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Hands up for Care Day

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  • Monday, February 19, 2024
    • | CYP Now
I write this blog with a heavy heart as it will be my last as an elected director of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) board of directors, my three-year tenure will come to an end in May 2024.

Should social enterprise deliver public services?

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  • Tuesday, February 13, 2024
    • | CYP Now
Social enterprises are driven by social justice and deliver a range of public services including health, social care, children, services, education, homelessness, housing, domestic abuse, public health, leisure, culture, employment, training, transport, criminal justice across local, central government and the NHS.

Listening to our children about mental health

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  • Tuesday, February 13, 2024
    • | CYP Now
Across the country we [have been] focussing on Children’s Mental Health week. It is such a great initiative and Place2be has a range of resources for both schools and families.

Begin with the end in mind

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  • Friday, February 2, 2024
    • | CYP Now
As I write my final ADCS blog as immediate past president and prepare to hand over my final ADCS baton to our current president at the end of March, one phrase keeps going round my head “Begin with the end in mind!”

Government trans guidance puts young people at risk

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  • Friday, February 2, 2024
    • | CYP Now
As an ex-teacher, a qualified sex educator and a trans individual, I am fearful that the guidance that government is suggesting schools adopt for their trans students could impact on young people's mental health and wellbeing.

Recalling the impact and value of Sure Start should be seen as a resource

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  • Friday, January 26, 2024
    • | CYP Now
Halfway through reading ‘Risks of returning to Sure Start’ by Rob Wilson (CYP Now January 2024), the deputy chair of the Social Mobility Commission, I genuinely started to wonder if it was not written by a Conservative supporter/commentator who would have been complicit in the decimation of Sure Start since the advent of Conservative governments in 2010.

Rainbow worrier

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  • Friday, January 26, 2024
    • | CYP Now
If I was going to choose a word for 2024 (which I’m not, as that would be quite strange) I think it would be coherence.

Frontline Awards celebrate social work

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  • Wednesday, January 17, 2024
    • | CYP Now
The demands on children’s social workers are greater than ever. Families are still coping with the aftermath of the pandemic, while also facing a cost-of-living crisis that leaves over four million children living in poverty, with one million now classed as destitute.

Tackling persistent absenteeism in 2024

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  • Friday, January 12, 2024
    • | CYP Now
The new year is usually a fresh start but for many professionals who work with children and young people the challenges they face in 2024 will be very familiar.

Can federations weather the perfect storm?

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  • Friday, January 12, 2024
    • | CYP Now
It is 50 years since Home-Start began supporting families in Leicester in 1973. In that time, Home-Start has grown to 180 charities around the UK and our relational support for families and parents has never felt more needed.

Kinship care: an opportunity not to be missed

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  • Friday, January 5, 2024
    • | CYP Now
It’s the day after Boxing Day as I write this blog and I have spent this morning reading Championing Kinship Care: The National Kinship Care Strategy published just before Christmas.

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