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Residential trips are a priceless commodity

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  • Monday, August 4, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. It is a maxim that could be applied to most of the services for children and young people today - being able to do more with less is a key requirement for any chief executive, middle manager or frontline practitioner.

Richmond and Kingston plot combined social enterprise

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  • Monday, June 27, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Richmond's director of children's services has hailed plans to change his department into a pioneering joint social enterprise with Kingston Council as an opportunity for the authorities to expand and improve provision for local families.

Our children's services need an institute for excellence

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
    • | CYP Now
I've attended dozens of meetings and presentations about how children's services could and should be improved. Almost none of this has had any lasting impact. I've come to the view that we need something like the National Institute for National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) in the NHS, a National Institute for Children's Services Excellence that would promote best practice, with professional authority and based on the evidence. This conclusion is driven by the recognition that nothing else has worked.

SEN checks must focus on local progress, not just crude ratings

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  • Tuesday, February 3, 2015
    • | CYP Now
The disability and special educational needs reforms, with joined-up education, health and care plans at their heart, are finally starting to bite. They make complete sense to me, with a far greater focus on children's strengths rather than their weaknesses, and a requirement that professionals will work together as a team to wrap support around the family.

Supporting young fathers to succeed

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  • Tuesday, February 2, 2016
    • | CYP Now
London project the Young Dads Collective is helping vulnerable fathers play a more active role in their children's upbringing and become role models to look up to. Charlotte Santry investigates.

Schools need proper scrutiny to guard against malpractice

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  • Tuesday, April 12, 2016
    • | CYP Now
One of the problems of democracy is that leaders have views on many issues, and citizens don't always agree with all of the policies of "their" party or their government. So, I find myself supporting the principle of the new national funding formula for schools while deeply opposing the academisation programme.

Special Report: Children's Mental Health

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  • Tuesday, July 5, 2016
    • | CYP Now
The Future in Mind national strategy and £1.4bn in funding is seeing a reorganisation of children's mental health services that is aiming to transform the outcomes of children and young people.

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