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LGA study is basis for fairer funding debate

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Having worked at a senior level in a shire county (Somerset), a large city (Birmingham), and a medium-sized unitary (Dudley), I didn't need research to tell me that they are all very different.

We need a broad definition of children in need

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 29, 2018
    • | CYP Now
When the government announced its review of children in need, a legal definition of children supported by social care who have safeguarding and welfare needs, we hoped it would have a wide remit and seek to understand how well these children's needs are being met.

Will new ministers have any new ideas?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018
    • | CYP Now
It is still too early to offer any well-informed predictions of what to expect from new Education Secretary Damian Hinds and his ministers at the Department for Education.

Children Act well-intentioned duty now unrealistic

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 28, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Often while walking between meetings my mind wanders back to the now familiar place it likes to pause: how to reconcile rising demand and reducing resource with high expectations that local authorities can and will minimise error in our child protection system.

Co-production vital across child services

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2017
    • | CYP Now
The first session of this year's Conservative Party conference is set to focus on education, housing and political participation. All three policy issues have, in recent years, under the same party's watch, produced deep fissures of concern, pushing many young people to the margins and causing anxiety, frustration and sometimes alienation. At the heart of this lies a dramatic deterioration in the subjective emotional wellbeing of children and young people, who are struggling to find out where they fit in the modern world. The Children's Society Good Childhood report 2017 is testament to that.

Election will determine children's future

    Opinion
  • Thursday, May 4, 2017
    • | CYP Now
It may be a "snap" general election, but it would be a stretch to describe it as a shock - many people had expected one to follow even more swiftly from the political upheavals of last summer.

North Wales scandals must produce legacy of listening

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 26, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Listening to children and young people has never been more important. The need for strong leadership and vision, coupled with a cross-party approach to children and young people's services, is crucial. That was my message to the National Assembly for Wales' children and young people committee as I outlined my annual report for 2012/13 and reflected on the work of my office during the past 12 months.

Blame games make the job of a DCS untenable

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 15, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Last Friday, the Reading Post published a story about how children's services in the town received only one application for each of the three senior social worker jobs it advertised. On the same day, the Coventry Telegraph reported that 30 demonstrators had gathered outside the city's town hall calling for more action to be taken against the agencies involved in the Daniel Pelka case.

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