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Leadership: Communicating with families

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 28, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Effective communication with families is essential for every good nursery. Settings should establish a strategy for meaningful, ongoing dialogue with parents that will build on in-person conversations.

Trends in care commissioning

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  • Tuesday, November 28, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Andrew Rome, director of Revolution Consulting, which conducted a financial analysis of the largest children’s social care providers, assesses the implications for commissioners of council care services.

Appointing an ambassador

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  • Tuesday, September 26, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Celebrity ambassadors can bring a wealth of benefits to charities, helping to raise an organisation’s profile and boost fundraising while reaching wider audiences and connecting with service users.

Commissioning: Parent-infant relationship services

Dr Karen Bateson, clinical psychologist and Wook Hamilton, head of development at the Parent-Infant Foundation, outline how a new toolkit can help commissioners develop provision that enhances relationships between parents and young children.

Leadership: Investing in essential skills

Boosting the essential ‘soft skills’ of your team can increase their engagement, effectiveness and long-term commitment to your organisation – and don’t forget to develop your own skills.

Recruiting social workers from overseas

Amid ongoing shortages of social workers, children's services are increasingly turning to international recruitment to fill staffing gaps. Joe Lepper explores challenges and best practice.

Leadership: How to be a social leader

Those working in the early years have a shared goal to give children the best possible start in life. Here are six essential elements of leadership that define the social purpose to make a difference.

Evaluating Impact Special Report

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  • Tuesday, February 28, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Amid debates over whether data should be prioritised over storytelling to measure the impact of services and projects, providers are developing new ways to demonstrate how they improve children's outcomes.

How charities are doing more for less

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The cost-of-living crisis means charities working with children and families have seen costs spiral as demand for services increases. Sector experts and charities discuss key challenges and solutions.

Putting research into practice

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  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Understand which interventions really work through research, and make sure the findings are used by those who can implement policy and practice changes to make a difference in children and families' lives.

Leadership: Developing new services

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 29, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In a time of stretched resources it has never been more important for organisations to ensure new services meet real needs and can show positive outcomes for children, young people and families.

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