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Don't forget our partners

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  • Monday, April 24, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Like many of us I have been thinking over the last few weeks about our collective and individual responses to the Department for Education consultation on its implementation strategy for children’s social care, Stable Homes: Built on Love.

The simple things that matter most…

    Blogs
  • Monday, June 19, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The varying number of national and regional initiatives, pathfinders and pilots emerging out of the government’s plan to reform the children’s social care system, Stable Homes Built on Love, have occupied many of our regional conversations over the last couple of months.

Cogs in the machine

    Blogs
  • 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).

Every summer has its own story

    Blogs
  • 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 strength of our relationships

    Blogs
  • Monday, October 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
In the eastern region we pride ourselves on a long and successful history of collaboration, co-production and support which has not changed even when the directors of children’s services (DCS) or assistant directors may change around us.

Children need change

    Blogs
  • Monday, November 6, 2023
    • | CYP Now
In 2017 ADCS published the policy position paper, A country that works for all children.

Child exploitation: After awareness, what next?

    Blogs
  • Monday, March 25, 2024
    • | CYP Now
On Monday, 18 March, it was Child Exploitation Awareness Day. Across social media the hashtags #HelpingHands #CEADay24 #CEnomorein24 spread, and advice was shared about the signs of possible exploitation.

Devo, devo, devo…what’s in it for our families?

    Blogs
  • Monday, April 15, 2024
    • | CYP Now
As Spring elections approach, in the North East region we prepare for the birth of our next combined authority, the North East Mayoral Combined Authority (NEMCA) which will snuggle up to the established Tees Valley CA (now 8 years old).

Duty of optimism

    Blogs
  • Monday, January 10, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Well, goodbye 2021, I can’t say that I am sad to see that year go.

Dare to lead

    Blogs
  • Friday, June 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Thinking about the time we have ahead of us as a sector, I have been reflecting on what it means for the kind of leadership that will be required and what kind of leader I will need to be as we move forward?

Getting it right in the early years

    Blogs
  • Friday, May 7, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Three weeks ago today, a generation of children who have spent around a third of their lives in the pandemic found out where they will be starting their school journey in the autumn term.

Leadership in troubled times

    Blogs
  • Friday, July 24, 2020
    • | CYP Now
One of the lasting impressions left by my leadership development training with the Staff College was the idea of “Leadership in Troubled Times – from the swamp to the high ground”. This seems even more relevant now in the most volatile and uncertain of times.

A week is a long time…

    Blogs
  • 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.

Working together

    Blogs
  • Monday, February 13, 2023
    • | CYP Now
At the time of writing, ADCS members across the children’s sector will be reflecting on the government’s response to the independent review of children’s social care.

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