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New term, new ministers, same priorities

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  • Friday, September 23, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I had the good fortune to go to the cricket last week at the Oval to watch England’s run chase (stay with me…) where I heard the sounds of a lone trumpeter sounding out Bon Jovi’s ‘Living on Prayer’.

Attending to attendance

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  • Friday, September 9, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This week has been my first as Chair of the Educational Achievement Policy Committee and I have been reflecting on the busy education landscape ahead as children and young people start the new school term.

The importance of being associated

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  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In my final week of a 42 year very full-time (100 per cent attendance) career, I am being given a number of opportunities for reflection including this blog.

Stop, pause, reflect and repeat

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  • Friday, August 12, 2022
    • | CYP Now
During the pandemic my team were fortunate enough to lead a DfE-funded project, to identify best practice in a pandemic, alongside the University of Birmingham and Anglia Ruskin University, plus five other local authorities and their children in care councils.

The hidden children’s services workforce

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  • Friday, July 15, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Like every director of children’s services, I expect, I have been immersed in the run of policy papers emerging from the Department for Education over the past few months.

At what point do you stop being an imposter?

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  • Monday, June 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I’ve always valued being part of ADCS and, as someone who sits on the Council of Reference, privileged to work with the most talented colleagues (too numerous to mention) to contribute to debate, discussion, and policy shaping that positively impacts on children’s lives.

Dare to lead

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  • Friday, June 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Thinking about the time we have ahead of us as a sector, I have been reflecting on what it means for the kind of leadership that will be required and what kind of leader I will need to be as we move forward?

Standing shoulder to shoulder with kinship families

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  • Monday, June 13, 2022
    • | CYP Now
There are over 150,000 children growing up in kinship care in England today, and with the publication of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care last month, we finally saw some real national recognition of their experiences, needs and strengths – and those of their carers too.

The power of ADCS

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  • Tuesday, May 31, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This blog was first due a couple of weeks ago, but the small matter of an ILACs inspection diverted my attention.

DCS is a role like no other

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  • Thursday, May 26, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I find myself writing this blog at a strange time – two days before I am due to leave Northumberland County Council to take up the director of children’s services (DCS) role in Newcastle City Council.

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