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Supporting schools

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  • Monday, September 29, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Local authorities are expected to ensure all children get a good education, yet their funding and influence over schools has diminished. Joe Lepper talks to councils that are successfully supporting schools despite the challenges.

Welfare of children must be a shared responsibility

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  • Monday, September 29, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Back in 2005, I became responsible for children's services in Dudley. With my new responsibility for social care, I followed the usual learning journey - the "unconsciously incompetent" phase, when I didn't even know what I was ignorant about, to the "consciously incompetent" phase, when I realised how much I didn't know, to the "consciously competent", when I had a better understanding but still did not have any sort of autopilot.

Mutual appreciation

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  • Monday, August 4, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Laura McCardle meets Sandra Richardson, chief executive of Knowsley Youth Mutual.

Residential trips are a priceless commodity

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  • Monday, August 4, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. It is a maxim that could be applied to most of the services for children and young people today - being able to do more with less is a key requirement for any chief executive, middle manager or frontline practitioner.