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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.

Commissioning: Parent-infant relationship services

Dr Karen Bateson, clinical psychologist and Wook Hamilton, head of development at the Parent-Infant Foundation, outline how a new toolkit can help commissioners develop provision that enhances relationships between parents and young children.

Rebel with a cause

Lauren Higgs talks to David Simmonds, chair of the LGA's children and young people board

Challenges of 2012/13: The debate

Senior local government figures thrashed out the challenges for children's services in the financial year ahead at a debate organised by CYP Now and 4Children. Ravi Chandiramani reports

Children’s services inspection

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted says the children’s services inspection regime is working well, but an independent assessment found areas for improvement. The ADCS’s Steve Crocker tells Jo Stephenson how ILACS can be refined.

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.

Remote working in children’s services

Many children’s professionals have been working remotely during the pandemic. Charlotte Goddard looks at the pros and cons and asks whether it could become the norm once the health crisis is over.

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.

Guide to Outcomes-based Commissioning

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  • Monday, February 22, 2021
    • | CYP Now
As local authorities come under growing pressure to manage increasing demand for children’s services heightened by the pandemic, Bloom’s innovative model helps councils commission quality providers across a range of services based on meeting agreed outcomes.

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.

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