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Sector must influence the coalition

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 17, 2010
  • | CYP Now
They say that a week is a long time in politics. Quite. As predicted in these pages for many months, the new Tory Secretary of State Michael Gove has renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as the Department for Education.

Election result prolongs uncertainty

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 10, 2010
  • | CYP Now
At the time of writing -- on the historically uncertain afternoon of Friday 7 May -- the Conservatives were about to enter into negotiations with the Liberal Democrats about helping them to form a government.

Safe sex -- or healthy relationships?

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 26, 2010
  • | CYP Now
There seems to be some consternation about the dropping of compulsory sex and relationships education (SRE) from the new Children, Schools and Families Bill before it was pushed through Parliament.

Every Child Matters faces biggest test

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 19, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) pledged, in its annual report last week, to assess and build on the progress of Every Child Matters (ECM) for the next five years, as a policy priority for the coming 12 months. It is a good priority to hold, particularly given the uncertainty ahead.

New thinking needed to help young people who are Neet

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 12, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The Neets (not in education, employment or training) are back with a vengeance. Not a day goes by without media, expert or political coverage of the issue. Radio 4's Today programme recently gave it intensive and surprisingly inaccurate coverage, proclaiming the term had come into usage around 2003 (it was in fact 1996).

Tories must go beyond citizen service

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 12, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The Conservatives scored a PR coup in securing such a luminary as Michael Caine to launch their flagship youth policy, the National Citizen Service (NCS), to the electorate last week. Party leader David Cameron cited Gandhi - "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others" - among a flurry of uplifting soundbites to unveil the summer youth scheme for school leavers.

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.

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