Emerging from the festive period to a media diet of fires, floods and yet another flashpoint in the Middle East doesn’t do much for the Monday morning mood. And that’s before grappling with the more mundane issues of overpriced, overcrowded trains and any snow in the forecast simply being a sludgy inconvenience rather than a seasonal sprinkling. So, what is there to look forward to? Here are my top five silver linings.
When services shut down and people were asked to stay home due to Covid-19, children’s services in Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster were paused… but very quickly a new model of service delivery was developed.
To mark Empathy Day (9 June), we launched our Standing Tall for Early Years campaign – with a call for all early years settings across the UK to join together in planting sunflower seeds with children and celebrate the sector’s move towards a fresh new chapter – especially after a turbulent few months.
Residential child care expert Jonathan Stanley outlines what providers of children's homes and other residential settings need to do if there is a confirmed case of coronavirus.
Lockdown has impacted on everyone in the UK, regardless of age, gender, class, financial status: we have all found ourselves in situations we have never experienced before.
As the Chancellor was setting out his spending plans for the year ahead this week, including his pledge to ‘level up’ investment in the north of England, I and many others were hearing about the hopes, fears and expectations of people living in the north at the People’s Powerhouse convention.