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The importance of being associated

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  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In my final week of a 42 year very full-time (100 per cent attendance) career, I am being given a number of opportunities for reflection including this blog.

Stop, pause, reflect and repeat

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  • Friday, August 12, 2022
    • | CYP Now
During the pandemic my team were fortunate enough to lead a DfE-funded project, to identify best practice in a pandemic, alongside the University of Birmingham and Anglia Ruskin University, plus five other local authorities and their children in care councils.

The hidden children’s services workforce

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  • Friday, July 15, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Like every director of children’s services, I expect, I have been immersed in the run of policy papers emerging from the Department for Education over the past few months.

At what point do you stop being an imposter?

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  • Monday, June 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I’ve always valued being part of ADCS and, as someone who sits on the Council of Reference, privileged to work with the most talented colleagues (too numerous to mention) to contribute to debate, discussion, and policy shaping that positively impacts on children’s lives.

Dare to lead

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  • Friday, June 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Thinking about the time we have ahead of us as a sector, I have been reflecting on what it means for the kind of leadership that will be required and what kind of leader I will need to be as we move forward?

Standing shoulder to shoulder with kinship families

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  • Monday, June 13, 2022
    • | CYP Now
There are over 150,000 children growing up in kinship care in England today, and with the publication of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care last month, we finally saw some real national recognition of their experiences, needs and strengths – and those of their carers too.

The power of ADCS

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  • Tuesday, May 31, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This blog was first due a couple of weeks ago, but the small matter of an ILACs inspection diverted my attention.

DCS is a role like no other

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  • Thursday, May 26, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I find myself writing this blog at a strange time – two days before I am due to leave Northumberland County Council to take up the director of children’s services (DCS) role in Newcastle City Council.

A hammer and anvil analogy for early help

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  • Friday, April 29, 2022
    • | CYP Now
As director of children’s services (DCS) for one of the 75 areas eligible for the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme, I am pleased that the importance of the first 1001 days is being supported in a whole family systems approach.

Plenty on the horizon

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  • Tuesday, April 19, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I am pleased and proud to continue to chair the ADCS Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee.

Receiving the baton at full pace

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  • Tuesday, April 5, 2022
    • | CYP Now
By the time that you read this, the machinery of ADCS will have worked its magic and the baton that Charlotte handed over to me in her last blog will be firmly gripped in my paws.

Social work and you

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  • Friday, March 18, 2022
    • | CYP Now
We’re coming to the end of Social Work Week, with its theme: ‘Social Work and Me’.

The political energy of our young people

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  • Tuesday, March 15, 2022
    • | CYP Now
It’s not often that I feel energised and inspired on a wet Monday night in February, but that was exactly how I was left feeling recently after watching the results of Derby’s Youth Mayor elections.

Leaders of steel

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  • Monday, March 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
It’s a sobering realisation to know that I started to learn some of the fundamentals of economics in the heady time of the 1980s!

The recruitment and retention challenge

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  • Friday, February 18, 2022
    • | CYP Now
When I was asked to write the ADCS blog for the Eastern region, I inevitably thought about some of the challenges that we are facing in my own local authority, Southend, and the challenges we share more widely - the recruitment and retention of social workers sprang to my mind.

The challenges and expectations of the social worker role

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  • Monday, February 14, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I can’t have been the only director of children’s services who was saddened and disappointed at the targeting of social workers and colleague directors following the recent tragic deaths of children at the hands of their parents who should love and care for them.

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