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What’s on the horizon?

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  • Monday, January 9, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Happy New Year to all and hope you had a good holiday period. Let’s hope this year brings a resolution to some of the long-standing issues that we have been grappling with and also a sense of calm.

A time for serenity

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  • Monday, December 19, 2022
    • | CYP Now
A couple of weeks ago I welcomed Local Government Association (LGA) colleagues to support our development work in the form of a Corporate Parenting Peer Diagnostic.

Mind the gap

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  • Monday, December 12, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This is my first contribution since being elected as chair of the Health, Care and Additional Needs (HCAN) Policy Committee. Putting myself forward for this role was a decision not taken lightly.

I'm a DCS...get me out of here!

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  • Monday, December 5, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Like me, many of you might be relieved that a serving MP wasn’t the winner of this year’s I’m a Celebrity, and you may also, like me, celebrate the fact that a national sporting heroine who also happens to be gay, won.

Change is everyone's responsibility

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  • Monday, November 28, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Change these days usually goes hand-in-hand with budget cuts and, very often, some sort of compromise because of tough decisions needing to be made.

A week is a long time…

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  • Monday, November 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
As I write, it is still a few days until the Chancellor delivers his deferred autumn statement, but by the time this is published we will all be analysing the impact his plans will have on us, our organisations, and our communities and it feels that whatever is announced the winter is going to be a tough one.

Unintended consequences

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  • Monday, November 14, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This is my first blog for ADCS and I would, firstly, like to thank colleagues for electing me as chair of the Resources and Sustainability Policy Committee. When thinking about what to write unintended consequences came to mind.

What happened at NCASC 2022?

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  • Monday, November 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Delegates met in person at this year’s NCAS Conference in Manchester for the first time in three years to hear from a wide range of speakers across children and adult services.

A busy time for children's services

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  • Monday, October 24, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Autumn is always a busy time for local authorities. Budget setting season is in full swing and each year the task of balancing budgets gets trickier to do with more children and families coming to our attention presenting more complex needs.

We can’t walk away at night

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  • Monday, October 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I am sat writing this blog recovering from a bout of Covid, a sharp reminder that it hasn’t gone and the impact it can have. It’s been miserable and has allowed me to dwell, perhaps too much, on the number of difficulties we all face as we head into winter:

A problem shared…

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  • Friday, October 7, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Do you remember when one of Bill Clinton’s campaign slogans was ‘it’s the economy, stupid’? Or when Tony Blair’s top priority was ‘education, education, education’.

New term, new ministers, same priorities

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  • Friday, September 23, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I had the good fortune to go to the cricket last week at the Oval to watch England’s run chase (stay with me…) where I heard the sounds of a lone trumpeter sounding out Bon Jovi’s ‘Living on Prayer’.

Attending to attendance

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  • Friday, September 9, 2022
    • | CYP Now
This week has been my first as Chair of the Educational Achievement Policy Committee and I have been reflecting on the busy education landscape ahead as children and young people start the new school term.

The importance of being associated

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  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In my final week of a 42 year very full-time (100 per cent attendance) career, I am being given a number of opportunities for reflection including this blog.

Stop, pause, reflect and repeat

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  • Friday, August 12, 2022
    • | CYP Now
During the pandemic my team were fortunate enough to lead a DfE-funded project, to identify best practice in a pandemic, alongside the University of Birmingham and Anglia Ruskin University, plus five other local authorities and their children in care councils.

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