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Leadership: Staff motivation and retention

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

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: Involving young service users

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

| CYP Now

Involving young people in shaping services can transform their lives and those of others. However, participation must be meaningful, fun, interactive and may generate outcomes you are not expecting.

Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

| CYP Now

As major political and policy changes continue to impact on the children and young people's workforce, Charlotte Goddard takes a comprehensive look at the qualification requirements and training available.

Daily roundup: Benefit cap, DCS appointment, and looked-after children

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Friday, December 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Struggling families set to be hit by benefit cap, say poverty campaigners; new director of children's services in Leicestershire; and improvements to the care system in Scotland are too slow, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Democracy, care applications, and parenting

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Childcare minister brands celebrity's no vote message "sad"; care applications rise again; and children with married parents less antisocial than those brought up in unmarried homes say researchers, all in the news today.

Complete communicator

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett meets Anna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau.

Ask the Experts: Bereavement, YOI education support, youth work news project and spring in the nursery

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on helping bereaved children, education support in YOIs, a youth work news project and celebrating spring.

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Qualification requirements and training provision for working with children and young people is continuously adapting in line with changes in policy and practice. Charlotte Goddard provides a comprehensive overview.

Architect of inspection: Jacky Tiotto, director of children's services, Bexley

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes meets Jacky Tiotto, director of children's services at Bexley Council.

Daily roundup: Child trafficking, early intervention and academies

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Monday, April 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Charities say Working Together fails child trafficking victims, Early Intervention Foundation launches, and Coventry poised to fight academies, all in the news today.

Evidencing outcomes on the agenda as the next Spending Review looms

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

| CYP Now

CYP Now's Outcomes Conference earlier this month brought together leaders in children's services across the voluntary sector, local authorities and government to debate the way ahead for evidencing what works.