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Putting research into practice

    Features
  • 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.

Challenge Fund 2

    Funding
  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
  • | CYP Now
The Challenge Fund 2, funded by the Department for Work and Pensions, is part of the second phase of the government's Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) programme.

Future Communities Fund

    Funding
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
  • | CYP Now
The Future Communities Fund is the first fund developed out of the Co-op Foundation's 2022-27 strategy Building Communities of the Future Together, aiming to pioneer future communities that are prosperous, fair, diverse, healthy and safe.

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.

The Clothworkers’ Foundation

    Funding
  • Tuesday, November 29, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The Clothworkers’ Foundation is The Clothworkers’ Company’s primary channel for philanthropy, founded in 1977. The company was initially a clothworking business, but now uses its assets to champion charity governance, and support social causes in the UK non-profit sector.

Leadership: How to win grants

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
With statutory funding in short supply, grants can enable charities to continue to deliver vital support. But making grant applications stand out requires a range of skills and techniques that must be honed.

BBC Children in Need strategy

    Funding
  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Children in Need is the BBC's charity which has a mission to ensure every child in the UK is safe, happy and secure and has the opportunity they need to reach their potential.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Directors

    Other
  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
During 2021/22, there were 18 new permanent appointments of directors of children’s services (DCSs), up from 12 the previous year, according to the Association of Directors of Children’s Services. Fewer local authorities are combining children’s and adult services with just 22 “twin hat” directors, the lowest number since 2010.

Dormant Assets Act consultation

    Funding
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The government has launched a public consultation on what social and environmental causes should benefit from more than £700m of dormant assets funding in England.

Leadership: Successful succession planning

Children’s social care is rich with experienced and committed leaders, but a manager must be sure to lay the groundwork for a successful transition before the time comes to pass the torch to their successor

Arts-based Learning Fund

    Funding
  • Tuesday, July 26, 2022
  • | CYP Now
This Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) fund provides disadvantaged pupils in formal education settings access to arts-based learning. It is targeted at pupils in state schools, including alternative provision, early years and special schools.

Commissioning Care: Policy context

    Other
  • Tuesday, June 21, 2022
  • | CYP Now
CYP Now’s Special Report on Commissioning Care outlines the key measures in the Care Review, hears from experts across the sector on the impact these could have on services, summarises latest influential research and highlights examples of good commissioning practice involving councils and providers.

Commissioning Care: Special Report

Recommendations in the Care Review aim to improve co-ordination and management in the care market while driving down costs for councils, but some believe the proposals do not go far enough.

Find inspiration to lead in an unpredictable time

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
How are you feeling? Excited? Positive? Exhausted? Despairing? All of these? After two years of a pandemic, even buoyant leaders are saying they’ve run out of strategies to help them steer a course through the next few months, let alone years.

How to be an adaptable employer

Flexible working approaches adopted during the pandemic point to how organisations can embrace the many advantages of being an adaptable employer that welcomes and supports disabled employees.