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Statutory guidance gives us ‘permission’ to practice

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
    • | CYP Now
A line by poet Oliver Wendell Holmes – “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions” – feels apt when considering the guidance that governs local authority functions and responsibilities to vulnerable children and families.

We need a joined-up strategy for children

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
    • | CYP Now
The situation facing many children in this country is at crisis point. More families are finding themselves in desperate circumstances, whether that’s due to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis or because early intervention support has been starved of resources due to cuts to children’s social care budgets and funds being diverted towards late interventions.

Three key sector issues for a general election year

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
    • | CYP Now
In all likelihood 2024 will be a general election year, with the outcome at the polls setting the policy agenda for the rest of the decade. For children and families services, three issues could play a key role in the campaign.

A five-point plan for urgent youth custody reform

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
    • | CYP Now
“Youth custody needs urgent reform,” shouted a recent headline. They were not the words of a children’s right lobbyist or penal reformer, but from the newly appointed chief executive of the Youth Justice Board (YJB), Stephanie Roberts-Bibby. A voice from inside government. This is surely significant.

The cost of leaving

    Opinion
  • Thursday, November 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
It’s hard writing about the end of our 81-year-old charity when the job we set out to achieve is not truly done.

We need a national strategy to uphold children’s rights

    Opinion
  • Thursday, November 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
In May, Children England published the Vision for a ChildFair State, the culmination of four years’ work with a group of young people to define the central pillars of support that should be available to every child in every community.

Six reasons to support, not condemn, young people

    Opinion
  • Thursday, October 19, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The number of young people killed this year has already surpassed the total for the whole of 2022. When lives are taken in such a way, it becomes easy to vilify or hang the blame somewhere in the search of answers.

Virtual schools’ expanded remit needs more cash

    Opinion
  • Thursday, September 21, 2023
    • | CYP Now
In the post-pandemic era of hybrid working, for most people the term “virtual school” is likely to conjure up a vision of home learning online. However, the function played by virtual schools is quite different. As a statutory service within England’s local authorities, they are designed to support the educational progress of children in care.

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