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Can social investment really change the world?

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 6, 2012
  • | CYP Now
"There are few moments like this when something happens that can really change the world". That was the proclamation of Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude last summer as plans gathered pace to develop the UK market for social investment. Was he going a bit over the top? Perhaps; but only perhaps.

Ghosts of Labour system are very much present

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 23, 2012
  • | CYP Now
After a great deal of deliberation and consultation, the Department for Education has at last pumped out the latest governmental aspirations for young people in England. Released last month, Positive for Youth was quite rightly praised in this space by Maggie Atkinson a fortnight ago.

The script can be judged only by its performance

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 9, 2012
  • | CYP Now
One week into the new year and here at the office we are back and already trying to remember what - however briefly - not being at work was like. We are still digesting a flurry of consultation materials issued by government in the run-up to the break, wondering what to say, and more importantly what to do, in response.

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.

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