Feedback from staff has been positive, Clack says. Picture: EYVR

Training Spotlight: Early years students use VR to hone safeguarding skills

Digital technology has the potential to change the way children’s services departments function. Picture: Seventyfour/Adobe Stock

Special Report: Digital Solutions in Children’s Services

Children's Services
Pathways is delivered through a combination of in-person and online sessions. Picture: Frontline

Pathways funding axe: What next for children's services leadership training?

Social Care
Vanessa Longley: exclusions ‘just pass the problem on’. Picture: Chance UK

Interview: Vanessa Longley, chief executive, Chance UK

Health
A DfE consultation puts forward plans on how the government can aid the recruitment and retention of childminders. Picture: Zamrnuti Tonovi/Adobe Stock

Fresh start for childminding

Early Years
The London borough is in the 20% most deprived councils in England. Picture: Nigel/Adobe Stock

Local Spotlight: Lewisham Council

Social Care
Childminders can play a key role in providing childcare before and after school. Picture: Africa Studio/Adobe Stock

Five tips for councils to support childminders

Childminding
The May edition of CYP Now is packed with news, features and best practice.

In May’s CYP Now: Childminder SOS, digital solutions in children’s services, BYC closure

Children's Services
Anne Longfield: 'schools have a crucial role to play in supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing'. Picture: Centre for Young Lives

Longfield think-tank calls for expansion of school mental health support teams

Health
Just 15% of children in England are in kinship foster care arrangements. Picture: Halfpoint/Adobe Stock

Kinship foster care ‘not explored as an option’ for most children, research warns

Social Care
Staff say cuts in government funding to run the UK Youth Parliament over the past decade piled pressure on the BYC. Picture: Andy Bailey/UK Youth Parliament

British Youth Council: five factors behind demise of youth voice stalwart

Youth Work
Andy Smith is also director of children and adult services at Derby City Council. Picture: ADCS

Key children’s services challenges to shape next ADCS presidency

Social Care