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My Placement: Andrew Ellery

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  • Tuesday, February 15, 2011
  • | CYP Now
I did my placement last year at Basingstoke College of Technology. I'd worked in statutory social work before and wanted to try somewhere a bit different. I was the first social work student to have a placement there.

DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers

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  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013
  • | CYP Now
In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department's former ministers.

Do we need more men?

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  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Women outnumber men across the children's workforce, particularly in work with young children. Charlotte Goddard investigates whether it matters and what employers could do to redress the balance

Inspection row engulfs Ofsted

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  • Tuesday, December 11, 2007
  • | CYP Now
This year's Ofsted inspections of local authority children's services have been dogged with inconsistencies and confusion to the point where some councils are considering taking the watchdog to a judicial review, CYP Now can reveal.

Strategy gives workforce boost

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  • Tuesday, December 9, 2008
  • | CYP Now
The government will today (Thursday 11 December) unveil a new partnership body designed to represent the entire children and young people's sector as part of the 2020 workforce strategy.

A skills shake-up to keep children safe

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  • Monday, June 25, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Training and professional development for social workers is undergoing major upheaval. Jo Stephenson examines what the changes mean, as pressures continue to intensify to protect children from harm

Expert slams social work practices

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  • Tuesday, January 8, 2008
  • | CYP Now
A war of words has broken out between two leading professionals over controversial social work practices due to be introduced this year, which are a key plank of the Children and Young Persons Bill.

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