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Setting our priorities for the year ahead

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  • Friday, April 3, 2020
  • | CYP Now
This week marks my first as ADCS president. It promises to be an interesting and eventful year, more eventful than I realised it would be when I decided to stand for the role at the end of 2018!

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.

Trying to remain optimistic

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  • Monday, January 23, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Does anyone else feel like any downtime we had with our family and friends over the festive period was a long time ago?

Determining the nature of sound

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  • Monday, June 14, 2021
  • | CYP Now
It’s four weeks since many local authorities were involved in overseeing local elections and, Milton Keynes being a unitary council with ‘no overall control’, we are getting used to the beginning of a new leadership termed as a ‘Progressive Alliance’.

Let's invest in our children and young people

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  • Friday, October 8, 2021
  • | CYP Now
It’s that time again when we will soon find out what budget challenges we will face going forward and what if any good news may come to enable us to meet the increasing needs of children, young people and their families.

The power of ADCS

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  • Tuesday, May 31, 2022
  • | CYP Now
This blog was first due a couple of weeks ago, but the small matter of an ILACs inspection diverted my attention.

The hidden children’s services workforce

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  • Friday, July 15, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Like every director of children’s services, I expect, I have been immersed in the run of policy papers emerging from the Department for Education over the past few months.

The importance of permanency and belonging

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  • Friday, May 26, 2023
  • | CYP Now
As we near the end of Foster Care Fortnight I have been reflecting on both the importance of foster carers across the country and also the importance of permanence and belonging for our children in care.

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