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The silent struggle of asylum-seeking children
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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
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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.
Let’s humanise the language of children’s services
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Opinion
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | CYP Now
I want to start with a story about language that highlights how commonly used phrases of a previous era can age badly when viewed through today’s eyes.
Reward longevity to retain and attract childcare staff
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Opinion
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | CYP Now
It is good news that the Department for Education has now launched a national campaign promoting childcare careers. It follows years of lobbying for such a measure from early education organisations.
'Unfit’ asylum transfer scheme needs an overhaul
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Opinion
- Sunday, January 28, 2024 | CYP Now
In 2015, during my ADCS presidency, we set up the voluntary transfer scheme for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) because Kent was becoming overwhelmed by the numbers requiring care.
Charter sets out a ‘just’ offer for children
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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
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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.
Councils need bigger budgets, not handouts
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Opinion
- Sunday, January 28, 2024 | CYP Now
The £600m of extra funding to ease the pressures facing local authorities is the latest example of the government being forced to bail out financially stricken councils.
Statutory guidance gives us ‘permission’ to practice
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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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