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Youth employment is key to revival

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The outstandingly depressing budget of 2009 has left children's services in limbo, braced for the tightest of public spending squeezes and a likely change of government.

Wild wastelands should be scenes of fun

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The swathes of land that were once the industrial heartlands of Britain, now reclaimed by nature, offer a fantastic adventure playground for children and young people. The communities that grew up surrounded by coal and steel now have wild parklands on their doorstep.

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.

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.

Too much, too young for teen parents

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, April 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Too much has already been written about Alfie Patten. When the story of the "boy dad" broke, it quickly became The Sun's most popular online article ever. It recorded 3.9 million unique visitors in just one day - more than double the previous high of 1.6 million.

Break down the wall of ignorance

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, April 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's disappointing to hear of examples where the role of youth work is overlooked and under-appreciated. But sadly all too often this still is the case.

You can't define an entire generation

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 31, 2009
    • | CYP Now
In current political debates, academic literature and media coverage, there is a risk of becoming convinced that young people are characterised by under-achievement, teenage pregnancy, mental ill-health, criminality, homelessness and substance misuse.

Policy into practice Litter and recycling

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 31, 2009
    • | CYP Now
THE ISSUE: April is traditionally time for a thorough spring clean. But with mounting landfills it is important to look for environmentally friendly ways of parting with our rubbish.

Wounds still healing in Northern Ireland

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 24, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The Real IRA and the Continuity IRA claimed responsibility for the recent murders of soldiers and a police officer in Northern Ireland. But as they are perceived to be destabilising the peace settlement, it is important to hold on to the phenomenal progress that has been made in the province since the darkest days of the Troubles.

When Fred Goodwin steered clear of risk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
As young people walk into my cottage in north Wales, they see a poster of the ocean with a solitary boat tossing on the waves. On it there are the following words: "A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships were built for." My view of youth work is that it is quintessentially about "pushing the boat out", stretching young people's imagination, competence and experience beyond their comfort zones but not so far as to engender panic (and thereby cause them to retreat back to the safety of where they came from). For me, that is the fundamental skill of the youth worker in dealing with both the mental and physical activities of young people. When executed effectively, young people come to understand and consider risk and make informed choices accordingly.

Youth workers in hospital fill a void

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I've become rather hardened to youth work projects. After writing about the youth sector for more than six years, it takes a lot for a project to really stand out from the crowd.

Let teenagers learn from their mistakes

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I recently read an online discussion between two youth workers. Although both held similar faith-based youth work roles, they had very different opinions about teenagers and how best to work with them.

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.

Policy into practice Learning outside the classroom

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 24, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: Despite research which shows that a varied, adventurous approach to teaching stimulates different senses and can enhance young people's learning, most young people's educational experiences remain confined to the classroom.

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