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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.

Time to modernise family contact within adoptions

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  • Wednesday, October 19, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Adoption is a lifelong journey. It remains a pivotal option for securing permanence and stability for children in local authority care when they cannot live safely with their birth or extended family.

Love in action

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  • Tuesday, October 18, 2022
    • | CYP Now
We are young people who have experienced child trafficking and exploitation. Since we were trafficked to the UK, we have had contact with many systems and professionals, including the immigration and social care systems, police, lawyers and healthcare workers.

How to adjust ratios and maintain quality

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  • Monday, October 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
There is little doubt that the recruitment and retention issues facing the sector continue to cause concern and are impacting on the ability of more and more providers to meet the needs of children and parents.

We can’t walk away at night

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  • Monday, October 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I am sat writing this blog recovering from a bout of Covid, a sharp reminder that it hasn’t gone and the impact it can have. It’s been miserable and has allowed me to dwell, perhaps too much, on the number of difficulties we all face as we head into winter:

Ratio revolution?

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  • Monday, October 10, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Rumour has it the former early years minister, and now prime minister, Liz Truss is considering ditching the recently proposed tweaks to adult: child ratios and axing them altogether.

A problem shared…

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  • Friday, October 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Do you remember when one of Bill Clinton’s campaign slogans was ‘it’s the economy, stupid’? Or when Tony Blair’s top priority was ‘education, education, education’.

Impact of universal credit cuts one year on

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  • Friday, October 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
It’s March 2020: the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the UK and the government has announced they are increasing Universal Credit, temporarily, by £20 per week. Some of the country’s most vulnerable people have been offered a lifeline, allowing them to stay afloat during the pandemic’s unprecedented times.

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