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Plenty on the horizon

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  • Tuesday, April 19, 2022
  • | CYP Now
I am pleased and proud to continue to chair the ADCS Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee.

Receiving the baton at full pace

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  • Tuesday, April 5, 2022
  • | CYP Now
By the time that you read this, the machinery of ADCS will have worked its magic and the baton that Charlotte handed over to me in her last blog will be firmly gripped in my paws.

Social work and you

    Blogs
  • Friday, March 18, 2022
  • | CYP Now
We’re coming to the end of Social Work Week, with its theme: ‘Social Work and Me’.

The political energy of our young people

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  • Tuesday, March 15, 2022
  • | CYP Now
It’s not often that I feel energised and inspired on a wet Monday night in February, but that was exactly how I was left feeling recently after watching the results of Derby’s Youth Mayor elections.

Leaders of steel

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  • Monday, March 7, 2022
  • | CYP Now
It’s a sobering realisation to know that I started to learn some of the fundamentals of economics in the heady time of the 1980s!

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.

The challenges and expectations of the social worker role

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  • Monday, February 14, 2022
  • | CYP Now
I can’t have been the only director of children’s services who was saddened and disappointed at the targeting of social workers and colleague directors following the recent tragic deaths of children at the hands of their parents who should love and care for them.

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