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Bringing the Future Forward –...
Jane Parfrement, Chief Executive of The Staff College, who leads a consortium of partners delivering the upon Aspirant and New DCS programme,...
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The complexity and the cost
Three weeks on from our ADCS conference in Manchester and I am still feeling a sense of positivity from the experience of the week. Amongst the...
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Change, Challenges, and Chances
Following the recent ADCS conference I thought I’d use this blog to reflect on the strength of ADCS as an organisation and how we can continue...
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Hidden Workforce
Like every Director of Children’s Services, I expect, I have been immersed in the run of policy papers emerging the from the Department for...
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Where have all the workers gone?
Is it me, is it the South-East, but have all the workers disappeared? And when I ask where have all the workers gone, I am not just meaning...
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At what point do you stop being an...
Having just celebrated my 6th anniversary as Manchester’s Director of Children’s Services (DCS) (do I qualify as ‘experienced’?) and...
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Dare to lead…
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...
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Standing shoulder to shoulder with...
There are over 150,000 children growing up in kinship care in England today, and with the publication of the Independent Review of Children’s...
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The power of our Association
This blog was first due a couple of weeks ago, but the small matter of an ILACs inspection diverted my attention. I can confirm that spending...
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A role like no other
I find myself writing this blog at a strange time – two days before I am due to leave Northumberland County Council to take up the Director of...
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