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Building a workforce for the future

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  • Monday, November 20, 2023
    • | CYP Now
I was recruited as one of 16 international social workers arriving from Southern Africa in 2003. What is striking are the parallels of 20 years ago and now. Key issues for international social workers remain such as arriving in teams that are struggling with recruitment and retention issues and high caseloads whilst being expected to hit the ground running within weeks of arriving.

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.

Children need change

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  • Monday, November 6, 2023
    • | CYP Now
In 2017 ADCS published the policy position paper, A country that works for all children.

The strength of our relationships

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  • Monday, October 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
In the eastern region we pride ourselves on a long and successful history of collaboration, co-production and support which has not changed even when the directors of children’s services (DCS) or assistant directors may change around us.

Celebrating diversity and making positive change

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  • Monday, October 16, 2023
    • | CYP Now
October marks Black History Month, where countries across the world stop and take the time to recognise and celebrate the considerable achievements and contributions of Black people throughout our history and right up to the present day.

Family Help: a new concept or an old ideal?

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  • Monday, October 2, 2023
    • | CYP Now
I didn’t plan to be researching section 17 of the Children Act 1989 for a masters degree at the precise moment section 17 came under the spotlight in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. But in March 2023, there I was.

It’s all about care

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  • Monday, September 25, 2023
    • | CYP Now
It’s a huge privilege to become an elected director for the ADCS Board of Directors and to be writing my first ADCS blog; I want to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all colleagues who have warmly welcomed me into the ADCS family.

Attendance is everyone's business

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  • Monday, September 11, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Students up and down the country have been returning to school, or beginning at their new school after a well deserved summer holiday, even if the weather hasn’t really resembled much of a summer…

Talking must now lead to plan of action

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  • Monday, September 4, 2023
    • | CYP Now
I’m writing this blog before I’m due to go on holiday and hoping the fiasco with the air traffic control fault is resolved soon so we can get away to a warmer and sunnier climate.

Reflections from the North West

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  • Tuesday, August 29, 2023
    • | CYP Now
I write this having recently been talking with my team about a very difficult placement sufficiency ‘market’ (how we come to use the language we do about children needing loving homes is beyond me!).

Every summer has its own story

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  • Monday, August 21, 2023
    • | CYP Now
As I write this blog in a local café, the radio announces that 15 asylum-seekers have boarded the barge in Portland.

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

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  • Monday, August 14, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The privilege of being a member of ADCS, a member of our Council of Reference and the chair of the ADCS Migrant Families Taskforce means that I have access, on your behalf, to senior colleagues in central government departments and on occasion access to experiences that may not usually be available.

Cogs in the machine

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  • Monday, August 7, 2023
    • | CYP Now
As August arrives, holiday season and allegedly some warmer weather, our colleagues at Ofsted tend not to be focused on inspections (although we are hearing of one or two monitoring visits).

Please mind the (mental health) gap

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  • Monday, July 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Cast your mind back to January 2021, the country is in its third and most miserable lockdown, schools are closed to the majority of children again and not even the weather or novelty of a staying home is there to ease the pain. I remember worrying right at the beginning of lockdown just what this would mean for our children’s mental health and sadly it didn’t take long to find out.

Lessons in life

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  • Monday, July 24, 2023
    • | CYP Now
At the end of this month, I will be moving from my familiar surroundings of the West Midlands to the North West where I am taking on my new role of corporate director of children and young people’s services in Liverpool.

It’s a privilege

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  • Monday, July 3, 2023
    • | CYP Now
There has been a lot of chatter in our ADCS groups about retirement in the last few months and I have watched with ‘green eyes’ as a number of longstanding directors of children’s services have announced their retirement plans.

How do we achieve an inclusive education system?

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  • Monday, June 26, 2023
    • | CYP Now
As we come to the end of another academic year, I thought it was timely to focus on one of my priorities for my presidential year; to set out our ambition for an inclusive education system that enables all children to fulfil their potential.

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