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Broken Solutions
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Blogs
- Monday, January 13, 2020 | CYP Now
I hope you’ve all had a decent Christmas and New Year break. If you are an avid reader of these blogs (and who isn’t?) you’ll have read about Matt Dunkley’s version of a Christmas Carol, Rachel Dickinson’s Christmas wish list and Stuart Gallimore’s reflections on the gifts of Christmas. So, I suppose it should fall to me to talk about new year’s resolutions.
Moving forward together
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Blogs
- Friday, February 7, 2020 | CYP Now
Parents Against Child Exploitation (PACE) recently published a piece of research on the experiences of 31 parents and carers whose children have been sexually abused and exploited outside of the home and their experience of the services they came into contact with.
New term, new ministers, same priorities
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Blogs
- Friday, September 23, 2022 | CYP Now
I had the good fortune to go to the cricket last week at the Oval to watch England’s run chase (stay with me…) where I heard the sounds of a lone trumpeter sounding out Bon Jovi’s ‘Living on Prayer’.
Looking forward
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Blogs
- Friday, February 17, 2023 | CYP Now
As I write this, there has been a huge amount happening in children’s services over the past couple of weeks.
The increase in asylum-seeking children
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Blogs
- Friday, August 7, 2015 | CYP Now
There has been a lot of media coverage recently about the sharp increase in numbers of people arriving in Kent from French ports.
Don't forget our partners
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Blogs
- 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…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
Childhood really does matter in the year ahead
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Blogs
- Monday, April 8, 2024 | CYP Now
It only feels like a few weeks ago when I was writing my first blog as ADCS vice president, and here I am, twelve months later, with my first blog as ADCS president.
Devo, devo, devo…what’s in it for our families?
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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).
Levelling up…it’s not just about buildings and transport
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Blogs
- Friday, November 12, 2021 | CYP Now
Whilst thinking about a theme to focus on for this blog I started to reflect on the changing political and national policy context of the last couple of years.
Duty of optimism
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Blogs
- Monday, January 10, 2022 | CYP Now
Well, goodbye 2021, I can’t say that I am sad to see that year go.
The importance of determination in children’s social care
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Blogs
- Monday, April 11, 2022 | CYP Now
In preparing for this blog, I re-read Charlotte Ramsden’s final blog as ADCS President from last month, “time to pass the baton”.
Dare to lead
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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
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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.