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Leadership: The key to better contracts

    Features
  • 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.

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.

The power of peer networks

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Networking is essential for sharing what works and influencing progress, so it is vital children's and youth services leaders grasp opportunities to build relationships that will help them attain their goals.

Greenwich wins praise for progress on SEND reforms

    News
  • Thursday, September 14, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Co-production of services with children and young people has helped Greenwich secure a generally positive inspection report of the area's work on special educational needs and disability reforms.

Qualifications and Training Guide: Directors

    Other
  • Tuesday, August 29, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Leadership roles in children's services are becoming more wide-ranging with those in senior positions increasingly finding themselves responsible for services outside their historical area of expertise. As integrated delivery becomes more established, there is increasing fluidity between the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Learning lessons from the Grenfell tragedy

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 29, 2017
    • | CYP Now
When we think about our priorities for keeping vulnerable children safe, most of the time our minds turn to topics such as child protection services, thresholds, or child sexual exploitation.

Leadership: Preventing a cyber attack

    Features
  • Tuesday, August 29, 2017
    • | CYP Now
The risk of cyber attack has become a clear and present danger and is an issue charity and children's services leaders must be alert to, but there are various protective steps they can take to strengthen their defences.

Safeguarding beyond rhetoric

The absence of powers has made local safeguarding more difficult to tackle, but where leaders have influenced and challenged effectively, success has been achieved, says Jim Gamble.

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