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Tackling presenteeism

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 5, 2021
  • | CYP Now
A culture that encourages stressed staff to turn up for work while ignoring their health can be more costly to employers than absenteeism. Leaders must learn the skills to safeguard workplace wellbeing.

Leadership: How to win grants

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
With statutory funding in short supply, grants can enable charities to continue to deliver vital support. But making grant applications stand out requires a range of skills and techniques that must be honed.

Recognising sign language is important for equality

    Other
  • Tuesday, March 29, 2016
  • | CYP Now
On 17 September 2015, the Scottish Parliament passed the British Sign Language (BSL) Bill. The public gallery was packed with Deaf BSL users, many of whom had been banned from signing as children and forced to lip read. It had been a long, hard battle and it was difficult for many to hold back the tears and keep their emotions at bay.

Charities collaborate to speak truth to power

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 20, 2023
  • | CYP Now
The thorough reworking of the Illegal Migration Bill [now Act] as it made its way through parliament is an important reminder of how the charity and community sector speaks truth to power in ways that make policymakers sit up and listen.

Who would want to be a DCS today?

    Other
  • Tuesday, October 15, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Directors of children's services are under ever-increasing pressure and first in the firing line if tragedy strikes. Jo Stephenson examines what the future holds for the role and why anyone would aspire to do it.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

    News
  • Wednesday, October 8, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

How charities can demonstrate social value to commissioners

    Other
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The way public services are commissioned is undergoing considerable change, but charities pitched into competition for funding with private companies have a possible advantage - as long as they can demonstrate the additional social values they provide above and beyond the primary aims of a project.

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