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In partial defence of Connexions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 25, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Since Alan Milburn's report on social mobility and its well-publicised attack on Connexions, the debate about the merits and drawbacks of the youth support service has become open warfare.

It's time for us to be treated as professionals

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2007
    • | CYP Now
There are some perennial weeds in the youth work garden. Unless they are removed, the aspirations the government has declared for young people will wither away. The obstacles to growth relate to workforce issues.

Super-size kids vs super-size nannyism

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2009
    • | CYP Now
We've all got our memories, rarely charitable, of school dinners. We've probably also got our memories of how we dodged the stodge, with or without our parents' consent. I saved for my first guitar by doing without for a term. I am not quite sure what I actually lived on.

Give youth work freedom to deliver

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
A campaign is brewing to tackle the feeling that policymakers are strangling the life out of youth work. It has been sparked by an open letter by social commentator Tony Taylor, In Defence of Youth Work.

Teenagers' tarnished image can be rebuilt

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It's been a tough year for Britain's youth. It started with the front cover of Time magazine featuring a menacing young man wearing a hooded top, superimposed with a Union Jack flag. The cover star represented Britain's youth who are, claimed the US publication, "unhappy, unloved and out of control".

A stab in the back for Connexions

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 13, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Local Government Association (LGA) last week issued research purporting to show the overwhelming majority of young people find formal careers advice only "a little bit" or "not at all" helpful.

Guidance is vital to turn youth policy into action

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 9, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Nine months after its conception last March, the government's youth policy arrived into this world six days before Christmas, not exactly kicking and screaming and without much fanfare. Positive for Youth was born after what seemed an interminable but thoroughgoing consultation with the youth sector and young people alike.

Help small charities prove their worth

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 29, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Teens and Toddlers programme featured this week has managed to build up a solid evidence base of its effectiveness in helping young people, giving it the opportunity to expand across the UK.

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.

Don't let the crunch crush young hopes

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 24, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I heard the other day a very striking and rather sad fact from an expert in social demography: the section of the youth population who will bear the brunt of the current recession are largely the children of the young people who suffered disproportionately from recession of the 1980s. We may sometimes bemoan the generational continuity of unemployment through apparent cultures of benefit dependency but here we have a situation where unemployment is structurally conferred. As swathes of employers shed labour, it is younger, less qualified and more expendable employees who are first to be laid off. And those who were last in, first out during the days of The Specials' Ghost Town will see their children going through the same experiences.

Children's charities need clarity on support package

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Like families, households and businesses across the country, charities are feeling more than just the pinch when confronted with the significantly increasing costs of keeping vital services running, every day.

No such thing as involuntary youth work

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 22, 2009
    • | CYP Now
When I first meet a young person, I tell them it is their choice whether or not to get involved with the project. They are free to walk away without consequences. This "voluntary principle" is fundamental to youth work. We compensate for their lack of power by offering them a choice. This is the main thing that sets us apart from teachers, social workers and probation officers.

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