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Time to modernise family contact within adoptions

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  • Wednesday, October 19, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Adoption is a lifelong journey. It remains a pivotal option for securing permanence and stability for children in local authority care when they cannot live safely with their birth or extended family.

Love in action

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  • Tuesday, October 18, 2022
    • | CYP Now
We are young people who have experienced child trafficking and exploitation. Since we were trafficked to the UK, we have had contact with many systems and professionals, including the immigration and social care systems, police, lawyers and healthcare workers.

How to adjust ratios and maintain quality

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  • Monday, October 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
There is little doubt that the recruitment and retention issues facing the sector continue to cause concern and are impacting on the ability of more and more providers to meet the needs of children and parents.

We can’t walk away at night

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  • Monday, October 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I am sat writing this blog recovering from a bout of Covid, a sharp reminder that it hasn’t gone and the impact it can have. It’s been miserable and has allowed me to dwell, perhaps too much, on the number of difficulties we all face as we head into winter:

Ratio revolution?

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  • Monday, October 10, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Rumour has it the former early years minister, and now prime minister, Liz Truss is considering ditching the recently proposed tweaks to adult: child ratios and axing them altogether.

A problem shared…

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  • Friday, October 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Do you remember when one of Bill Clinton’s campaign slogans was ‘it’s the economy, stupid’? Or when Tony Blair’s top priority was ‘education, education, education’.

Impact of universal credit cuts one year on

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  • Friday, October 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
It’s March 2020: the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the UK and the government has announced they are increasing Universal Credit, temporarily, by £20 per week. Some of the country’s most vulnerable people have been offered a lifeline, allowing them to stay afloat during the pandemic’s unprecedented times.

Celebrate kinship carers by increasing support

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  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022
    • | CYP Now
During #KinshipCareWeek2022 we rightly celebrate the thousands of kinship carers who make huge sacrifices to keep more than 162,000 children in England and Wales, within loving, safe and stable families; that’s nearly twice as many as in local authority care.

New term, new ministers, same priorities

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  • Friday, September 23, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I had the good fortune to go to the cricket last week at the Oval to watch England’s run chase (stay with me…) where I heard the sounds of a lone trumpeter sounding out Bon Jovi’s ‘Living on Prayer’.

The benefits of attending a research conference

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  • Friday, September 9, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Every year I try and get LEYF staff to attend and present at the annual EECERA conference. I have been doing this since 2004 , although we have not attended every conference mostly because some places were a bit expensive for us and my conference savings pot wouldn’t stretch.

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