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Hearing from the experts
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- Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | CYP Now
The Youth Justice Board's (YJB) Young Person Participation Strategy entitled giving young people a voice in youth justice outlines the importance of capturing the views and opinions of young people who offend.
Rapid funder action needed to support children through cost-of-living crisis
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- Wednesday, August 3, 2022 | CYP Now
Across the UK, thousands of charities are currently supporting children and young people through the summer holidays, while the cost-of-living continues to rise.
The benefits of attending a research conference
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- Friday, September 9, 2022 | CYP Now
Every year I try and get LEYF staff to attend and present at the annual EECERA conference. I have been doing this since 2004 , although we have not attended every conference mostly because some places were a bit expensive for us and my conference savings pot wouldn’t stretch.
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.
Lessons on leadership from NCASC22
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- Monday, November 14, 2022 | CYP Now
I attended NCASC22 last week.
Progress, but still much to learn – a reflection on the children’s social care implementation plan
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- Thursday, February 2, 2023 | CYP Now
At What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care (WWEICSC), we focus on using evidence to understand what’s likely to improve outcomes for children.
Unlocking the keys to learning
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- Friday, February 24, 2023 | CYP Now
I expect people that know me well are thinking I would use this blog to make some comments around the government response to the Care Review or the family justice system, but that would be far too predictable…
Valuing social workers and social work
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- Monday, March 27, 2023 | CYP Now
March is here. We’re on the cusp of spring. I can drive to work (and sometimes back home again) in daylight. It must be Social Work Week!
We must deliver effective youth work for all
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- Tuesday, May 2, 2023 | CYP Now
As we invest in the future of our young people, we must put partnership at the heart of sustained change.
Let’s halve school exclusions by the end of the decade
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- Tuesday, May 2, 2023 | CYP Now
Our school exclusions system is failing.
What Albert Square’s teen pregnancy story can tell us about babies born into care
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- Tuesday, July 18, 2023 | CYP Now
Soapland rarely shows social workers and the families they are working with in a positive light.
The power of mentoring in bridging barriers to success
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- Wednesday, August 16, 2023 | CYP Now
It’s results day. You wake up anxious, overthinking and there are so many emotions running through your head. You get to school, open your results and see that you underachieved and/or failed most of your exams. Ouch.
Back to school is a rallying cry for all of us
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- Tuesday, September 5, 2023 | CYP Now
Far too many children have been absent from school. This is an issue that demands national attention.
Allowing children to leave kinship care and enter the care system won’t just cost us money, it will be morally bankrupt
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- Monday, October 2, 2023 | CYP Now
Today, on the first day of Kinship Care Week, Kinship has published new research indicating that more than 19,000 vulnerable children across England and Wales, currently being raised by relatives or family friends, are at immediate risk of entering the care system, as kinship carers struggle to cope without adequate financial support.
As an adult adoptee, I want to see children being put at the heart of adoption
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- Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | CYP Now
My name is Debbie Iromlou and I'm a co-founder of the Adult Adoptee Movement. We are a group of people who were adopted as babies during the forced adoption era.
The same, but different
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- Monday, November 13, 2023 | CYP Now
November can be an odd month. We are not yet at the end of the year but are planning for it.
Residential child care’s Strictly Come Dancing moments
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- Monday, December 11, 2023 | CYP Now
It’s the most eagerly anticipated time of year – the finals of Strictly Come Dancing.
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