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Children with cancer need tailored support
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Opinion
- Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | CYP Now
The systems that seek to support children and young people with cancer and their families are failing them.
Time for new thinking on custody for children
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Opinion
- Friday, June 21, 2024 | CYP Now
Whomever the new youth justice minister turns out to be, there are some issues about the future of custody that ought to be in their inbox.
Scrapping benefit cap could turn tables on child poverty
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Opinion
- Thursday, June 20, 2024 | CYP Now
There has been a predictable absence of debate or discussion about child poverty in the general election campaign.
Involving families is key to solving youth violence
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Opinion
- Thursday, June 20, 2024 | CYP Now
Imagine, for a moment, the unimaginable pain of a family whose child has been the victim of violence or exploitation.
Tackling false economies in child services
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Opinion
- Wednesday, May 22, 2024 | CYP Now
I am writing this while rushing to finish work before going on holiday. I know this is a false economy because most things can wait until I’m back, when I’m refreshed; when I will do them better and quicker.
Time to deliver Care Review reforms
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Opinion
- Wednesday, May 22, 2024 | CYP Now
On 23 May, 2022, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care was published, a government-commissioned report into how the children’s social care system could work better for everyone involved, but especially the children in it.
Next government must prioritise children
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Opinion
- Wednesday, May 22, 2024 | CYP Now
The challenges facing this country’s children have grown enormously in recent years. Life is just too hard for too many children.
School mental health plans need an update
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Opinion
- Sunday, April 28, 2024 | CYP Now
The idea for mental health support teams (MHSTs) to bridge the gap between school counselling services and specialist therapeutic support in the community came out of the children’s mental health green paper published in 2017 by Theresa May’s government. Plans to introduce MHSTs in a third of schools and colleges by 2023 and to half by 2025 were confirmed the following summer.
Schools must focus on building local relationships
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Opinion
- Sunday, April 28, 2024 | CYP Now
I’ve been talking with education leaders about inclusion and one of the challenges of the current school context that they identified was that attitudes and relationships between parents, children and schools have changed since the pandemic.
Funded childcare should prioritise quality
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Opinion
- Sunday, April 28, 2024 | CYP Now
In the ever-evolving landscape of early years education, a pressing issue looms large: the 30-hour funding policy and its repercussions.
Tired remedies won’t end youth knife crime
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Opinion
- Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | CYP Now
There is no doubt that knife crime among young people is rising again, after a dip during the pandemic. In the year ending March 2023, there were 50,500 offences involving a sharp instrument, up by 73 per cent since 2015.
Protect youth work by enacting statutory duty
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Opinion
- Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | CYP Now
When statutory agencies failed to intervene when young girls were being sexually abused by gangs of men in Rochdale it was youth workers who raised the alarm.
Put ‘home’ at the heart of solving homelessness
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Opinion
- Sunday, March 24, 2024 | CYP Now
In the last five years, 55 children have died while living in temporary accommodation, 42 of whom were under a year old.
The silent struggle of asylum-seeking children
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Opinion
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | CYP Now
In the heart of the debate surrounding the Safety of Rwanda Bill and amidst the heated discussions on immigration policy, it’s critical that we keep our attention firmly on the vulnerable children and young people seeking refuge within our borders.
Banning phones will not make children safer
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Opinion
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | CYP Now
We are all aware that mobile phones with access to the internet are now used by most children and young people. However, whether children are on or offline they participate in risk-taking behaviours to experiment and to establish their self-identity especially through the adolescent years.
Let’s humanise the language of children’s services
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Opinion
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | CYP Now
I want to start with a story about language that highlights how commonly used phrases of a previous era can age badly when viewed through today’s eyes.
Reward longevity to retain and attract childcare staff
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Opinion
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | CYP Now
It is good news that the Department for Education has now launched a national campaign promoting childcare careers. It follows years of lobbying for such a measure from early education organisations.
'Unfit’ asylum transfer scheme needs an overhaul
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Opinion
- Sunday, January 28, 2024 | CYP Now
In 2015, during my ADCS presidency, we set up the voluntary transfer scheme for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) because Kent was becoming overwhelmed by the numbers requiring care.
Charter sets out a ‘just’ offer for children
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Opinion
- Sunday, January 28, 2024 | CYP Now
In 2010, the then coalition government announced the introduction of a triple lock for our senior citizens – a commitment to uprate the state pension every year in line with whichever is highest of earnings growth, inflation, or 2.5 per cent.
Remembering a ‘compassionate and radical’ leader
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Opinion
- Sunday, January 28, 2024 | CYP Now
While there are many things that can be said about Camila Batmanghelidjh, who died in January, few could question her fierce determination and spirit to raising and keeping the needs of young people on the agenda. We shall miss her voice and the sector will miss her courage.
Councils need bigger budgets, not handouts
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Opinion
- Sunday, January 28, 2024 | CYP Now
The £600m of extra funding to ease the pressures facing local authorities is the latest example of the government being forced to bail out financially stricken councils.
Statutory guidance gives us ‘permission’ to practice
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Opinion
- Wednesday, January 3, 2024 | CYP Now
A line by poet Oliver Wendell Holmes – “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions” – feels apt when considering the guidance that governs local authority functions and responsibilities to vulnerable children and families.
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