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Holiday hunger
I wanted to share with you some amazing work that has had a huge impact in Nottingham over the summer months, but I am obviously saddened by the...
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Listen closer
I don’t know about you, but I find that sometimes there’s an alignment between the things I’m thinking about at work and themes that emerge...
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What's in a name?
Language is so important, it affects the way we see people and situations and great examples are seen in the language used in the care system....
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Working with our elected members
We all care passionately about children’s services. We know the ins and outs, the policy and the legal detail. Sometimes it’s easy to...
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Listening to our young people
A few weeks ago in Hertfordshire, we were really pleased to be one of the areas visited as part of the LGA/ISOS review of statutory guidance for...
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A spending round that works for all...
Next week, the Chancellor, Sajid Javid, will announce spending plans for public services for the next 12-months. There has been much speculation...
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Putting the ‘corporate’ into...
We all know how important it is to be a good corporate parent and in Derby, probably like in every upper tier local authority, we’ve been...
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Working together to prevent suicide
I recently chaired a workshop on suicide prevention at the ADCS annual conference. This focus was a little unusual for us but it was specifically...
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562 years to close the gap…
As chair of the ADCS Educational Achievement Committee I was asked last week to sign off our press statement on the recently published Education...
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Measuring our success
As I write this, the political merry go round is in full swing and the former Children’s Minister, Nadhim Zahawhi, has taken up a new role as...
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