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Protect women in pre-birth care proceedings

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 20, 2023
  • | CYP Now
The number of newborn babies subject to care proceedings has more than doubled since 2007, and every year tens of thousands of women have involvement from children’s social care teams during pregnancy and early motherhood.

Help parents tackle risks of radicalisation

    Opinion
  • Thursday, April 20, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Parents have a vital role to play in efforts to tackle radicalisation and extremism among young people being both a source of advice in navigating online risks and an early warning system when problems arise.

When care practice outflanks the law

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
It is 30 years since the Children Act 1989 received Royal Assent and despite the fact it has not subsequently been repealed or even substantially amended, the current "crisis" in the care system suggests that practice has drifted away from two of its key principles: that the state should work in partnership with parents; and that if families can be supported without recourse to the law, they should be.

The importance of dads in the early years

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
During Mental Health Week, the Movember Foundation published its survey on new dads and there was some striking similarities with findings from a consultation we did with men in Blackpool about their experiences of being a new dad.