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Make more time for direct work

Effective social work relies on face-to-face contact with children and families, but bureaucratic processes can often get in the way. Implement strategies that will free up practitioners' time for more direct work.

Leadership: Communicating with families

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  • Tuesday, November 28, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Effective communication with families is essential for every good nursery. Settings should establish a strategy for meaningful, ongoing dialogue with parents that will build on in-person conversations.

Demonstrate trustworthiness

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  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Public trust in charities is at its lowest point in a decade, but there are some key concepts that can help a charity to communicate its trustworthiness to stakeholders and the wider community alike.

Leadership - Leading through self-compassion

Promoting self-compassion can help your staff and teams to recognise and respect their own wellbeing, while reflecting on and seeking to improve the way you operate will help you be a better leader

Motivate staff in a time of austerity

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
    • | CYP Now
It can be tough to maintain staff morale as funding dwindles and caseloads expand, but there are some simple approaches managers can take to boost motivation and even help their workers feel joy.

Successful partnership working

Partnership working has far-reaching benefits for children’s services, ensuring resources go further and best practice is shared. Knowing what makes a successful partnership is key to strong leadership.

Tackling presenteeism

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  • Tuesday, January 5, 2021
    • | CYP Now
A culture that encourages stressed staff to turn up for work while ignoring their health can be more costly to employers than absenteeism. Leaders must learn the skills to safeguard workplace wellbeing.

Leadership: How to win grants

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  • 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.

Leadership: Swearing in the workplace

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  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Leaders must set clear standards of behaviour for all staff to follow and establish a robust complaints and disciplinary procedure to ensure a safe workplace environment for employees and service users.

Leadership: How to be a social leader

Those working in the early years have a shared goal to give children the best possible start in life. Here are six essential elements of leadership that define the social purpose to make a difference.

Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

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  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Joint targeted area inspections began in 2016 with the aim of bringing a range of inspectorates together to assess how health and care services for children are delivered. Jo Stephenson assesses the learning so far.

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the scale of child neglect, its long-term effect on children's wellbeing and how interventions can prevent and repair the damage caused to children's ability to form strong attachments with parents and carers.

Leadership: Developing new services

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  • 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.

How to recruit and retain social workers

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  • 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.

Early intervention leaders' debate

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  • Monday, September 29, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Children's services leaders from councils across England discussed the current challenges of resourcing effective early help services at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with Capita One.

Rethinking job titles

Job descriptions and titles play a huge role in what we expect of professionals and how they perform. Unleash staff’s untapped potential by reconsidering titles that restrict their ability to work effectively.

Embed a culture of safeguarding

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  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Embedding a culture of safeguarding means that it becomes an integral part of how an organisation operates at every level, from managers leading by example to equipping staff with the skills they need.

Frontline staff in the media

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Media training for staff can be a game-changer in engaging with the press, so put trust in your frontline workers to tell stories in their own words and open the door to more authentic coverage.

Appointing an ambassador

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Celebrity ambassadors can bring a wealth of benefits to charities, helping to raise an organisation’s profile and boost fundraising while reaching wider audiences and connecting with service users.

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