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Recruiting a diverse board

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Many charities struggle to recruit trustees effectively, yet a diverse board with a good mix of skills and experience ensures organisations get the scrutiny and guidance that they need to survive and thrive.

Beating burnout

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Former social worker Mike Bush, now a consultant and trainer on mental health in the workplace, advises managers on strategies to help their staff avoid "burning out" and leaving the profession.

Leadership: Scaling up interventions

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Once the value of an innovative intervention for children and families has been recognised, the next step is to effectively implement and replicate it on a scale that can benefit even more people.

Achieving work-life balance

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 28, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Some of the most committed and emotionally engaged workers are children's professionals, so employers must be alert to the dangers of burnout while promoting healthy workplace practices.

Leadership: The key to better contracts

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Dwindling budgets increasingly means pressure to prioritise cost-effectiveness over quality when deciding contracts, but a collaborative approach with providers can ensure sustainable solutions.

How to recruit and retain social workers

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Recruitment and retention challenges in children's services mean councils are searching for new ways to attract and retain social workers. Joe Lepper looks at different approaches and investigates what actually works.

The power of peer networks

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Networking is essential for sharing what works and influencing progress, so it is vital children's and youth services leaders grasp opportunities to build relationships that will help them attain their goals.

Leadership: Preventing a cyber attack

    Features
  • Tuesday, August 29, 2017
    • | CYP Now
The risk of cyber attack has become a clear and present danger and is an issue charity and children's services leaders must be alert to, but there are various protective steps they can take to strengthen their defences.

Safeguarding beyond rhetoric

The absence of powers has made local safeguarding more difficult to tackle, but where leaders have influenced and challenged effectively, success has been achieved, says Jim Gamble.

Leadership: Links between school and home

Parental involvement can be a significant positive influence on a child's educational achievement, so it is important that teachers and families build strong links between children's school and home lives.

The austerity challenge

Richard Selwyn assesses the long-term and hidden costs of public-sector austerity, and asks what can we do about it.

Leadership: Change management

Ensure services transform for the better by developing a successful change management programme across an entire organisation, in which challenges can be identified and addressed as early as possible.

Working with business

Graham Duxbury, chief executive of environmental regeneration charity Groundwork, outlines his top tips on forging long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with businesses to help local communities.

Leadership: Realising capacity in social care

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 28, 2017
    • | CYP Now
In straitened times we need to look beyond the entrenched old ideas to truly innovate and deliver better, more flexible people-centric services to the children and families who need our support.

Leadership: Collaborative working

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Pooling resources and working together with organisations on a shared cause can be an effective way to achieve positive changes for young people on a national scale that would be impossible to do alone.

Leadership: Appointing trustees

    Features
  • Tuesday, December 6, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Charities that fail to appoint effective trustees risk paying the ultimate price, so it is imperative that only the right candidates take on these important positions to ensure effective oversight of decision making.

Leadership: Better working with parents

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 22, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Early years practitioners must not underestimate the importance of cultivating the skills needed to forge good relationships with parents, ensuring children get the right support in settings and at home.

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