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It’s ok to be ok

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  • Monday, June 28, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Whilst I am reluctant to continue to focus on the pandemic, as we progress along the roadmap and are tantalisingly close to the end of national restrictions, I find myself once again reflecting on the impact of the past year or so on our children and young people.

A juggling act

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  • Monday, June 21, 2021
    • | CYP Now
In the week that “Freedom Day” was delayed for a month, almost as if it were a DfE policy announcement, I was struck by what we are currently juggling as DCSs and the amazing reach and complexity of our statutory roles.

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’.

Who loves this child?

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  • Monday, June 7, 2021
    • | CYP Now
This needs to be the starting point of everything we do in children’s services. I don’t want to see love defined, pulled apart or being put in legislation.

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.

Getting it right in the early years

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  • 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.

The joy of spring

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  • Monday, April 26, 2021
    • | CYP Now
It’s a running joke that the government’s seasons don’t necessarily tally with the standard pattern that we’re all accustomed to.

Time for reflection

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  • Monday, April 19, 2021
    • | CYP Now
As spring rolls in and the sun shines brightly, lockdown restrictions are beginning to lift and we move nervously into our new normal, I thought it provided an opportunity for reflection.

Thinking about equity and fairness

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  • Friday, April 9, 2021
    • | CYP Now
I read an interesting and detailed report recently by the Education Policy Institute, along with the Nuffield Foundation, on social mobility and vulnerable learners.

Why does social work have the word 'social' in it?

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  • Friday, March 19, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Whether it was because parents are worn out from caring for their children at home 24/7 or because children were desperate to see their friends again face-to-face, or both, we had some of the highest primary school attendance rates in Essex following the return to school on 8 March.

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