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We must do more to support adolescents at risk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021
    • | CYP Now
In October, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (FJO) published a set of papers on the theme of adolescents in care proceedings that incorporated a blend of qualitative and quantitative studies, with one notable headline finding: the number of 10- to 17-year-olds subject to care proceedings rose by 95 per cent between 2011/12 and 2019/20.

Work together to hit poverty target

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 11, 2010
    • | CYP Now
We are now in 2010 and the long-held target to halve child poverty by this very year seems light-years away. Nevertheless, the Child Poverty Bill will soon come into law, committing government to eradicate child poverty by 2020.

Cuts could enhance joint working

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The party conference season is over and national politics is destined for a surreal few months in the run-up to the general election. Expect plenty more short-term children's policy announcements - some even eye- catching - as the main parties try to outmanoeuvre each other to strike a popular chord. Politics in Westminster will become increasingly sensationalised and polarised.

New adoption guidance should ease the strain

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 7, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The decision that a child cannot remain with his or her birth parents is life-changing. And it is always sensitive and difficult, with some sections of the press talking as though social workers are deliberately and callously ripping families apart.

Never mind the inspectorate, recruit the right inspectors

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 18, 2011
    • | CYP Now
On the face of it, the education select committee's call to split Ofsted into two separate inspectorates for education and children's care would represent a further step away from services centred on the needs of the whole child. It is a trend played out in several areas through the disappearance of children's trust arrangements and local authority children's services departments.

Policy into practice - Child trafficking

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
THE ISSUE: Child trafficking is the movement of young people through abduction, deception or force, for exploitation. Children and young people have been found sold into prostitution, drug smuggling, domestic slavery, and forced marriages, with little means of getting help.

Traveller families require mobile solutions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 29, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Traveller children in the UK are among the most disadvantaged of all groups. In terms of education, Ofsted estimates up to 12,000 teenagers from Traveller families are not enrolled in school. For those who do attend, the picture is far from perfect.

Policy into practice - Children of prisoners

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 18, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The government estimates that around 150,000 children a year in England and Wales have a parent imprisoned - higher than the number of children who see their parents divorce. Despite this, the issue is not well recognised and there is a need for more support and provision to help families separated by prison.

Honesty needed on level of user voice influence

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2022
    • | CYP Now
For anyone involved in policy development or service delivery it has become essential to consider the views of those with direct experience when deciding what to do and how to do it. But it isn’t straightforward to achieve meaningful engagement.

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