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A Christmas Carol

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  • Monday, December 16, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Predicting the future is always a fool’s game but thinking about the future of children’s services before knowing government policy for the next five years seems particularly foolish… although that’s never stopped me before!

Belonging

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  • Monday, January 27, 2020
  • | CYP Now
This is my first blog since becoming ADCS Honorary Secretary and there were a number of contenders for what to write about: increasing numbers of children in care, child sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation or the impact on staff of the regulatory world that we work in.

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.

Attendance is everyone's business

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  • Monday, September 11, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Students up and down the country have been returning to school, or beginning at their new school after a well deserved summer holiday, even if the weather hasn’t really resembled much of a summer…

A piece of cake

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  • Monday, March 18, 2024
  • | CYP Now
Ofsted has just launched its Big Listen as it seeks views from the sector, parents, carers and children and young people.

A moment of joy at Norfolk SENDfest

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  • Monday, June 17, 2024
  • | CYP Now
When sitting down wondering what to write in this blog, I thought I know, I must share what has been a real moment of joy in the past week, and give a big shout out to the incredible work of so many staff in Norfolk coming together to support our population of children with SEND and their families.

The recruitment and retention challenge

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  • Friday, February 18, 2022
  • | CYP Now
When I was asked to write the ADCS blog for the Eastern region, I inevitably thought about some of the challenges that we are facing in my own local authority, Southend, and the challenges we share more widely - the recruitment and retention of social workers sprang to my mind.

Doing the impossible

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  • Friday, May 28, 2021
  • | CYP Now
I want to start this blog with a quote from Francis of Assisi: “Start by doing what’s necessary; then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” - I think it’s what all of us working in children’s services do.

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