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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.