January 28, 2024
    • | CYP Now
In 2010, the then coalition government announced the introduction of a triple lock for our senior citizens – a commitment to uprate the state pension every year in line with whichever is highest of earnings growth, inflation, or 2.5 per cent.

Remembering a ‘compassionate and radical’ leader

    Opinion
  • Sunday, January 28, 2024
    • | CYP Now
While there are many things that can be said about Camila Batmanghelidjh, who died in January, few could question her fierce determination and spirit to raising and keeping the needs of young people on the agenda. We shall miss her voice and the sector will miss her courage.

Statutory guidance gives us ‘permission’ to practice

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
    • | CYP Now
A line by poet Oliver Wendell Holmes – “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions” – feels apt when considering the guidance that governs local authority functions and responsibilities to vulnerable children and families.

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