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What happened at NCASC 2022?

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  • Monday, November 7, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Delegates met in person at this year’s NCAS Conference in Manchester for the first time in three years to hear from a wide range of speakers across children and adult services.

A busy time for children's services

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  • Monday, October 24, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Autumn is always a busy time for local authorities. Budget setting season is in full swing and each year the task of balancing budgets gets trickier to do with more children and families coming to our attention presenting more complex needs.

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.