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First 1,001 Days: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Ensuring children are well nourished, loved and interacted with in the first two years is crucial. Sir Michael Marmot's review of health inequalities in 2010 stressed that "what happens in these early years has lifelong effects" on a person's health, wellbeing and life chances.

Class of '78: Gabrielle Jerome

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  • Friday, March 22, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Key learnings for me at Bradford were the unique blend of person-centred practice, and analysis and understanding organisations, reflecting on trends shaping the development of services - social policy, race, disability, gender issues and systemic thinking, and crucially the ability to use one's self as a tool for change.

Class of '78: Shirley Cramer

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Sharing stories with my classmates from our student days at our recent 40-year reunion made me realise just how much we still had in common despite the variety of our work and life experiences over the decades. The Class of '78 had strong core values which are still in evidence today.

Class of '78: Debbie Olley?

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
On hearing of my application to Bradford University the headmistress at my very traditional school was horrified. She told me no one had ever done such a peculiar course and why on earth were two references required - other universities only required hers! ?

Class of '78: Philip Sands

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Deemed a successful group of graduates, 40 years on we are attempting to capture some understanding to inform future decision making.

Class of '78: Alison O'Sullivan

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Forty years ago we started our careers at a time of upheaval and expansion in the public sector following the creation of Social Services Departments in 1971 (following Seebohm) and local government reorganisation in 1974.

Class of '78: David Behan

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
I was born into a proud, working class Catholic family in Blackburn; of Irish extraction and some mystery - illegitimacy and a grandfather who was a "foundling".

Class of '78: Anne Cherry

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
I first worked in Southall during the time of the riots and was immediately challenged by the need to build a considerable understanding of the culture customs experience needs of the Punjabi community.

Class of '78: Rosie Benaim

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
When I joined the Bradford University applied social studies course in 1974 there was a real creative tension around its shift from a traditional "casework" social work training to a "social action" model. As students, we benefited from a lively mix of academic theory and practical training as the course moved from a more paternalistic "welfare" notion of social work to an enabling approach based on rights. ?

Class of '78: Dave Ely

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
I was an unusual student for an undergraduate social work degree. I was just 25, just married, had worked five years in life insurance pensions, followed by three years as a psychiatric nurse during which time I did three A-levels by correspondence course.

Class of '78: Wendy Parkin

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Prior to applying for the applied social studies course at the age of 36, I had passed the 11+, done O-levels and then A-levels in chemistry, mathematics and biology, leading to work in a pathology laboratory as a technician specialising in biochemistry.

Class of '78: Mary Beek

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2019
    • | CYP Now
I was 19 years old when I arrived in Bradford in 1978. Brought up in a stable family in rural middle England, I knew little of individual or societal problems, but I knew I wanted to be a social worker.

E-Safety: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, February 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Results of a survey of 2,000 young people released on Safer Internet Day found two-thirds of eight to 17-year-olds would feel "disconnected" from the world if they couldn't be online. The finding highlight the integral part played by the internet in children and young people's lives today.

Children missing education

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  • Tuesday, February 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Growing concern over the number of "children missing education" has prompted calls for more support and oversight for home educators.

E-Safety: Age Verification and Online Pornography

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  • Tuesday, February 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Internet Matters commissioned this research to better understand parental views around online pornography in light of the forthcoming introduction of age verification on commercial pornography websites.

T Level Extended Work Placement Research

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  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
    • | CYP Now
T-levels is a new two-year learning programme for young people in England that is being phased in from September 2020 onwards that will form a third, technical education alternative for 16-year-olds.

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