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Dormant Assets Act consultation

    Funding
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The government has launched a public consultation on what social and environmental causes should benefit from more than £700m of dormant assets funding in England.

Leadership: Successful succession planning

Children’s social care is rich with experienced and committed leaders, but a manager must be sure to lay the groundwork for a successful transition before the time comes to pass the torch to their successor

Arts-based Learning Fund

    Funding
  • Tuesday, July 26, 2022
  • | CYP Now
This Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) fund provides disadvantaged pupils in formal education settings access to arts-based learning. It is targeted at pupils in state schools, including alternative provision, early years and special schools.

Commissioning Care: Policy context

    Other
  • Tuesday, June 21, 2022
  • | CYP Now
CYP Now’s Special Report on Commissioning Care outlines the key measures in the Care Review, hears from experts across the sector on the impact these could have on services, summarises latest influential research and highlights examples of good commissioning practice involving councils and providers.

Commissioning Care: Special Report

Recommendations in the Care Review aim to improve co-ordination and management in the care market while driving down costs for councils, but some believe the proposals do not go far enough.

Find inspiration to lead in an unpredictable time

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
How are you feeling? Excited? Positive? Exhausted? Despairing? All of these? After two years of a pandemic, even buoyant leaders are saying they’ve run out of strategies to help them steer a course through the next few months, let alone years.

How to be an adaptable employer

Flexible working approaches adopted during the pandemic point to how organisations can embrace the many advantages of being an adaptable employer that welcomes and supports disabled employees.

Remote working in children’s services

Many children’s professionals have been working remotely during the pandemic. Charlotte Goddard looks at the pros and cons and asks whether it could become the norm once the health crisis is over.

Tesco Community Grant

    Funding
  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Beginning as Bags of Help in 2016, the Tesco Community Grants provide much-needed financial support to community projects.

Sustainable Services: Special Report

    Features
  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
  • | CYP Now
‘Eco anxiety’ among young people is rising prompting many to protest over inaction by policymakers. Initiatives are now being developed across children’s services to be more environmentally sustainable.