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The massive impact of health visits

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  • Monday, September 4, 2023
    • | CYP Now
At the annual Adventures with Alice Pedagogy and Play Residential, I listened to Suzanne Zeedyck speak passionately about the importance of connecting with babies. In particular, helping parents and Early Years staff understand the importance of this connection.

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.

The power of mentoring in bridging barriers to success

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  • Wednesday, August 16, 2023
    • | CYP Now
It’s results day. You wake up anxious, overthinking and there are so many emotions running through your head. You get to school, open your results and see that you underachieved and/or failed most of your exams. Ouch.

Time to rethink our ageist attitudes

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  • Monday, August 14, 2023
    • | CYP Now
What happens when a crisis just becomes the way we live? It starts to describe the staffing shortage situation. It would seem after Covid thousands of people never returned to work. They simply vanished!

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.

New evidence for #YouthVoice impact

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  • Monday, July 24, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The government’s youth directorate (DCMS) has just shared a new Youth Engagement Impact Study which it commissioned into the work of the UK Youth Parliament (at the British Youth Council) and Youth Policy Development Group (at ShoutOutUK) between 2021-2023.

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.

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