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Leadership: How to win grants

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  • 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.

Leadership: The key to better contracts

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  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Dwindling budgets increasingly means pressure to prioritise cost-effectiveness over quality when deciding contracts, but a collaborative approach with providers can ensure sustainable solutions.

Leadership: Swearing in the workplace

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  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Leaders must set clear standards of behaviour for all staff to follow and establish a robust complaints and disciplinary procedure to ensure a safe workplace environment for employees and service users.

Leadership: How to be a social leader

Those working in the early years have a shared goal to give children the best possible start in life. Here are six essential elements of leadership that define the social purpose to make a difference.

Five steps to keep social workers safe

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  • Tuesday, February 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Social workers support people in challenging circumstances, but being subject to abuse and violence is never acceptable, so it is important that employers and staff take steps to ensure practitioners' safety.

Leadership: Collaborative working

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  • Tuesday, January 3, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Pooling resources and working together with organisations on a shared cause can be an effective way to achieve positive changes for young people on a national scale that would be impossible to do alone.

Leadership: Realising capacity in social care

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  • Tuesday, February 28, 2017
  • | CYP Now
In straitened times we need to look beyond the entrenched old ideas to truly innovate and deliver better, more flexible people-centric services to the children and families who need our support.

Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

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  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Joint targeted area inspections began in 2016 with the aim of bringing a range of inspectorates together to assess how health and care services for children are delivered. Jo Stephenson assesses the learning so far.

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the scale of child neglect, its long-term effect on children's wellbeing and how interventions can prevent and repair the damage caused to children's ability to form strong attachments with parents and carers.

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