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When high finance fails it affects us all

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The few hundred pounds that can be so important to a local youth project might appear to have very little connection with the multi-billion pound dealings about which we have become accustomed to reading over the past few months.

Weekend working comes at a price

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I don't know how true it ever was, but over the years, youth and community work lecturers have often reported to me the first-year students who are keen to do the work but unwilling to work in the evening.

Policy into practice: Myplace youth centre grants

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: High-quality, attractive places for young people to go to are critical in our efforts to create inspirational activities for them, raise their aspirations and improve their wellbeing. Construction of world-class youth centres also contributes to reducing antisocial behaviour.

The Myplace fund is a missed opportunity

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Much has been made about the transformative effect the Myplace fund will have on youth facilities in England, yet little has been said about whether this is truly the best way to spend this money.

Informal educators or bureaucrats and spies?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"Not another bloody form!" says Patricia when I give her the paperwork required for a girls' project. "Oh no!" groans Jerome in exasperation when handed several pages of monitoring forms at the end of a film project.

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".

Small interventions make a big difference

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"My electric wheelchair blew up yesterday ... the bus driver wouldn't put down the ramps for my other wheelchair, and that's difficult to drive because I've got a frozen shoulder ... I've got to go into hospital to have an injection to loosen it up ... oh, and I've probably got to have another operation on my spine ... and last week a pipe burst in my flat and flooded the living room ... and my mum's not well ... "

Teenage fathers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The government launched a campaign earlier this month called Think Fathers to dispel the myth that dads are the invisible parent.

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.

Obama offers hope to a whole generation

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 11, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The victory of a black man in the race to secure the most powerful position in the world must carry huge resonance and messages for everybody from minority groups, oppressed ethnic backgrounds and religious persuasions that are not within the mainstream of the country concerned.

Recognition of youth work is long overdue

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
    • | CYP Now
This week is Youth Work Week (1-7 November). Co-ordinated by The National Youth Agency, this annual event aims to explain and celebrate youth work and highlight its contribution to the development of young people.

A moving parting gift from young offenders

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008
    • | CYP Now
As my board membership of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) was coming to an end last month, I paid a final visit to Her Majesty's Young Offender Institution Parc, near Bridgend.

What we need is a trusting society, Darling

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"What I want to avoid is getting ourselves in a position governments have done in the past where you face an immediate problem and cut back on things the country will need in the future," Chancellor Alistair Darling said last weekend.

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