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An alternative approach to helping looked-after children gain good grades

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 4, 2010
    • | CYP Now
When middle-class children fall behind at school, the parental response is often special tutoring. In London, tutoring for secondary school admission is a substantial industry, and in Birmingham almost all children being put in for grammar school tests are tutored. I'm not judging this, by the way, I was tutored (fruitlessly) for my French O-level; and we paid for extra music lessons whenever needed.

Gove gives joint working a rude jolt

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.

Tackle homelessness to end poverty

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 6, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The government's target to end child poverty becomes even more important in light of the number of children and young people who are homeless or live in sub-standard accommodation.

Opinion: Who carries the can when things go wrong in childsafeguarding?

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 12, 2014
    • | CYP Now
What did you think last month when you heard that the Prime Minister of South Korea had offered his resignation in the wake of the ferry disaster? I don't suppose anybody thought that the PM had been at the helm of the ship that sunk, or that he could personally be held to blame for any lapses in the training of supervision of the ferry. But the culture in South Korea expects that those in highest authority carry responsibility for anything that goes wrong.

The best education begins in the home

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 30, 2007
    • | CYP Now
A number of issues have converged for me in recent months. There was the Rowntree report on family relationships, and the Sutton Trust report on social mobility - or rather, the shocking lack of it. The German EU presidency culminated this summer in a congress on young people and strategies for social cohesion. And, just the other weekend, Lewis Hamilton came within a point of being crowned Formula One champion in his first season. This could almost be a quiz question: what is the connection?

Social workers must be prepared

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 22, 2010
    • | CYP Now
An alarming 93 per cent of social workers believe that new staff entering the profession lack the necessary skills to do the job properly.

Homeless teens enter the equation

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The numbers of looked-after children are on the rise as the recession takes its toll on families and social workers become more risk-averse in the aftermath of Baby P.

Editorial: The defiance of Sharon Shoesmith

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Haringey's former director of children's services has now told her side of the Baby P story. Strikingly, three months on, the ability to unequivocally say sorry still eludes Sharon Shoesmith in the interviews that surfaced last weekend.

Let's make allowances for the costs of fostering

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 9, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Almost all of us love our children - even though they are occasionally difficult, temperamental or just obstreperous. We love them for what they are, whether that includes abilities or disabilities, and we would not have it any other way. Of all I have done, I am proudest of my children and what they have achieved - although, of course, it was not just me!

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