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New Ofsted inspections must show consistency

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  • Tuesday, March 4, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Inspection is a tough brief. Just like a football referee, an Ofsted inspector will rarely please everyone: one minute you are being accused by politicians and the public of being too soft and failing to spot bad practice, while the next, those you regulate will be hopping up and down over a perceived injustice in judgment.

New Ofsted inspections must show consistency

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  • Tuesday, March 4, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Inspection is a tough brief. Just like a football referee, an Ofsted inspector will rarely please everyone: one minute you are being accused by politicians and the public of being too soft and failing to spot bad practice, while the next, those you regulate will be hopping up and down over a perceived injustice in judgment.

Creative thinking is vital for children's centres to survive

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  • Tuesday, January 21, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Barely a week goes by without another council announcing plans to downsize its network of children's centres. From Kent to Bradford, Northants to Nottinghamshire, children's centres, like most other local authority services in England, are being squeezed in the face of unrelenting funding cuts.

Councils need the means to deliver foster care support

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  • Tuesday, December 17, 2013
    • | CYP Now
A little over two months ago, the Fostering Network called on the government to do the right thing - both morally and economically - by extending financial support to foster carers and in doing so enable children they care for to stay in the placement past their 18th birthday and up to 21 if they so wish.

Youth work must tap into education policy spine

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  • Tuesday, November 12, 2013
    • | CYP Now
The admission by minister for civil society Nick Hurd that he is still unsure where council-led youth work fits into the government's future vision for the sector is not the most surprising of revelations.

Children's services need clarity of accountability

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  • Tuesday, August 20, 2013
    • | CYP Now
The government's proposals to transfer responsibility for children's social services in Doncaster from the local council to an independent trust have come under attack from Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones in her detailed response to the plans.

Openness should nip extremism in the bud

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  • Tuesday, June 25, 2013
    • | CYP Now
It is just over a month since the murder of Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby shocked the country, and then triggered a spate of reprisals. In typically strident-sounding fashion, the government set up a "taskforce" - the crisis-management response tool of choice for politicians these days.

One small step for care, one giant leap required

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  • Monday, April 29, 2013
    • | CYP Now
The high-profile cases of children in residential care going missing and being sexually exploited in the past year have sent shockwaves through our society. Last week, the government responded by announcing some important reforms.

We need young people ?on board, ‘warts and all'

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  • Monday, April 15, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Seventeen-year-old Paris Brown quit as the country's first youth crime commissioner in Kent just days after her appointment for posting offensive tweets in her younger days. Her posts were stupid and naïve at the very least, but how many people's adolescence, past and present, are completely free of stupidity?

Families key to success of free childcare plans

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Here is something of a bombshell for the government's £1.7bn programme to offer free childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds: when these children turn five, that provision will have had no impact on their learning and development.

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