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Will sanctions or support ward off trouble?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008
    • | CYP Now
One element of the "triple track" response in the new Youth Taskforce Action Plan is the idea of non-negotiable support. Some will immediately baulk at the concept: surely support has to be wanted to be effective?

Youth work always comes at a price

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 31, 2008
    • | CYP Now
There's nothing more terrifying than a 16-year-old with a calculator. Trust me. We've got one. He's our new youth council finance manager. Elected last month and already taking a very close look at our spending.

Viewpoint - The outmoded label of 'child' still prevails

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 31, 2008
    • | CYP Now
A young man recently asked me why I was still involved with "youths" at the grand old age of 52. I replied that apart from receiving a decent salary for doing this job, I still believe that he and his mates get a rough deal and need people like me to help stand up for them.

Commissioner for Wales is up to the challenge

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It was an "exceedingly drawn-out" appointments process, according to one Welsh politician. But Keith Towler came through the interviews, both with young people and politicians, to secure the position of children's commissioner for Wales, just under a year after the untimely death of his predecessor Peter Clarke.

Not all of the youth workers come from Mars

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 11, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Some youth workers are from Venus and others are from Mars. You may not get the reference to a famous book on gender but the point remains that there are two kinds of exponents of something both camps call youth work but they clearly do not operate under the same canvas.

Just don't mention the Olympics

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 6, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It came as news to me that as soon as the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Games is over and done with, we will commence our "Cultural Olympiad".

Viewpoint - Still forced to think national, not local

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 6, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Youth workers have long known that young people don't organise their lives to fit government priorities or local service structures. The group that hangs round the off-licence would prefer to have a place to make music. That includes the young man who has had various scrapes with the law but desperately wants work, and the pupil who is bunking-off school because she is being bullied for being overweight.

Editorial - The battle for funding won't go away

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 6, 2008
    • | CYP Now
At a time when young people are politically a high priority and unprecedented levels of money have been promised to the youth sector, it's disappointing to hear that many of the old struggles for funding remain.

Editorial: Role models' foolishness is a sobering thought

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 26, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Alcohol is big news at the moment. Barely a day goes by without a national newspaper or radio phone-in devoting ample coverage to pore over the state of "Binge Britain", with the focus frequently on young people's excessive drinking.

Let's protect youth work's distinctiveness

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 26, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"When youth work has been absorbed into a number of new initiatives trying to do all this targeted and focused work, particularly with young people considered to be at risk, somebody is going to come to me in twenty years' time and ask what 'youth work' was, and when I tell them, they will say 'we need it back'".

The emotional cost of economic migration

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 19, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Three generations ago many families in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly those in the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, were torn apart, not just by war, but by mass deportations to other parts of the Soviet Union. Today, within the European Union, similar patterns and practices are taking place, though they are not based on compulsion, but are at least on some level voluntary; even if this is a product of economic need.

Universal and targeted armies wage war

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 12, 2008
    • | CYP Now
I was asked the other day where I stood on striking the balance between universal and targeted provision in youth work. I smiled at the juxtaposition. Such a stark division has caused a lot of argument, heartache and grief at ideological and political levels, and in policy and practice. It allows for the drawing up of battle lines: on the one side, those advocating value for money and reaching those somehow objectively assessed as most "in need", on the other, those espousing open doors, thus enabling responsiveness to all forms of "need" as subjectively expressed.

Editorial: Inherent dangers lurk in staying safe plan

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 12, 2008
    • | CYP Now
With the publication of the Staying Safe Action Plan last week, the government has been at pains not to be seen to wrap children up in cotton wool. In presentation terms, the document's front cover depicts children happily participating in watersports, climbing and running. Meanwhile, the Department for Children, Schools and Families' press notice on the safety plan leads heavily on the proposal to encourage teachers to take pupils on outdoor school trips by providing advice and diminishing bureaucracy.

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