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Education is the antidote to racism

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The bear-baiting of British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin in his recent appearance on Question Time did nothing to advance race relations in our country.

Should we train for life or for Tesco?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
First we had the concept of McJobs and now we have the possibility of Tescolifications. The Most Admired Business Leader of 2005, the chief executive of Tesco Sir Terry Leahy has waded into the contemporary education debate.

Keep the uniforms away from youth work

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Just when custody officers in young offender institutions are dressing down - into more relaxed trousers and track suit tops, from their previous quasi-military attire - so I notice that more and more youth services are requiring their workers dress in distinctive uniforms proclaiming their identity, if not their status.

Cut traffic speed to make cycling safer

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
When I was about 10 a car came around the corner of a quiet country lane and knocked me flying off my bicycle. Fortunately, I went into the hedge and the bike went into the middle of the road.

Cuts could enhance joint working

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The party conference season is over and national politics is destined for a surreal few months in the run-up to the general election. Expect plenty more short-term children's policy announcements - some even eye- catching - as the main parties try to outmanoeuvre each other to strike a popular chord. Politics in Westminster will become increasingly sensationalised and polarised.

It can be better to text than to talk

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 28, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) research on positive activities released at the end of August made for interesting reading. Back in March, the DCSF conducted interviews with 72 pairs of young people aged between 13 and 19. The purpose of the research was to understand the motivators and barriers to young people participating in positive activities, and to find the most effective ways in encouraging young people to participate.

Generational respect works both ways

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 22, 2009
    • | CYP Now
British society worships at the altar of the young. Lord Heseltine, the former deputy Prime Minister, attracted a great deal of publicity for this statement in a recent speech.

Focus of spending must be balanced

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 8, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's official: the UK spends more money on child welfare and education than the average market economy. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report out last week, we spend just over 90,000 per child from birth to 18 compared to an OECD average among 30 member countries of just under 80,000.

Why earning doesn't live up to learning

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
There is a growing tension between political exhortations to young people to study longer and harder and young people's own experiences of disappointment and frustration about the pay-off from that investment.

Spend on the service, not the name

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
When we brought youth workers and personal advisers together to create a new service for young people we stopped for a moment to consider what it should be called.

The young volunteer army saving us millions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Over the summer holidays I've had the privilege of working alongside more than 50 enthusiastic teenagers. These young people, who gave up their own time voluntarily, were helping to provide fun and memorable activities for hundreds of younger children. They sang, played sports, danced, did art and craft activities, and even got voted into a gunge tank on some occasions.

Break the shackles of New Labour's policy

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
As youth workers struggle with their target-driven agendas, they can take heart from the gathering backlash against the New Labour project for public services - and the high-profile names it is attracting.

Super centres must learn from pioneers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Since reopening in 2002, Bolton Lads & Girls Club has been heralded as the model 21st-century youth club. Boasting a state-of-the-art sports hall, a performing arts studio and many other facilities, it has come to personify the super youth club.

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.

Policy into practice - Extracurricular activities

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 11, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: Demonstrating soft skills, such as decision making, relationship building, problem solving and teamwork, can really help to boost a young person's employment prospects. Former Health Secretary Alan Milburn's recent report into social mobility says that in order to help narrow the attainment gap between young people from different social backgrounds, schools should provide a range of extracurricular activities.

Iran exposes our youth policy dilemmas

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 28, 2009
    • | CYP Now
A youth and community work course for which I was an external examiner required students to undertake the following assignment: "Freedom, without discipline, is anarchy. Discipline, without freedom, is tyranny. You have to find the path between the two." Discuss, with particular reference to youth work.

Last Word: Face the fear of weekend opening

    Opinion
  • Friday, July 24, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Great youth workers are fearless. Not reckless. That is something altogether different. But fearless. It's described in the dictionary as being audacious, intrepid and hardy. And it's a big part of the way they do their job.

The old youth work mottos still ring true

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Sometimes we can be inclined to reject the quaint statements that kicked off various youth organisations as suited only for historical archives rather than as a basis for informing contemporary thinking about youth work philosophy and practice. But we do so at our peril.

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