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From the Frontline - Reflecting on over 35 years of youthwork

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2007
    • | CYP Now
I've just compiled a newsletter for voluntary youth organisations in Warwickshire focusing on the Government's 10-year strategy for positive activities. I'm due to retire in December after 35 years of involvement in youth work, so I smugly reflected on this latest in a long line of government missives and breathed a sigh of relief that it wouldn't affect me.

A wall remains for many young Berliners

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2009
    • | CYP Now
As the great and the good gathered by the Brandenburg Gate on 9 November to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was a time for both active celebration and more poignant reflection.

Editorial: This cycle of hate does children no good

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The outburst of vitriol towards social workers emanating from some of the media and online message boards in the wake of Baby P has been comparable in tone to the daily demonisation of young people. They don't need to be repeated here. It is the tone of hate. The Sun newspaper has whipped up a bloodthirsty witch-hunt, inciting readers to sign an online petition for all the Haringey workers involved to be sacked. It's as if identifying and punishing those culpable would somehow resolve the problem and bring closure.

The evidence is there, but it is difficult to see

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 21, 2011
    • | CYP Now
There was once a rather intimidating youth service inspector whose opening question was invariably: "What do you achieve?" Some colleagues, in anticipation of his visit and this question, constructed elaborate unit plans setting out their intended "outcomes", while others blagged an answer on the spot.

Youth unemployment: the solutions exist

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 3, 2011
    • | CYP Now
We have seen the headlines screaming at us that one in five young people are jobless, that youth unemployment has hit a "record high" and that the problem is now a "national crisis".

The reinvention of the Woodcraft Folk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I have always had a deep affection for the Woodcraft Folk. Though often considered rather quaint in recent years, and a little unfairly associated with pixies dressed in green tunics dancing around a fire in the woods, it was a youth organisation that pioneered work around internationalism, environment, participation, democracy and peace.

Less money, but much more purpose

    Opinion
  • Friday, June 4, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Association of Directors of Children's Services' (ADCS) policy paper, which outlines some priorities to Education Secretary Michael Gove, is compelling and constructive in how the sector can do more with less while meeting government objectives.

Can good services remain standing?

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 21, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Like the suffocating drone of vuvuzelas, cuts continue to dominate the atmosphere in the children's services arena and in public services more generally.

Sir Philip Green right to propose centralised approach

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 25, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Sir Philip Green has spotted that the government is inefficient. It buys laptops and paper for wildly different and inflated prices, and manages its property portfolio appallingly. He proposes centralisation, and who could argue against that? A central agency could distribute supplies much more cheaply than every business unit buying their own.

Six reasons to support, not condemn, young people

    Opinion
  • Thursday, October 19, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The number of young people killed this year has already surpassed the total for the whole of 2022. When lives are taken in such a way, it becomes easy to vilify or hang the blame somewhere in the search of answers.

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