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A Christmas Carol

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  • Monday, December 16, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Predicting the future is always a fool’s game but thinking about the future of children’s services before knowing government policy for the next five years seems particularly foolish… although that’s never stopped me before!

Five ways to tackle post-Covid challenges for children's services

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  • Wednesday, June 17, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Latest research from the Children’s Services Funding Alliance, of which Barnardo’s is a member, estimates that between 2010/11 and 2018/19, funding for children’s and young people’s services has fallen by 23 per cent, from £9.7 to £7.4 billion, while funding per child and young person has fallen by an estimated 26 per cent from £571 to £425.

Doing the impossible

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  • Friday, May 28, 2021
  • | CYP Now
I want to start this blog with a quote from Francis of Assisi: “Start by doing what’s necessary; then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” - I think it’s what all of us working in children’s services do.

A digital bonanza?

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  • Friday, July 31, 2020
  • | CYP Now
I would like to begin this blog by paying tribute to Dave Hill who was my predecessor as director of children’s services in Essex, and a tough act to follow!

What a difference a year makes

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  • Thursday, October 1, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Who could have foreseen the change the pandemic has wrought, in our working lives and at home and how the relationship between the two has been altered so much?

A message of thanks

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  • Tuesday, April 21, 2020
  • | CYP Now
When I agreed to write a blog for ADCS last year, no one told me that my slot would fall right in the middle of a global pandemic where home-working has become the norm and conference calls the default for us all.

Community Spirit

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  • Tuesday, May 19, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Covid-19 has understandably consumed nearly all of our attention over the past couple of months.

Five tasks for the incoming children’s commissioner

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  • Monday, August 10, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Each regeneration of Doctor Who brings strong visions of the person and role that are shared publicly - that’s the sort of energy we need now that the job of the children’s commissioner for England has been advertised.

Making schools 'Covid secure' in the Bi-borough

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  • Tuesday, August 25, 2020
  • | CYP Now
We all know children are resilient and can adapt with a swiftness many adults struggle to achieve. So, as rules and regulations around lockdown have changed, young people too have had to keep up with the constant shifting and reworking of the way we can and cannot interact in order to keep each other safe.

An opportunity for meaningful change

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  • Monday, June 22, 2020
  • | CYP Now
All schools and colleges across the country are now allowed to open more widely to children if they feel able to as lockdown measures are being slowly eased.

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