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A time for serenity

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  • Monday, December 19, 2022
    • | CYP Now
A couple of weeks ago I welcomed Local Government Association (LGA) colleagues to support our development work in the form of a Corporate Parenting Peer Diagnostic.

Mind the gap

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  • Monday, December 12, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This is my first contribution since being elected as chair of the Health, Care and Additional Needs (HCAN) Policy Committee. Putting myself forward for this role was a decision not taken lightly.

I'm a DCS...get me out of here!

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  • Monday, December 5, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Like me, many of you might be relieved that a serving MP wasn’t the winner of this year’s I’m a Celebrity, and you may also, like me, celebrate the fact that a national sporting heroine who also happens to be gay, won.

Change is everyone's responsibility

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  • Monday, November 28, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Change these days usually goes hand-in-hand with budget cuts and, very often, some sort of compromise because of tough decisions needing to be made.

A week is a long time…

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  • Monday, November 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
As I write, it is still a few days until the Chancellor delivers his deferred autumn statement, but by the time this is published we will all be analysing the impact his plans will have on us, our organisations, and our communities and it feels that whatever is announced the winter is going to be a tough one.

Engage in staff:child nursery ratio debate

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  • Monday, November 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In July I wrote a blog calling parents, staff and colleagues to get their heads around the ratio debate and understand why reducing ratios are bad for children, bad for staff and will not reduce fees to parents.

Unintended consequences

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  • Monday, November 14, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This is my first blog for ADCS and I would, firstly, like to thank colleagues for electing me as chair of the Resources and Sustainability Policy Committee. When thinking about what to write unintended consequences came to mind.

Once upon a time: a care leaver's response to the John Lewis advert

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  • Friday, November 11, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Yesterday was a day. I was at work, I’m a social researcher, and I was in the middle of an online event supporting a couple of care leavers to ‘engage’, while simultaneously writing a research protocol on domestic abuse interventions and responding to a full inbox.

What happened at NCASC 2022?

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  • Monday, November 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Delegates met in person at this year’s NCAS Conference in Manchester for the first time in three years to hear from a wide range of speakers across children and adult services.

A busy time for children's services

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  • Monday, October 24, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Autumn is always a busy time for local authorities. Budget setting season is in full swing and each year the task of balancing budgets gets trickier to do with more children and families coming to our attention presenting more complex needs.

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