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Leadership: Realising capacity in social care

    Features
  • 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

    Features
  • 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.

Leadership: Staff motivation and retention

All children's services teams face the challenge of keeping staff turnover low against a landscape of tight budgets, so it is essential employers master the skills to retain, motivate and reward employees.

Leadership: Developing new services

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 29, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In a time of stretched resources it has never been more important for organisations to ensure new services meet real needs and can show positive outcomes for children, young people and families.

How to recruit and retain social workers

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Recruitment and retention challenges in children's services mean councils are searching for new ways to attract and retain social workers. Joe Lepper looks at different approaches and investigates what actually works.

Early intervention leaders' debate

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  • Monday, September 29, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Children's services leaders from councils across England discussed the current challenges of resourcing effective early help services at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with Capita One.

Leadership: Appreciating the small stuff

While leaders of organisations are generally expected to drive change from the top, it is important to understand that noticing and participating in the little things can help good practice to flourish.

Rethinking job titles

Job descriptions and titles play a huge role in what we expect of professionals and how they perform. Unleash staff’s untapped potential by reconsidering titles that restrict their ability to work effectively.

Embed a culture of safeguarding

    Features
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Embedding a culture of safeguarding means that it becomes an integral part of how an organisation operates at every level, from managers leading by example to equipping staff with the skills they need.

Frontline staff in the media

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Media training for staff can be a game-changer in engaging with the press, so put trust in your frontline workers to tell stories in their own words and open the door to more authentic coverage.

Leadership: Appointing trustees

    Features
  • Tuesday, December 6, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Charities that fail to appoint effective trustees risk paying the ultimate price, so it is imperative that only the right candidates take on these important positions to ensure effective oversight of decision making.

Social media in the workplace

With social media increasingly being adopted as a communication tool in employees' working lives, it has never been more important to maintain strict boundaries between the personal and the professional.

Appointing an ambassador

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Celebrity ambassadors can bring a wealth of benefits to charities, helping to raise an organisation’s profile and boost fundraising while reaching wider audiences and connecting with service users.

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